Fun fact to think about – I read somewhere that the United States is the only country that has a known birthdate! Celebrate the 4^th with some rockets blasting off your cake in all directions! These paper rockets are fast and easy to make once you have your supplies assembled. Hooray!

Materials needed: red white and blue colored cupcake liners, hot glue gun, scissors, red white and blue cardstock, silver pipe cleaners, bamboo skewers.

Step 1: Take a cupcake liner, and fold it in half. Make a cone shape with it, and using hot glue, attach the edges together.
Step 2: Take a 4 x 6 rectangle of paper and roll it into a tube shape. Hot glue the tube closed.
Step 3: Apply hot glue to the top of the paper tube, and gently press the cupcake liner cone onto it.
Step 4: Take 3 pieces of silver pipe cleaners, fold them in half, and curl them around your finger. Attach to the inside bottom of the tube with hot glue.
Step 5: Apply a dollop of hot glue to a bamboo skewer and insert it in between the pipe cleaners, pressing it to the paper cone until secure.

Photography by Tim Gibson