Our latest get messy session with a bunch of bubs + Mummies has been a delicious treat, with no baking required! It came about after a lovely scroll through one of our favourite sources of inspiration - ArtCampLA . This post of Lots of Layers Cake was too yummy not to try. You can find the full post of cake painting with older kids here.

Icing the ready made cake was the project for our ten tiny babies and their Mummies. I can't believe how edible and gorgeous they all turned out! Random, hap-hazard baby finger prints made perfect little swirls of thick icing across their cake layers.

Keep Calm and Eat Cake!

You can try this project again and again and create completely different results - there's no controlling those tiny hands and the prints they leave! It is a great project for bigger kids too; those who can walk, talk and hold their own paintbrush :)

What you need

• A3 paper - at least 130 gsm

• Coloured paper

• paint

• glue

• paint brush

What to do

Cut out a cake stand and glue to paper.

Choose your flavour and paint layers of cake! Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry?

Mix quite a lot of paint for your icing, and have a little puddle of white hand.

Dip your paint brush into your colour + white, this will give the icing two tones. Let baby squeeze the brush, linger here so they can explore the ooozey texture. Bring baby to the cake layers - guide their hand horizontally across the page. Reapply their hands with paint and repeat this until cake is covered in icing.

Add sprinkles with little pieces of cut paper.

Tips for painting with baby

• Blu tack artwork to a window at standing height.

• Sit on chair with baby on your lap to apply paint to baby hands. Stand to paint your artwork.

• Let baby squeeze paint on the paintbrush - linger here, it feels amazing!

• Move baby's hand horizontally or vertically across the page.

• Add a little bounce as you guide baby's hand with paint

• Sing a song each time.

• Have baby wipes handy