Whether you are looking for a fun way to wrap up summer or are already into your new year, enjoy these teddy-at-the-beach cupcake ideas!

We found four different, but equally inviting, recipes to give you ideas for creating your own:

1. Teddy-at-the-Beach Cupcakes
   Favorite, and easy, from Betty Crocker begins with a box cake mix.
2. Bears at the Beach
   Kraft version that utilizes their whipped topping tinted blue for water and flattened marshmallows for beach blankets.
3. Beach Bear Cupcakes
   This one from Within the Kitchen is for the more ambitious. The cake is made from scratch, divided into four parts, and each part is colored a different color for a rainbow effect.
4. Shark and Beach Cupcakes
   A Martha Stewart version featuring homemade chocolate cupcakes with sand…and sharks!
5. Pull-Apart Beach Cupcakes
   These cupcakes are very original! (From Food Network)

Add gummy worms, gumballs, teddy grahams, graham cracker crumbs, fruit leather, Life Saver Gummies, whipped topping, marshmallows, Goldfish. Put the creative genius of the entire family to work.  Really your imagination is the limit!

If you want to find at least a tangential educational goal here, use this time to talk nouns, or adjectives, or simply follow directions!