Cake decorations - tap and ballet shoes?

[amum/Cathy]

Looking for suggestions/advice. Ds's dance teacher is retiring and I want to organise a big retirement cake for the little do she's holding for the pupils. I thought of putting tiny tap and ballet shoes as decorations - plastic and approx 2-3" long...ish. Maybe just a pair of each. Has anyone come across such things? Any ideas where I could find them. Or alternative suggestions welcome! The pupils there will be mostly ballet pupils. Possibly some balloons would be fun, for the younger ones, so a website that sells themed balloons would be great.

[Liveforballet]

Funnily enough I've just received an order from eBay for ballet shoe decorations for cup cakes! They have loads of different options some edible some not! Good luck!

[2dancersmum]

Amazon has a surprising variety of ballet themed cake toppers and accessories for parties.  Most cake and crafty shops tend to include ballet shoes in their ranges for the tops of cakes, but not seen any tap shoes.

[amum/Cathy]

Thanks Liveforballet and 2dancersmum. I've googled and searched but I don't want it too girly as 18 year old ds is her longest standing pupil, and anyway I'm paying/or cooking (haven't decided which yet)! I think I'm going to order 2 little tap shoe key rings for the tap shoes - and hopefully take the metal rings off and a cute pointe shoe keyring, both on Amazon.

[Dance*is*life]

There's a special edible modelling material that you can buy.  Don't know where you would buy it in the UK - possibly supemarket.  My daughter-in-law makes wonderful figures from it for decorating my grandkids' birthday cakes.  I imagine it would be fairly easy to model pink ballet shoes and perhaps red tap shoes out of it.

[amum/Cathy]

Thanks Dance*is*life. I might check out our local hobbycraft shop for it.

 

The little tap shoe key rings arrived this morning. They are 3 1/2 cm long and the metal chain will easily come off. They will be perfect as decorations. If anyone else is interested/for future reference; they were from Katz dancewear (available from Amazon). Hope I'm allowed to post that!