I wasn’t planning on having cupcake toppers for Ada’s first birthday but after all of the baking and decorating and meticulous preening on a little event that only I would appreciate the details, I made these.

They came together so quickly and used up things I already had in my kitchen or craft box. But honestly I think I was just inspired by my really cute tube of wrapping paper. I’m pretty googly-eyed for watercolor anything these days. But any type of wrapping paper would look just as cute!

You will need:

Festive wrapping paper pieces, cut about 1” X 3”

Store-bought or homemade flowers

Paper straws

toothpicks

glue gun

scissors

Cut paper straws in thirds. Cut little rectangles from the wrapping paper, glue and fold around the straws.

If using flowers then glue flowers directly on top of straws.

For miniature teepees glue four toothpicks together and wrap and glue with small pieces of wrapping paper.