Depending on the little ones, I would do each handprint on a separate piece of paper, then glue it to the background. This allows for ”fails” like smudges and smears and ”misprints”.

Super cute! Are those buttons prunes?

That’s pretty funny. Weird, but funny. You could give the kids squrt bottles of mustard, relish, and ketchup (“hi, I’m bpath, I’m from Chicago, and I put ketchup on hot dogs.”), and let them ”dress” the passengers!

Oh, I can imagine some little boys I knew having fun plucking the ”hair” off the fairy so she was bald! (or her dress!) But you do have a point, Elmer. It’s why we switched from theme birthday cakes to brownies, then pie. The kids didn’t care or even notice what the cake looked like, and ate either the icing, or the cake, but rarely both. Brownies were,a universal favorite and extra pieces could be easily sent home with kids or boxed up. In later years, pies were a birthday activity, with each kid selecting the filing for their slice, and making a way to identify that slice on the crust. (Making pizza was a similar activity.) I think it’s like sushi, really pretty but then you just pop it in your mouth. I see the rice now, eld, but is the yellow an omelette? It’s really cute.