Craft Cups of Hot Cocoa

Above our doll sized china tea cups are filled to the brim
with tempting sweet chocolate, just in time for winter!

How to shape faux paper liquid inside
a cup.

       Our steaming hot coco is easy to remove forom these tiny cups whenever the dolls have tired of drinking this particular beverage. This is because, of course, the drinks are made from paper mache! Follow four simple steps to shape any faux drink you would like to sculpt for your play cups and saucers. Then all you will need to do is paint and decorate their tops to finish this sweet adaptation.

Supply List:

• masking tape
• tissue paper
• doll sized cups
• brown paper bag
• white school glue
• brown, white and ivory acrylic paint
• white pencil
• white puffy paint
• Sculpey (oven bake clay)
• Mod Podge

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1.  Tear a small piece of masking tape and place it sticky side up over the mouth of your doll sized china tea cup.
2. Crumple a piece of tissue paper and place position it on top of the sticky tape.
3. Push the tissue and tape gently inside the porcelain tea cup with the ends of the masking tape hanging over the sides of the cup.
4. Now pull the tape over the top of the tissue paper to form a delicately shaped paper insert for the cup.
5. Remove the faux liquid shape gingerly and cover it entirely with a second layer of masking tape.
6. I covered the surfaces of my hot chocolate with white school glue and an additional thin layer of brown paper shredded from a bag.
7. Then I painted the shape with brown acrylic paint.
8. To make the marshmallow topping, roll out a snake-like shape of oven bake clay and cut it into tiny pieces that resemble marshmallows. Bake at 275 degree oven for 5 minutes. Let cool.
9. Glue these tiny marshmallows to the top of each cocoa cup filling using a tacky white glue.
10. Paint the marshmallows with a ivory shade of acrylic paint.
11. I then used white puff paints to add highlights to the marshmallows and tiny bubbly froth to the top of my coco.
12. Seal the faux cocoa inserts with Mod Podge.

Left, ordinary empty porcelain doll cups. Center, shaping masking tape and tissue paper inside the cups.
Right, the shapes have been painted and decorated to look like hot cocoa.

Above are more close up photos of hot faux chocolate inserts with clay marshmallows.

More About Hot Chocolate for Dolls:

• How to Make Hot Cocoa With Kit
• DIY Doll Size Snack Shack by Jaime Costiglio