DIY homemade tea bags

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Updated April 2024

These DIY homemade tea bags make the perfect thoughtful, personalized gift idea for Mother’s Day, bridal showers or birthdays. Scroll down to see how I made them.

For as long as I remember, I have always enjoyed tea time with my mom. She collects beautiful tea cups and I love taking my time, choosing which cup I’m going to use, pouring my tea and adding my sugar cubes.  Some of our best conversations are over a cup of tea.

A few years ago for Mother’s Day, my sisters and I decided to throw a Mother Daughter Mother’s Day Tea Party. The highlight of the party were these DIY handmade tea bags we created using photos and some of our favorite memories together.  If you are looking to give a meaningful, handmade gift, these are perfect for Mother’s Day, or for a friend or bridal shower.

Our mom absolutely loved them and they looked really cute on the table too!

Scroll down to see how to make my DIY Homemade Tea Bags and some of my favorite picks for your tea party spread.

If you make these, be sure to share a photo and tag me on Instagram @ourtiny_nest so that I can see how they came out! If you’re not following me already, click here to follow me on IG 🙂

DIY Homemade Tea Bags

You will need:

• Coffee filters
• Loose leaf tea
• Twine
• Cardstock or printed photos
• Stapler

Directions:

1.) I started by printing out some of my favorite photos that I wanted to use for the tea bags and cutting them into small squares for the tags. If you’re not going to use pictures, you could also do cardstock and write little personalized messages on them.

2.) Take a coffee filter and scoop 1 1/2 teaspoon of loose leaf tea into the center of the coffee filter.

3.) Bring the edges of the coffee filter up to make it into like a blossom and pinch the center to close it off.

4.) Take a piece of twine and wrap around the part of the coffee filter that you have pinched off and tie closed leaving enough of the twine coming off the tea bag for steeping.

5.) Using a stapler, staple your picture or cardstock to the end of the twine.

We chose to have them all set out on the table. I think they would also be cute made into a basket with a tea canister, a tea cup, some biscotti and maybe some macaroons.

Linking some of the items from our tea party below

Tea pot

Tea cups

Tiered cupcake stand

Tea Cannister

For more Mother’s Day Ideas check out:

This strawberry lemonade Momosa

These DIY Coffee Scrubs

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