Christmas Cupcake Toppers - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 5 November - 3 December 2024
• Sessions: Tuesdays: 10am - 12pm
• No. sessions: 5
• Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £35

This course is a beginners guide to decorating Christmas cupcake toppers.

You will learn skills and techniques using modelling paste to create a cupcake snowman, polar bear, Christmas elf, Christmas pudding, and Christmas wreath to enhance a cupcake.

By the end of the course, you will have produced a selection of Christmas toppers to your own specification, that can be used to decorate and enhance any special occasion or celebration cupcakes.

Toppers will include:

• How to make a snowman

• How to make a polar bear

• How to make a Christmas elf

• How to make Christmas pudding

• How to make a Christmas wreath

Resources required:

• Cupcakes, buttercream, piping nozzle of choice and piping bag (Optional)
• Circle cutter to cover a cupcake.
• Ready to roll icing and sugar florist paste or modelling paste.
• Board
• Rolling Pin
• Corn flour for dusting
• Edible glue
• Paintbrushes for glue and dusting
• PME Foam cell pad
• Modelling tools: dresden tool, ball tool.
• Craft knife
• Gel colours and petal dusting powders of personal choice, examples: Blue, green, red, brown, yellow, pink, peach, orange, flesh colour for the face, black
• Cocktail sticks
• Scissors
• Note pad and pen.

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

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Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
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• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
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