One of my daughter’s favorite picture books is Miss Suzy by Miriam Young. It’s a sweet story about a little girl squirrel who lives high up in a cozy tree-home.
One of the cute things this squirrel has in her tree-house kitchen is acorn cups to drink from. I recently decided to try and create some tiny tea-cups out of the numerous acorn caps we’ve collected on our neighborhood walks.
First, I had to carefully cut the cap in half, since I wanted to glue it on a flat surface.
Next, I made a small notch in the rim for the twine to slip into when gluing on the “handle”.
I used super glue to get the twine to stick quickly to the cups.
I also sanded down the pointy bottoms of the acorns to give them a flatter base.
They turned out super cute! They look just like little tea-cups. I drew in a saucer and some steam with a 0.1 tip Zig drawing pen. I can’t wait to wrap up some boxes of peppermint tea in brown kraft paper and attach these tags!
A tiny tea cup and an itty-bitty sugar bowl…
I painted these cups with some acrylic paints…
And if you think these are cute, just wait until I show you the complete fairy-sized tea service my daughter and I designed and assembled from our remaining acorn caps… coming up next! Stay warm 🙂
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!!! How adorable!
Speechlessly clever and cute!!! WOW!
Those are REALLY cute! I love them!
Thank you Alex! Now if I can just keep them away from J.! 🙂