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    Home » Play Food

    Adorable Mushroom Craft for Kids

    Published: May 11, 2021 · Modified: Jan 6, 2022 by Marcie Groller · This post may contain affiliate links

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    plastic bowl and paper cup turned into mushroom house

    If your kids like pretend play, they will love this adorable mushroom craft! Who knew it would be so simple to turn a plastic bowl and paper cup into a mushroom house!

    red and white Mushroom Village house

    Note: If you love veggie crafts, be sure to check our our Pop-Up Paper Peppers, Play Food Carrots, and Play Food Asparagus crafts!

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    • 👌Why We Love this Mushroom Craft
    • đź›’ Supplies
    • 📝 How to Make this Mushroom Craft
    • đź§¶Other Vegetable Crafts
    • 🍄 Mushroom Craft for Kids

    👌Why We Love this Mushroom Craft

    • Simple supplies. You will likely have many of these supplies laying around the house already!
    • Minimal mess. No paint involved here, just some basic cutting, gluing and coloring.
    • Fine motor skills. Our mushroom craft allows kids to put their developing cutting and coloring skills to good use.
    • Lots of playtime. We love play food crafts! Once kids create their mushroom houses, they can actually play with them! The mushroom house is the perfect size for little dolls and toys.
    • Mushroom facts! Take this time to to share some fun mushroom facts with kids, like the fact that mushrooms are actually fungi (and not plants) and that edible mushrooms (i.e., the ones sold in grocery stores) contain important nutrients, like vitamin B and potassium.

    đź›’ Supplies

    supplies mushroom craft

    Notes on supplies:

    • Bowls- plastic or paper will work. If you have a red bowl, we recommend using that!
    • Scissors- we love these kid-friendly scissors
    • Cups- paper or plastic work well. Plain white is ideal for decorating.
    • Decorations- though not pictured, stickers or colored paper are great for decorating your mushroom house craft!

    📝 How to Make this Mushroom Craft

    Step 1: Make the top: Cover a red paper bowl with cut out white circles to form your mushroom house's top.

    Step 2: Make the bottom: Cut a small hole (the door) in your paper cup to form the body of the house.

    Step 3: Assemble. Tape or glue the bottom side of your cup to the inside of your bowl to form the mushroom house. Now decorate your mushroom craft with markers, stickers or whatever you've got!

    two mushroom houses made from plastic bowls and paper cups

    You can get as creative as you want when it comes to decorating the houses. We didn't have any plain white paper cups, so my kids decided to paste scraps of colorful paper onto their cups. We had some leftover Valentine's Day scraps which resulted in a lovely heart-covered mushroom house for my daughter, and a shiny pink mushroom craft for my son.

    đź§¶Other Vegetable Crafts

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    • Play Food Carrot Craft
    • Play Food Asparagus
    • Paper Plate Tomato Craft with Sponge Art

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    red and white Mushroom Village house
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    🍄 Mushroom Craft for Kids

    This mushroom craft is easy to make, doesn't require many supplies, and can keep the kids entertained for hours!
    Author: Marcie & Julie
    Total Time15 mins
    Total: 1 mushroom house

    Supplies

    • Kid-friendly scissors
    • Paint, glue or tape
    • Markers, crayons or paint
    • Paper/plastic bowl (red looked pretty cool)
    • Paper/plastic cup
    • White paper

    Instructions

    • If your paper/plastic bowl is white, color it red. This will be the top of the mushroom house. Then, cut out small circles of white paper (i.e., the mushroom’s white dots) and glue or paste them to the red side of the bowl.*
      child gluing white spots to mushroom house
    • Turn a paper/plastic cup upside down and cut out a door for the mushroom house.* Decorate the cup with windows, curtains or other features of a house.
      paper cup turned upside down and with doorway cut out
    • Tape or glue the bottom side of the cup to the inside of the bowl. Now it's time to play! Create as many mushroom houses as you’d like. Consider creating a whole village and placing lego people or other small toys inside each home.
      mushroom craft decorated with red hearts
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    Notes

    • Create as many mushroom houses as you’d like. Consider creating a whole village and placing lego people or other small toys inside each home.
    • *For toddlers especially, these tasks may require adult supervision and/or assistance.
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