Baking A Ceramic Mug With Sharpie

These coffee mug tutorials typically just say to write on your mugs with some regular sharpie markers bake and you re done.

Baking a ceramic mug with sharpie.

By putting the mugs in the cold oven and allowing them to preheat along with the oven you reduce the risk of them cracking from sudden changes in temperature. Some other sharpie mug methods say 350 or 375 but the hotter the oven the more the original white glaze will melt and allow your sharpie paint to set in so i like to bake my mugs at 425. To make your sharpie mug washable and usable you need to make sure you use an oil based sharpie marker. It s such a popular idea right now especially around the holidays.

Choose the right sharpie for mugs. First place the painted mugs in the oven. Once preheated let the mugs bake for 25 minutes. Then turn the oven on and set it to 350 degrees.

The baking process is the second key to making these mugs dishwasher safe. Turn the oven on to 375 degrees and let it come to heat. I put them in upside down so i didn t have to worry about them falling over. Hand wash the mug gently instead of throwing it in the dishwasher as a machine washer may ruin the design.

Let your painted mug dry for 24 hours. Some say that some of the colors change when baked some say that they don t stand up to dishwasher washing or handwashing even and some say that the paint chips off the mugs after a couple uses. This diy works best with cheap dollarstore dollartree in particular ceramic mugs. You can choose to bake the mugs twice to really set in the sharpie drawings.

Bake your mug to set the paint. Where people take basic sharpie markers and paint on ceramic dollar store pieces with them. We want the mugs to start at room temperature and warm up along with the oven.