How to Make a Cell Cake
This is a fun and easy project that you can do with your kids to help them learn about cells. It's also a great way to use up any extra candy you have lying around.
Ingredients:
- 1 box of white cake mix
- 1 can of blue frosting
- 1 can of purple frosting
- 1 can of green frosting
- 1 can of yellow frosting
- 1 can of red frosting
- 1 package of rainbow Nerds
- 1 package of chocolate chips
- 1 package of gummy bears
- 1 package of marshmallows
- Toothpicks
- Labels (you can print these out online or make your own)
Instructions:
- Bake the cake according to the package directions.
- Let the cake cool completely.
- Frost the cake with the blue frosting.
- Use the purple frosting to make the nucleus.
- Use the green frosting to make the endoplasmic reticulum.
- Use the yellow frosting to make the Golgi apparatus.
- Use the red frosting to make the lysosomes.
- Use the chocolate chips to make the mitochondria.
- Use the gummy bears to make the ribosomes.
- Use the marshmallows to make the vacuoles.
- Use the toothpicks to attach the labels to the cake.
Tips:
- If you don't have all of the ingredients, you can use other things to represent the different parts of the cell. For example, you can use raisins for the mitochondria, or you can use fruit snacks for the vacuoles.
- You can also use this project to teach your kids about other parts of the cell, such as the cell membrane, the cytoplasm, and the nucleus.
- This project is a great way to get your kids excited about learning about science. It's also a fun and delicious way to end a unit on cells.
