Olympic Sport Ring Cupcake Topper Printable

Celebrate with the athletes at the Summer Olympics by doing what they can't--eating cupcakes.  But be sure to dress them up in style with these printable cupcake toppers featuring the colors of the Olympic rings and silhouettes of our favorite Olympic sports.

Will you be watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony tonight?

Other than the swimming events, it's my favorite part of the Olympics.  I love to see the world come together and cheer on their country, the athletes, and the ability to put aside our differences and enjoy the spirit of the Olympics for two weeks.

It's a beautiful thing.

But, the Opening Ceremonies are rather long.  It's fun to see all the athletes come in full of hope and possibility for their chance to compete for gold, but it takes FOREVER.

So as a spectator, I need some serious refreshments to get me through the entrance of each country's athletes.  That's why we'll be having an Olympics party celebration tonight with lots of sweets, including some Olympic cupcakes.

Our cupcakes will just be our favorite flavor box mix with some cute printable cupcake toppers on top to show our Olympic spirit.

Each cupcake topper has an Olympic ring around the border with a silhouette of one of our favorite Olympic sports inside.  Simply use a 2 inch circle punch to cut them cupcake toppers out of card stock and glue or tape them to a toothpick.  Then stick them on top of your favorite cupcake and you'll instantly have a cute party treat to serve at your Olympic party.

Will you be watching?

15+ Ways to Cheer On Team USA at the Summer Olympics

Support Team USA at this year's Summer Olympic Games. Here's lots of fun ideas to help you throw a great viewing party or just support the team as you go about your day.

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Summer Olympic Games Party

I just can't help but cheer for this amazing Summer Olympic Games party.  With so many wonderful details and ideas, it's just in time to keep you rooting for your home nation at the Rio Summer Olympic Games. 

This Summer Olympic Games party submitted by The Real Thing with the Coake Family at our Dare to Share Saturday linky party is a great inspiration for a family party as you watch the Olympic Games next month.

With so many detailed DIYs and fun game ideas, you're family will love to get out and run around before coming back to enjoy these sweet party treats.

This is what KC said about her party, "We are huge Olympic fans at our house. I planned fun games for the summer Olympics 4 years ago and the winter Olympics 2 years ago for our co-op. This year with my oldest daughter being in school, I wanted to plan something that she could be a part of as well. I came up with some fun water-based games and we invited some friends to join our fun."

Go check out her great diy projects and games.  Be sure and don't miss these party details:

Olympic Ice Ring with detailed tutorial

Olympic Medal Cookies

Water Balloon Skeet Game

Sprinkler High Jump

There are so many amazing party ideas and party games at this Summer Olympic Games party submitted by The Real Thing with the Coake Family that you'll be trying to decide if it's better to play the Olympic party games or watch them as you enjoy the sweet party desserts.

For more great Olympic Party ideas, be sure to check out our Olympic Games Pinterest board.

Celebrating the Red, White, & Blue Soda

A Yummy Gold Medal for the Athletes

I never meant to be gone so long from the blogosphere, but things have been absolutely crazy lately.  I haven't had a spare moment lately, it's been NUTS.  But a good kind of nuts.  I have had several special orders, including these fun Oreo Medals for a race this weekend.  I just loved how they turned out and I thought I would share how to make them.

I started by making some Chocolate covered oreos and wrapping them in foil so they looked like a ding dong.  Then I took the race's logo and put it on a 2 inch sticker and put that on the oreo.  (I know I took pictures of these steps, but heck if I can find them.)

Then I took some red, blue, and green ribbon and cut it to 1 yard length.

I glued the last inch of ribbon together and then laid about 1 1/2 inches of hot glue on the outside.

I finished it up by placing the oreo onto the glue.  Now it hangs perfectly and is a yummy treat too.

Now the gold, silver, and bronze are ready for the winners!

Viggle-ing for Gold

Are you enjoying the Olympics?  I admit, I've had them on every moment that I've been home.  I enjoyed watching the men's Water polo game yesterday afternoon.  I think I only get to watch that sport every 4 years in the Olympics...as much as I enjoy it, I don't know why I don't check it out more.

I've done a lot of "coaching" of our Team USA swimmers this weekend too.  I hope they are taking my advice as I yell hints and tips at the screen.  (Mostly it consists of "GO FASTER!" which they are obviously listening to as Lochte and others have taken the Gold.

While I'm yelling at the TV and cheering on our athletes, I haven't forgotten to Viggle.  Have you?  I told you about Viggle back HERE in my week of Making Money Online ideas.  I don't know if you listened to me, but if you are an avid Olympics watcher, now is definitely the time to check it out!  After all, why not get a little "gold" for yourself while our athletes are getting some gold?

If you don't know about Viggle, it's an awesome app for the IPhone, and now the Android.  You "check in" to your TV shows when you're watching.  That simple means to let the app listen to your TV.  It will find the show your watching and let you earn points for the TV you are watching.  You can then turn those points in for free gift cards to things like Chilis, Fandango, or even a free Kindle fire.  Pretty cool right?

It's free and it's not hard to do.  Just "check in" at the start of your show and it will keep you signed in to that show until you check into another one or until the show is over.  At the end of the show, you'll get your points.  Then you can check into another show if you want.  Plus, there are lots of extra ways to earn points. You can watch commercials or take quizzes to get more.  Plus, during the Olympics, you can play along live and get extra points for predicting who will win races or answering trivia questions.

Not bad for something you're going to do anyway, right?  You definitely should go check it out HERE and bring home some gold of your own!

Olympic Ring Cookies

I'm so glad the Opening Ceremonies are on a Friday.  I know it's silly, but I miss having Cookie Friday with my kids.  We have a tradition of making cookies when they get home from school on Friday afternoons to celebrate the end of the school week and the start of the weekend.  We end up taking a break during the Summer months because we are usually home and baking all day.

I don't know what we'll do now that I'm at the store until dinner time every night.  I hope I can figure out a way to keep our family tradition.  I want the kids to look back on this time and remember the traditions we started.

When I saw these fun decorated cookies from Meaghan from The Decorated Cookie over on Birds Party Blog, I knew that I needed to have them at our Opening Ceremony viewing party.  They look super easy to make, which is good since I'll be making them late tonight after the kids have gone to bed (hope they don't wake up and make me have to share the frosting.)

Go check them out HERE for the complete directions and enjoy a little bit of celebration that the weekends finally coming!

Olympics on the Go

I love my little store...I really do.  But I admit, being here 24/7 is kinda hard sometimes.  I feel like I miss out on a bit of fun.  Fortunatly, I can make my own hours, so I don't miss everything.  I won't get to miss the Opening Ceremonies, but I will miss some of the best Olympic action since I don't have cable or a tv at the store.

I'm a little partial to the swimming events.  Maybe it was because I dreamed of being an Olympic swimmer...maybe it is me still dreaming of reaching that AAA in breaststroke.  Maybe it's just an exciting event with lots of great action.  And who doesn't mind watching Michael Phelps (both in and out of the water?)

Even though I'll be away from the TV, I don't have to miss all the action.  And in case you'll be out and about too, here are a few quick ways to catch all the excitement, glory, tears, and thrills of the Olympic games.

In case you have access to a computer with internet, you can go to www.NBCOlympics.com   They will have all the news, videos, and information on all your favorite sports.

Or you if you have a smart phone, NBC has two apps that you can download and use to catch all the fun.  They have the Olympics App and the Olympics "Live Extra" App.

The NBC Olympics App has all the news, medal counts, videos, and updates from London.  Plus, it looks like you can follow your favorite athletes and events so you won't miss all the swimming, diving, gymnastics, or track and field fun.  You can even interact with all your favorite social media platforms right from the app, so you can cheer your team on in full social media fashion!

The NBC Olympics "Live Extra" App lets you watch ALL 302 events so you can see some of the rarer events that don't get as much TV action as you might like.  Plus, access is free for subscribers to access is free for subscribers to a cable, satellite, or telco TV service package that includes CNBC or MSNBC.

Olympic Ring Dessert Plates

I guess every young child dreams of going to the Olympics some day.  When you are out practicing for hours on end while other kids are playing, the thought of some day standing on the podium while the national anthem plays keeps you going.  

Now that I'm an adult, I realize that I was never going to make it to the Olympics.  I just wasn't that good.  But I certainly had my dreams of out swimming Michael Phelps.

Now that I'm older and reality has set in, I empathize more for the mothers of all those Olympic athletes.  I feel a sense of pride and accomplishment as each of those athletes enters the stadium and enjoys the opening ceremonies.

This year, I'll be imagining my own children out there and we'll cheer each athlete that wins and mourn with each that misses the gold.

But while we are doing that...we'll enjoy lots of sweet treats. After all, the Opening Ceremonies are LONG! It takes a long time to walk that stadium and we'll need lots of energy to keep us going.  But we have to do it in style.  So today I made some Olympic Ring dessert plates for our Opening Ceremony viewing party.

I started by buying these clear plates from Dollar Tree.  I suppose I could have saved a few steps and just bought colored plates from Walmart, but I'm a cheapy and didn't want to spend $2.50 a plate.  I did buy a black plate and 4 clear plates.  Dollar Tree had yellow and green plates too, but they were more of a mustard and sage color than the bright colors I wanted.

Normally when I'm making cake display stands, I go with the small candle sticks, but I wanted to try something different, so I found these candle vases and picked up 3 of them to give my Olympic rings some height.

I spray painted the bottom of my plates in red, yellow, blue, and green.  By spraying the bottom of the plate, I wasn't worried about the color coming off on the food and being unsanitary. Now if you don't have these colors already on hand, it might not save you money by going this route, but since I have a strange love of spray paint, I was set.

At this point, I usually glue my plate to my candlestick, but wanted to try something new.  I wanted my plates to be interchangeable down the line so I could use the bases and not have to buy new ones.  But just placing the plate on the stand didn't make it very secure.  So I found some velcro circles that I had laying around from another project. 

I put one of the sides in the center of the plate and one on the center of the upside down vase.

This gives the back rings some height so everything on my dessert table isn't eye level.

Lastly, I laid the plates into the colors of the Olympic rings.  Now they are ready for LOTS of treats and the games to start!

Olympic Shopping

Since opening the Candy store last month, I feel like most of my life has been consumed by work.  I get up, go to the store, come home, colapse in bed....not much interaction with my family.  I think they are beginning to wonder if they still have a mom.

I love having the store...it's been a lot of fun and I've met some amazing people, but I admit I miss my family a little okay, a lot.  So I think, I'm going to plan a fun weekend of Olympic excitement.  We are going to start with a kick off dinner and Opening ceremony viewing party and go from there.

When I start my party planning, I do a lot of "window shopping" on Etsy.  It really helps to give me ideas on things that I want to make for my party.  I'll admit, I was suprised how little Olympic party ideas there were to look at.  I managed to find a few that if you were to order today, you should have in time for the Opening Ceremonies.

Go check them out and support the small businesses of America and the world.

'Go for the Gold Olympic Party' 

All the necessities to help you have a fun Opening Ceremony Olympic party!

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