Baking A Ceramic Mug With Sharpie

First place the painted mugs in the oven.

Baking a ceramic mug with sharpie.

The baking process is the second key to making these mugs dishwasher safe. Place your mugs on a rimmed baking sheet makes getting them in and out of the oven easier and place them in a cold oven. You can choose to bake the mugs twice to really set in the sharpie drawings. While sharpie mugs are very popular right now there doesn t seem to be any consensus on how to best make the mugs.

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. Hand wash the mug gently instead of throwing it in the dishwasher as a machine washer may ruin the design. Where people take basic sharpie markers and paint on ceramic dollar store pieces with them. To make your sharpie mug washable and usable you need to make sure you use an oil based sharpie marker.

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

Then turn the oven on and set it to 350 degrees. 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 is because there is less glaze on them so the paint can adhere better to the ceramic when baked in the oven. It s such a popular idea right now especially around the holidays.

We want the mugs to start at room temperature and warm up along with the oven. Once preheated let the mugs bake for 25 minutes. 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.