Decorating Suggestions With Old Toy Tea Sets For Young Children

Now that your children have grown up and left home, it is time to do something about their old toys. How about turning them into decorative items for your house?

Those small tea sets among your children’s toys can prove to be wonderful for household decorations.

You can use shredded paper for this. Yes, just stop putting shredded paper into the recycle bin. Instead, use it to decorate your cups. Just place the paper inside your children’s tea cups.

Once you have placed the paper inside the cups, what you need are a bunch of artificial flowers. For this you will need to go down to your nearest arts and crafts store.

What you need to do is remove the stems. This way the bunches will be placed on the top of the cups easily. It is quite possible that you don’t like the idea of using artificial flowers. Then maybe you can use the tea cups as candy dishes.

To make a candy dish, you need to stick a large piece of rubber at the bottom. Your nearby crafts store will have these rubber pieces available. Also get some extra strong glue to stick the rubber pieces at the bottom of the cup.

Wood glue is quite a good option for this. All you need to do is place the cup on the rubber piece and cut the rubber to get the shape of the tea cup.

Now put the extra strong glue on the rubber piece. The cup needs to be then gently pressed on top of the glue. Make sure to hold the cup for a few seconds so that it sticks to the rubber. Now it is time to let the glue dry.

Place some candies in the newly made candy dishes. The rubber will prevent it from slipping off the table and give that perfect touch to your house.

This candy dish can also be used as a centerpiece in your kitchen. You can place mints in it for times when you have guests in your house. If you have a party in your house or even a small gathering, this can be used as a centerpiece on such occasions too.

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