Coconut Drinks for 18" Dolls

The finished coconut drinks with miniature cocktail
umbrellas and colorful straws are of course, non-alcoholic
drinks for our young dolls! recipe made especially for kids!
  Serve up a treat  for dolls and their playfellows with a recipe
 made especially  for kids in the hot summer sun!

       These small coconut drinks, made especially for Kanani and Nanea fans are hand-crafted from burr oak shells. The rough surface of this white oak's acorn reminds me of ripe coconuts! Wouldn't these look sweet in Nanea's Family Market?

Supply List:

• burr oak shells
• a sharp paring knife
• white acrylic paint
• white tissue 
• hot glue and hot glue gun
• white school glue
• colorful small straws
• decorative scrapbook papers
• toothpicks
• seed beads

       To make the coconut drinks, you will first need to remove the nut meat inside the burr acorn shell. Do this with a small paring knife and patience. Chip away at the nut carefully until it all falls from the interior of the shell.

       Paint the interior of the shell with white acrylic paint; let this dry. Then squeeze a little hot glue into the bottom of each empty shell to insert a miniature cocktail umbrella and a small cut straw. 

       After the glue hardens, stuff some white tissue into the empty spaces between the cocktail novelties. Squeeze a generous portion of white school glue over the top of the tissue and let it soak in and dry. You may need to repeat this step until the white surface looks more like a drink than it does tissue!

Far left, toothpicks. Left center, quarter and decorative cut papers.
Right center, umbrella tops only. Far right, finished miniature umbrellas.

 

      To make the tiny umbrellas for your doll's coconut drinks, cut down toothpicks to the desired length. Trace around a quarter on top of decorative paper for the umbrella top. Use scissors to cut a small slit approximately half way across the cut circle. Now put a tiny bit of glue on the edge of the cut and pinch together the seam while cupping the paper slightly into the shape of an umbrella.
       Snip a tiny hole at the top of the umbrella and insert the pointed tip of a toothpick. Add glue and seed beads to the top of the umbrella. Let this dry and turn the umbrella upside-down and then squeeze more glue into the underside of the umbrella. Let this dry solid.

Left a finished coconut drink for our Hawaii loving dolls.
Right, the rough texture of an old burr oak acorn shell.

Left, use a egg cartoon to balance the acorn craft while it dries.
Right, the glue layered on top of the tissue looks like real coconut milk.

Burr Oak acorns supplied by a wandering Grandpa.
The nut meat is still inside a few of the burr acorns
 on the left.

       Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak, sometimes spelled burr oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect. Quercus, native to North America in the eastern and central United States and eastern and central Canada. This plant is also called mossycup oak and mossycup white oak.

       Quercus macrocarpa is widespread in the Atlantic coastal plain from New Brunswick to North Carolina, west as far as Alberta, eastern Montana, Wyoming, and northeastern New Mexico. The vast majority of the populations are found in the eastern Great Plains, the Mississippi–Missouri–Ohio Valley, and the Great Lakes region. Read more...