🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

🎨 Creativity & Imagination — Open-ended activities that let children direct their own play grow creative thinking, original problem solving, and the confidence to express personal ideas.

💬 Language Development — Narrating play, hearing new vocabulary, and describing what they're doing dramatically expands children's language range and the sentence complexity they'll bring to reading and conversation.

🎯 Focus & Attention — Sustaining engagement with an activity long enough to complete it builds the voluntary attention control that children need for listening in class, reading, and all forms of academic learning.

📐 Spatial Reasoning — Thinking about how objects relate in space — fitting shapes together, building structures, filling containers — develops the spatial intelligence that predicts success in mathematics and STEM fields.

What are cupcakes without a few extra special treats? These can offer just that -- a little tasty surprise for any preschooler to enjoy.

What You Will Need

Cake mix of your choice

Candy treats such as candy corn, mini M&M's, Skittles, etc.

Powdered sugar

How To Do It

Step 1: Make your cupcakes according to package instructions. Bake and allow to cool completely -- one to two hours.

Step 2: With a butter knife, cut out the middle of the cupcake (make a lid out of it) and scoop out some of the cake from inside.

Step 3: Place tasty treats -- three or four -- inside cupcake. Put lid back on cupcake so it fits tightly.

Step 4: Sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy!

Making It Even More Exciting

You can fill the cupcakes with a dollop of frosting or whipped cream. You can also add Halloween sprinkles or confections to the cupcake as well.

If Making These For A Party

You can make them in the party-styled cupcake holders. There are many different kinds out on the market.

Remember...

If you let your preschooler help with these, use a plastic disposable knife to cut the lid off.

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I'm Mary Beth P. Adomaitis, the Preschool Activities writer and associate editor for Preschoolrock.com. As a mom of a preschooler, I love hearing from other parents and teachers of preschoolers. If you have any preschool activity ideas, suggestions or questions, feel free to contact me.

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