Acorn Tea Cups

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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  🙂

4 Comments

  1. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!!! How adorable!

  2. Speechlessly clever and cute!!! WOW!

  3. Those are REALLY cute! I love them!

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