Paper Hot Cocoa Craft for Kids | FREE PDF Template!

Are you looking for a fun, festive, fast Winter or Christmas craft? This adorable Paper Hot Cocoa Craft for Kids has it all!

Plus, with a FREE template, you only need a couple of supplies to complete this project.

This craft is perfect for preschoolers, kindergartners, and older children. Adult help and supervision are always recommended.

You’ll enjoy this activity because it’s quick and engaging for kids. It also allows them to practice decision-making by decorating their hot cocoa with their favorite materials and toppings. The cutting and gluing movements help develop their fine motor skills.

Go ahead and grab your supplies and get creative with this adorable holiday project!

Tip: If you’re a teacher, you can cut multiple mugs in different colors along with all the toppings, bring them to the classroom, and have a little hot cocoa workshop with your students using other fun crafting materials.

Tools & Materials

• Printer
• Template (download at the end of the article; you don’t need to subscribe!)
• Glue
• Scissors
• White cardstock
• Beads (optional)
• Markers (optional)
• Q-Tips® and vibrant paint (optional)

If you want to decorate a dark-colored mug with markers, the markers must be highly pigmented. If you don’t have this type of marker, you can easily recreate the same effects with regular paint and Q-Tips®.

You can opt to decorate a light-colored mug with regular markers as well!

Step 1 – Print Hot Cocoa Mug Template

You’ll find a section with the templates at the end of the tutorial. There’s a pre-colored version and a version for coloring. For a faster and easier craft, print the colored version, and for a more extended activity, choose the one for coloring.

Before you print the template, take a look at the pages. I included two different types of mugs in many colors. You don’t need to print all of them.

Step 2 – Cut Template

Cut all the pieces you want to use. As I mentioned, there are many different types and colors of mugs.

You can also check out the “Assemble Ideas!” page or show your children which hot cocoa they want to build.

You can also go with the flow and let your kid glue as many toppings as he wants.

Tip: You’ll likely need to help your child cut small and intricate decorations, like the hot cocoa drippings, strawberries, and single gummies, which may be hard for little hands to handle.

Step 2 – Decorate

For this step-by-step tutorial, I decided to use a creamy-colored mug, some beads, wafer straws, whipped cream, dripping white hot cocoa, a gingerbread man cookie, and a heart for the center of the mug.

You can also make dark hot cocoa by cutting the brown ovals and gluing them on the cup.

However, feel free to use your imagination and creativity to make this craft!

1. Glue handle to mug.
2. Glue wafers.
3. Add whipped cream.

Note: if you decorate with marshmallows, I suggest you glue the brown hot cocoa oval right after gluing the wafers.

4. Glue the dripping hot cocoa and gingerbread cookie.
5. Finish by decorating the mug by adding some beads and a heart in the center of the cup.

And, just like that, we have a beautiful white hot cocoa craft!

More Hot Cocoa Ideas!

You can mix and match the toppings in many ways, using beads, colors, markers, and paint!

Whenever possible, I like to provide you with different crafting choices. This allows you to include your little one in the decision-making.

Look at the following hot cocoa mugs for more ideas!

I used my white chalk marker to add some dots to the grey mug and used beads for sprinkles on the whipped cream.

I love the contrast of the following mugs as well!

It’s hard to pick a favorite!

Don’t you think?

I like the green and the navy blue cup with marshmallows.

Which one is your favorite?

Download Template!

As I mentioned, here’s the Hot Cocoa template for your craft! Click the image to open the PDF in a new window or the yellow button to trigger a download on your phone or computer.

Oh!

Just so you know, I also have a library full of free SVG files and Printables for all my subscribers, a.k.a. Daydreamers. You can see a preview right here or get access by filling out this form.

You May Like These…

I hope you enjoyed crafting these adorable hot cocoa mugs with your little people. If you enjoyed that activity, you would love the following.

• Paper Plate Polar Bear Craft
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• Paper Plate Santa Craft
• Paper Plate Christmas Tree Craft
• Paper Plate Snow Globes with five different scenes!

Happy Crafting!