These adorable and free printable colour in teacups are just so much fun to make, they’re perfect for some fun cafe role play, a teddy’s bears picnic or to make and fill with goodies as a cute mothers day gift idea!
The best part is that our free printable template is available for anyone to download and can be found at the bottom of the page below the assembly instructions!
Here’s what you’ll need
Our printable template (printed onto card)
Colouring pens
Glue/Glue gun
Scissors
How to make our free printable colour in teacups
Start by printing out our teacup template. You can either print one of our designs directly onto card, or you can print it onto paper and use our template to just draw around instead. We’ll be printing onto card.
Once you have your card template, it’s time for your little one to colour it in and decorate it to make it look super beautiful!
When you’re finished, cut out all of your pieces and snip into the teacup piece following the dotted lines.
Now, take your teacup piece and glue the two ends together to make the shape of the teacup. Fold the tabs on the bottom inwards, pointing towards the centre of the mug.
Cover the bottoms of the tabs in glue and then press the teacup down onto the teacup base. trim around the outside of the base until its tight to the tea cup.
Take the handle piece and fold a tab inwards on each end, then glue the handle to the teacup over the join on the cup.
Place your cup onto the saucer, and your super cute teacup and saucer is finished and ready to play with or to fill and gift!
This cute paper cup santa puppet is far easier to make than it looks and can provide children with hours of creative and imaginative fun. We just love how ours turned out, my daughter had so much fun making up cute little puppet shows with him and he’s now sitting in place as a tree topper on her tree!
Here’s what we used
Paper cup
Card; red black, white, silver, gold, a skin tone
Pink and red marker
Googly eyes
Scissors
Glue
Double sided tape
Elastic
How to make our paper cup Santa puppet
Take your skin tone colour paper and cut out a strip wide enough to wrap around your cup and tall enough to cover just under a third of it. Stick It down around the base of the cup.
Cut out a v shaped beard and a moustache from your white card. Glue down the beard first and then add a small patch of glue (or tape!) to then centre of the moustache and stick it down on top of the beard as can be seen in the image above.
Stick on two Googly eyes above the moustache. Then take your markers and draw on a little round nose and a mouth.
Cut out a red santas hat and a little circular bobble to go on the end. Glue the two pieces together and then use your double sided tape (or glue gun!) to attach the hat to the inside rim of the cups base
Now take your black card and cut out a long thin strip of card to make a belt and a small square for the inner part of the buckle. You can cut a slightly bigger square from your gold card to make the outer buckle. Glue the belt around the body and then add the larger square to the centre of the belt with the smaller square on top of it
Cut out two red rectangles for the arms and two long strips for the legs. Accordion fold the leg strips back and forwards to give them some bounce. Next you’ll need to make two black mittens and two black boots. Glue the mittens onto the arms and the boots onto the legs and attach each one to your Santa’s body.
Add any other optional decor; we added a white strip around the hat and a sack of presents on his back.
Finally pierce a small hole into the base of the cup and thread through your length of elastic. Tie a large knot on the inside of the cup to prevent the elastic coming through. Once dry your paper Santa puppet is finished and ready to play with, Isn’t he just adorable!?
This adorable paper cup giraffe puppet is not only fun and easy to make but can also provide hours of fun imaginative play too. we made ours using card scraps and my daughter just loves him!
Here’s what we used
Coloured card (yellow, orange and black)
Coloured paper (orange)
String
2 Paper cups
Googly eyes
Scissors
Glue
How to make our paper cup giraffe puppet
Take your yellow card and cut out two large outer ears and then two smaller inner ears from the orange. Glue the pieces together to make the ears and then fold a small tab at the bottom of each ear and glue it in place inside the paper cup. next cut out two long giraffe horns and glue them in place between the ears as above.
Add two Googly eyes to the top of the head paper cup and two round black nostrils to the base. Then cut out several orange paper splotches and glue them all over both cups of the giraffe.
Next you’ll need to make five paper springs (4 legs and 1 neck). To make a spring take two equal length strips and glue them together at a right angle. Take turns folding the strips one over the other and then secure the end with glue.
Next cut out four round card circles for the feet and glue one to the end of each spring leg.
Attach the head and body together using a spring as above and then glue the 4 legs in place on the underside of the body cup.
To finish your paper cup giraffe puppet cut a fair length of string and glue one end just inside the rim of the head cup and the other inside the body. Once dry your adorable giraffe is finished and ready to dance!
We just love a fun handmade toy craft! These cute paper cup horse puppets are not only fun to make put provide plenty of fun play too! There’s so much you can do with them – Why not build some pony jumps out of toys or books for your horses to jump, or you could use some Duplo to build some stables.
You will need
Paper cups
Paint and paintbrush (optional)
Coloured paper
Googly eyes
Scissors
Glue
Wool scraps
String (optional)
How to make our paper cup horse puppets
Take two paper cups and cover them in your chosen coloured paint before popping them aside to dry.
Once dry take the first paper cup to make the horses head. Glue two ears down just inside the rim of the cup, add two Googly eyes and two nostrils. Finish the head by trimming and gluing on some wool scraps to make the mane.
Glue the two paper cups together with both of the openings facing backwards. Take some more wool scraps and glue them onto the back of the second paper cup to make the tail.
Next it’s time to make the legs. Cut out two equal strips of paper and glue them together at a right angle. Take turns folding one strip over to make a spring, once you reach the end use a little glue to secure the spring in place. Cut out a circle for the hoof and glue it to one end of the spring, glue the other end of the spring onto the horse to make a leg. Repeat this process for the other three legs.
To add some string to your horse puppets simple pierce a small hole in the body of the horse just behind where the two cups join. Pierce a second hole in the head cup slightly away from the rim (we placed ours under the mane so that it was hidden). Take your length of string and tie a large knot into it so that it will not pull through the hole. Thread the loose end through the body cup and then through the head cup. Once completely dry Your horse puppet is finished and ready to play with!
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