Best Way To Teach Decorating To My Daughter
Decorating By stormy2500 Updated 6 Feb 2007 , 3:28pm by mamacc
What is the best way to teach my 8 year old DD to decorate? There aren't any classes here that will let her in them. She is wanting to enter cake decorating competition at the state fair this year...and so we need to get working on this.
She started on tip 16 stars and tip 3 dots tonight...but I don't think she is quite getting it yet.
Any advice?
My six year old took a second place at Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show.
She loves doing cakes. I tried to help her decide on a theme for the cake. She wanted to do a wallace and grommit cake. I had her cover the cake in fondant and then she drew four scenes on wafer paper. We glued them on the cake and planted a garden on top of the cake!
Anyway I try to just let her do her thing and then show her some technique. I love kids and thought about doing kids classes or something!
I taught my granddaughters to do a daisy shaped pan cake. They loved it and great practicing control of bag.
Sharon
My son didnt have a choice in the matter, from the time he was a baby in his high chair he was watching mum.
Once he progressed to a big chair, he was playing with the fondant 
( a rather expensive but edible type of 'playdoh') he just started copying mum.
Now that he is 17 he is not doing as much now, 
but that is partially because he is now blind and one eye and losing the sight in the other slowly. 
But my boy still sits with his mum 
while she is doing a cake.
(think it my have something to do with taste testing) 
you can show her basic piping techniques and let her play with all the leftovers in your bags. helps if she can decorate small cakes to share with her friends. Basically I just let my daughter watch and play with everything I use and she takes it from there. Kids see things different than we do and sometimes can come up with things, we never thought about. It doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be about her and what she does. She's quite good now, her last 2 cakes were so good, people thought I had made them. For a 9 yr old that was an awesome feeling for her. Keep the cakes small though, she won't have enough strength or patience yet to do a big cake, it's all about being able to finish in the time that it takes, before her attention span runs out. They need to be able to finish a cake on their own, otherwise they get discouraged
I never showed my daughter anything but she can pipe icing out the bag with the icing coming out from the top!!!
I think just by watching is how they learn children are like sponges!!!
My six year old son is a budding decorator too! He is very interested and always asking questions about the cakes I'm doing. He has already picked up quite a bit!
He cracked me up at this birthday party we were at....I asked him for a bite of his peice of cake and he was like "it's not buttercream!" LOL, it was whipped cream frosting but I was really surprised that he could taste the difference. He always wants to know "are you going to use fondant??"
I also give my boys my leftover fondant and let them roll it out and cut shapes. They like to practice on sugar cookies too. My older son wanted to try flooding a cookie and to my surprise he did a really good job...and he did it with no outline too! 
Courtney
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