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Suggested for parent & child teams, or individuals 2nd grade and up

Supplies:
1 Chinette large paper dinner plate each
1 small yellow cake plate each
1 bendable colored plastic straw each
1 gold or yellow pipe cleaner each
1 brad with long tabs, each

Downloads:
Download the following from www.debrafrasier.com (Click on A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,
scroll to projects)

Clock Face: print one each on 8 1/2 x 11 in. white paper

Center Name Circle: prints 4 per sheet, each person needs 1 circle, copy onto red paper
Clock “Hand” with Earth: prints 6 per sheet, each person needs 1, copy onto white CARDSTOCK

Tools:
scissors for each or to share
markers or crayons
1 or 2 hole punches
glue sticks to share
1 or 2 black marker for names
1 or 2 rolls clear packing tape
surface to color on (table, cardboard, old catalogs) for each participant

Optional extras: star wire, (cut to diameter of plate), stapler, alternative clock hands (drilled plastic spoons
or tongue depressors are great), plastic flowers, wire butterflies, stick on stars, artificial flowers, leaves or
petals, anything decorative for outside rim, though nothing additional is necessary.

Prep:
Punch center hole in large and small paper plates (How to find the center? Trace bottom of plate onto tis-
sue paper. Cut. Fold in quarters. Crossing point is center. Overlay on plate, mark.) An awl or scissor point
works nicely.

Copy Clock Face, Center Name, and Clock Hand

Cut out the above if younger children present
Cut straws to three inches below the plastic bend

An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
Paper Plate Birthday Cake Clock
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1. Fill out name and birthday on small red round clock face.
2. Cut “pizza slices” off edge of yellow plate to make Sun.
3. Color white clock faces. Start with four globes and the markers for the Solstice
and the Equinoxes. Explain the meaning of these seasonal markers. (See below.)
Color the candles.
4. Glue clock faces to back of large Chinette Dinner Plate
5. Draw a line across the plate edge at each Solstice and Equinox, dividing the plate
lip into four seasonal sections.
6. Color each seasonal section a different color, or stripe in different colors.
7. Cut out clock hand. Color Earth.

8. Stack all parts on top of clock face with the clock hand on the bottom, then Yellow Sun plate,
Red small clock face with name.
9. Stick brad through all layers and attach to plate snugly.
10. Find YOUR birthday on the white clock face.

11. Punch a hole in plate rim at your birthday.

12. Cut plastic straw three inches below bend.
13. Make straw candle: double gold pipe cleaner and slide folded end through straw until “flame” peeks out top.
14. Thread into punched hole and bend so the shorter end—the candle— leans out of the way of the turning
clock hand.
15. Tape candle to back of plate.
16. Add wire star trim? (Staple in place.) Or ribbon? Or artificial flowers?
Or star stickers? Silk petals? Try drilling a plastic spoon for the clock hand,
or a Popsicle stick, or a tongue depressor.

An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
Paper Plate Birthday Cake Clock
Directions, continued

Now! Set clock hand on today. Rotate the Earth

from today to YOUR birthday, marked at candle.
That’s how far the Earth needs to travel to your
next birthday cake! Try anyone’s birthday. Add
candles for the whole family, add your cat, your
dog, your teachers!

This simple project teaches the very complex concept of the Earth’s circle around the Sun in one year’s time.

It is helpful, before starting this project, to use a globe to physically “act out” the Earth’s daily turning, spin-
ning day into night, every 24 hours.

Next, add the wide circle the Earth is making around the Sun every 365 days. (Mention Leap Year only if the
group is older.) Emphasize that the turning and circling never stops, and the circle is not a perfect circle. It is
“squished” (or elliptical) just a little. Explain that the solstices, December 21st, in winter, and June 21st, in sum-
mer, mark the place where the Earth’s imperfect circle swings the farthest from the Sun. The equinoxes mark
the days when the Earth is closest to the Sun, September 21st, the beginning of fall, and March 21st, the first
day of spring.

An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
Paper Plate Birthday Cake Clock
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An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
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An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
Paper Plate Birthday Cake Clock
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An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
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Box Project for Foodshelves

Create a celebration in a box—All ages.

Encourage a classroom or local community to bring a sealed cake mix, icing, and
candle package for a foodshelf celebration box.Read A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake while decorating
birthday boxes—You provide the boxes, decorating tools, and food shelf delivery.

Supplies needed:
Cake boxes or other small boxes to decorate (White cake boxes fold flat and are easy to color but any boxes
will do.) Provide an array of the following: Markers, stickers, crayons, tape, ribbon, scissors, glue, magazines
for collage cutouts, crayons, ribbon, glitter pens or inks—whatever is on hand. Optional additions: aluminum
baking pans, napkins, cake plates, small books or toys

Photograph the boxes. Add to your website. Pass the idea to classroom, churches, or scout troops.

Easy to follow instructions can be downloaded from:

www.debrafrasier.com/cla_sup_downloads/bdaycake/makecake.pdf

An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
DreamCakes!
Host a Contest for Dream Birthday Cakes

Host an all-school or classroom dream birthday cake contest. In A Birthday Cake

Is No Ordinary Cake Debra Frasier creates confections out of collaged paper.
Offer a contest for flat, collaged, 2-D cakes, like Debra’s, or add a little 3-D effect
by using the 3-D Cake directions. Consider making giant cakes of stacked boxes,
(square or round) or using roll-paper for big paper cakes. Read the story and
discuss the science concepts in the book. (See Counting Circles essay at back of
book.) Suggest that contest cakes represent the four seasons, the Sun, the Earth,
the equinoxs and solstices, the classmates sun-circles, OR simply go creatively crazy!

3-D cake instructions outlined here:

www.debrafrasier.com/docs/bdaycake/makecake.pdf

For awards consider classroom cupcakes, or cookbooks, or wooden spoons, or

printing on an invitation, or ribbons or trophies. If everyone is to win, consider
awards for Most Original, Most Delicious, Most Colorful, Biggest, Most Scientific
Concepts, Most Likely-to-be-Eaten, Most Student Representation, etc. If you are
a club or a troop, consider a REAL cake baking contest and invite another group
to share the results.

An activity to accompany A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake,

written and illustrated by Debra Frasier, Harcourt 2006
Visit www.debrafrasier.com for more downloadables.
A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake
Written and Illustrated by Debra Frasier
Harcourt, 2006 Let’s Celebrate!

A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake

Written and Illustrated by Debra Frasier
Harcourt, 2006 Let’s Celebrate!