It’s teatime in the woods and there tea is served in cups made from tree nuts.
Even though Easter has passed, I’ve continued working on my miniature picnic project inspired by Victorian customs and traditions and this past fortnight, I’ve been focusing on a diorama featuring two old friends enjoying a game of checkers and enjoying a tea party afterwards.
Especially for the scene, I made whimsical tea cups using tree nuts. Beatrix Potter’s rhyme, ‘If acorn-cups were tea-cups’ inspired the idea. The rhyme goes like this:
‘If acorn-cups were tea-cups,
what should we have to drink?
Why? honey-dew for sugar,
in a cuckoo-pint of milk;
‘With pats of witches’ butter
and a tansey cake, I think,
Laid out upon a toad-stool
on a cloth of cob-web silk!’
~ Beatrix Potter’s Nursery Rhymes
The nuts I used in the diorama are gumnuts from a pink flowering eucalyptus tree. Often, on my walks, I come across gumnuts and sometimes I collect a small handful of them.
I invite you to make teacups with me, I share how I made the whimsical tea cups in the video below. In addition to tree nuts, you’ll need cardstock and glue. I recommend using a strong contact adhesive, such as super glue.
‘Beatrix Potter’s Nursery Rhyme’ was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and was originally published by Warne & Co.
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