Printable craft guide
Build a cupcake cube paper squishy
This cupcake design turns frosting, sprinkles, and wrapper artwork into a six-panel 3D cube net. Keep the panels flat while decorating, then use the dashed folds and gray tabs to build the cube.
Cupcake cube squishy guide
How to make your cupcake template
This cupcake design turns frosting, sprinkles, and wrapper artwork into a six-panel 3D cube net. Keep the panels flat while decorating, then use the dashed folds and gray tabs to build the cube.
Get these ready
- *A4 printer paper or light card stock (90-120 gsm)
- *Child-safe scissors
- *A ruler and a blunt scoring tool, such as an empty pen cap
- *Clear tape or double-sided tape
- *A small amount of tissue paper or soft scrap paper for filling
What to put inside
Use a small amount of light tissue before closing the final face. Avoid overfilling so the frosting artwork stays aligned.
What to stick with
Apply glue or short clear-tape pieces to the gray hatched tabs and fold the neighboring cupcake panels over them.
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Print at 100%
Print the cupcake cut sheet on A4 without scaling and check the six square faces.
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Cut the silhouette
Cut along the solid outer outline and keep all gray glue tabs attached.
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Decorate the flat panels
Add extra frosting colours, sprinkles, faces, or wrapper lines before folding the paper.
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Score and pre-fold
Score every dashed fold line with a ruler and blunt tool, then pre-fold the panels and tabs.
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Assemble the cupcake cube
Apply adhesive to the gray hatched tabs and fold the six cupcake panels into their 3D cube shape.
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Fill and close
Add light tissue through the final opening, secure the last tabs, and hold the seams while they set.
Print note: Print the A4 cut sheet at 100% scale so each of the six faces remains 6 cm.
Finish it: Place the frosting face forward and rotate the cube until the sprinkle-heavy panel catches the light.
Use scissors with adult help when needed. Keep filling light and dry: do not use food, liquid, rice, beads, or anything heavy inside a paper squishy.
Print and make
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