This was ORIGINALLY made to put on top of a 1/4 sheet cake. I put it on a board, of coarse, and placed dowels in the cake where it would be sitting. I even put a dowel down through the duck into the sheet cake. But, fifteen minutes later, it fell over smashing one side of the cake. Needless to say, we made a trip to the store to get a toy rubber ducky because I WAS NOT transporting this duck!!!! I corrected it's blemishes, then his wings fell off!?!?