5 Thank You Teacher Cupcake Topper Tutorials

Form a marble sized piece of yellow modelling paste.

Roll the modelling paste into a tube. TOP TIP : A cake smoother helps ensure an even and smooth tube.

Use a cone modelling tool to create a hole in one end of the tube. Flatten the other end.

Stick a small white tube on the flattened end for the rubber. Again, a smoother will help to make it the same width as your pencil.

If you have a gap between the rubber and the pencil you can fill it with a small yellow tube of modelling paste.

Stick this around the pencil, filling the gap. Use a smoother to neaten.

Colour some modelling paste grey.

Roll out your grey modelling paste and cut out a strip. Make sure it’s the width you need by checking it against your pencil. Stick it to your pencil, by wrapping around where the rubber and pencil join. Trim to fit.

You can create a design if you like. I used a blade tool to do this.

Next, form a small piece of beige modelling paste into a diamond shape. Make sure one end is longer than the other, as can be seen above.

Stick the shorter end into the premade hole. Now, make a tiny hole in the visible pointed end.

Finally, add a little more graphite colour to your grey modelling paste until you reach a lead colour. Stick a tiny ball into the premade hole and make it pointed with your fingers.

Form a small piece of blue modelling paste into a rectangle shape. A cake smoother can help to achieve a smooth even shape.

Use your thumbs to create the finger indents on either side of the rectangle.

Use the scriber end of a knife and scriber tool to create a hole to one side of the shape, as can be seen above. Turn the tool into the paste as you create the hole.

Cut a small strip of grey modelling paste and stick it onto the pencil sharpener, as can be seen above.

Use a blade tool to mark an indent along the left side of the grey strip.

Form a small ball of grey modelling paste and stick it onto the pencil sharpener, as can be seen above. Flatten with your fingers.

Use a knife tool to mark a line indent in the screw.

If you need to adjust the shape, place the sharpener back onto to the scriber and adjust with your fingers.

Use a blade tool to mark grip lines on either side of the pencil sharpener.

Roll out your modelling paste and cut out an A4 shape. I used a square cutter to do this and then just cut a strip off one side. This needs to be left to dry out overnight, so it’s hard enough to write on.

Use the red pen to mark a red line down the edge of the shape. I used a cake smoother as a ruler. Leave to dry.

Use a blue pen and cake smoother to draw lines across the shape. Leave to dry.

Roll a piece of yellow modelling paste into a marble sized ball.

Form the ball into a tube. Again, the cake smoother will help to achieve a smooth even finish.

Flatten one end and form a point on the other.

Use a blade tool to create a ridge around the bottom edge of the pointed end.

Make a thin flat strip of black modelling paste.

Stick this around the top and bottom of the crayon. Trim to fit.

Flatten the pointed end slightly.

To make the paper, cut out a white square of modelling paste. Leave this to dry overnight, so it’s hard enough to draw on.

Roll out the black modelling paste and cut out two squares. Leave them to dry overnight.

To make the frame, roll out the beige modelling paste and cut out a square the same size as the black one.

Next, use a smaller square cutter to cut out the middle of the shape. Repeat to make a second frame.

Stick these onto your black squares, as can be seen above.

Write onto your chalkboards with the white paint pen.

Form a tiny piece of white modelling paste into a tube and stick it on the lower right corner as can be seen above.

Form a piece of white modelling paste into a thick rectangle shape. Use a cake smoother to help create the shape. This will be the books pages.

Mark pages on the thin sides of the shape with a knife tool.

Roll out some blue modelling paste, larger than the white shape. This will be the books cover.

Trim the cover to size, stick it around the pages.

Leave the book to dry overnight.

Form small tubes of white modelling paste.

Stick these onto the side of the book, arched slightly.