Shape and Decoupage Coffee Mugs for Your Dolls

10 tiny, doll sized, paper mach mugs are cut from tubes and decoupaged in fun scrap paper prints.

 

Cut tubes to the desired size. Cap off the bottoms of mugs
 with cut, molded bottoms of a recycled egg carton.

        These colorful, printed, doll coffee mugs are made from supplies you can find in almost any crafter's stash.

Supply List:

• decorative papers
• tacky white glue
• Mod Podge
• paper tubes
• paper egg carton
• acrylic paints
• tiny paint brushes
• light weight cardboard

       Cut the lengths you desire from a long paper tube for these mugs. I prefer the paper tubes that come in packaging for wax paper or parchment. You may need to ask an adult to help you cut these mugs because the cardboard tubes that are thicker make the nicest coffee mugs and these thicker tubes must be cut with an X-acto knife or sharp blade. 

       I then cut the bottoms from a paper egg carton for the bottoms of my doll sized mugs. Glue these to one end of each paper tube using tacky white glue. Let the seams dry.

       Decoupage printed scrapbook paper to the outside of each mug and white typing paper to the inside of each mug.
       Cut narrow strips of cardboard and use tacky glue to attach these at the top and bottom side of each coffee mug. After this dries, add a second cardboard layer to the handle to give it strength. Paint the handles to make these a uniform white that match the inside of each coffee cup.
       Mod Podge the little coffee mugs for a clean professional finish.

Left, decorative scrapbooking paper stack. Right, finished coffee mugs for our dolls to fill with their favorite beverages.

Cover the cardboard handle where it attaches at the lip of the coffee mug
with matching paper on either side. (see arrows)

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