About this Event
Key details
- 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.
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
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
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:
- By phone: 01623 677 200
- By email: [email protected]
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mansfield-Woodhosue Library, Church Street, Mansfield, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 35.00