Digital Zany Birthday Cake Art Project
My no prep, digital art project for elementary kids to build a zany birthday cake on Google Slides™ is an engaging Read Across America project. Students will practice technology skills using my digital birthday cake resource and step by step art lesson. Then, pick a writing prompt to draft a creative story about their birthday cake project.
Need fun, fast finisher activities for 2nd, 3rd, 4th graders? Digital art projects are paperless, take up no space, and don’t use art materials. Simply assign the birthday cake activity using your LMS, and stop worrying about early finishers!
Digital Birthday Cake Templates
This Google Slides Read Across America activity includes tech tips and step by step directions with pictures for independent learning. And, kids can build a birthday cake using either copy & paste or drag & drop.
How to Build a Cake Art Project for Read Across America
First, your students will pick a background. Then, they’ll add a platter or plate and layers of cake with icing. To finish the cake, they’ll pick candles, balloons, cake toppers, bunting, and streamers!
Technology Skills
- Copy & paste
- Drag & drop
- Rotating
- Ordering
- Resizing
What’s Included
- 14 Student Direction Slides, with step by step tutorial so kids can create their digital birthday cake project independently
- Digital Moveable Pieces, so kids can either copy and paste or drag and drop to create their cake from the templates
- 7 Background Slides, where students will paste or drag their project pieces onto
- 2 Read Across America Writing Prompts, for kids to complete after making their birthday cake
- 4 Teacher Examples, fully completed, which you can use to demonstrate
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable PDF (with access link & teacher directions)
- 1 Google Slides Doc (Digital Birthday Cake Project & Writing Prompts)
Why You’ll Love My Zany Birthday Cake Project
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I used this resource when online learning. We did it at the end of the year to celebrate the summer birthdays. The students had so much fun.
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My students loved this resource! I love the creative ways they get to express in their cake decorating and then they get to choose from one of two topics.
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My students loved this! We used it during our Dr. Seuss celebration in March last year.
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Gwen M. –
I used this resource when online learning. We did it at the end of the year to celebrate the summer birthdays. The students had so much fun.
Leticia P. –
My students enjoyed this resource! I used this to celebrate my birthday! They all had fun making me cakes!
Linza Perez –
My students loved completing this activity. Thank you!
Terilyn V. –
My students loved this! We used it during our Dr. Seuss celebration in March last year.
Melissa H. –
My students loved this resource!
a Colorful Mixture (Teacher-Author) –
These are fun early finisher projects or things to leave to do with a sub. The directions are clear and once students have mastered the keyboard shortcuts, they love making their own unique creations.
Tamara A. –
This is an awesome resource. Thank you.
stefanie S. –
A great resource for my class during these crazy times.
Rachel R. –
This activity has made distance learning just a little easier – thank you for your resource.
makayla N. –
This was fantastic for my Virtual Learners! It was a new way to engage them. It was my birthday, so I had them all decorate me a cake. 🙂
joann F. –
My kiddos are loving these activities.
Denise V. –
Students were engaged in this activity.
Araceli Lombera –
We used for Read Across America. The students loved it!
Liz Sellers –
My students LOVED decorating a cake for Dr. Seuss’ birthday!
Francisca G. –
My students loved this resource! I love the creative ways they get to express in their cake decorating and then they get to chose from one of two topics.