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An easy paper cup hot chocolate craft for kids to make on a winter day.

The hot chocolate mug is glued to a paper plate, making this craft adorable and great to display in the classroom or at home.

It is a low prep craft and perfect for teachers to make with students. All you have to do is cut the paper cups in half and hot glue them in the middle of the paper plates. Students can take it from there and add the handle, hot chocolate and steam.

If you’re doing the craft at home with your kids, you can use a low temp glue gun.

We made our craft with colored paper plates and paper cups. If you only have white plates and cups, you may want to paint them first and let them dry completely before starting the craft.

Paper cup hot chocolate craft variations

• You can add white pom poms for marshmallows
• Replace the brown paper shreds with brown crumpled up paper tissue
• Add a paper straw to the mix

More winter crafts for kids

• This paper hot chocolate craft comes with three mug choices
• The eight cutest snowman crafts you’ll ever see
• If you like crafting with paper plates, you have to check out these 25 paper plate winter crafts

History of hot chocolate

Did you know that hot chocolate started as a cold and spicy beverage? Originating from Mexico, the drink was brought to Europe, where in time evolved to sweet and hot, as we know it today.

It was the English who started adding milk to their hot chocolate and the Dutch who made it easier to prepare by inventing the cocoa powder.

You can still find spiced hot chocolate in Latin America and thick chocolate in Spain or Italy – I would be curious to try them all.

Hot chocolate has quite an interesting history.

Paper cup hot chocolate craft

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Supplies:

• colored paper plate
• colored paper cup
• colored paper to match the paper cup
• brown shred paper
• cotton ball
• hot glue gun with hot glue
• glue
• pencil
• scissors
• snowflake punch (optional)

How to make a paper cup hot chocolate craft

Start by cutting a paper cup in half.

Place one half of the paper cup on colored paper and trace a handle next to the cup. Cut out the handle.

Use the hot glue gun to glue one half of the paper cup in the middle of the plate.

Glue the handle next to the cup, onto the paper plate.

Place brown shred paper inside the paper cup to make the chocolate.

Pull apart a cotton ball into two or three and glue the cotton steam lines above the cup.

You can decorate the cup and/or the paper plate with snowflake stickers. We used my son’s snowflake punch.

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