Buy a tea kettle? For fifteen minutes’ use? I think not!   I went to our local Goodwill, but even the used ones were over $9. That’s just too much for a one-time prop, in my opinion. So sonny-boy and i made our own.  Here’s what we did:

1. I drew a tea kettle on a piece of paper (actually, I taped a few pieces of paper together, and drew the kettle on there). I made it the approximate size of a real tea kettle.
2. My son cut out the template.
3. Hubby placed the template on some wood he had left over from a previous project (thin, lightweight plywood), and cut it out with his scroll saw.
4. My son painted the handle black.
5. When the black paint was dry, I used some spray-on glue and aluminum foil to make the bottom part of the tea kettle silver (I suppose you could use silver paint, but we don’t have any, and I wasn’t going to buy any….
6. We used Gorilla glue to glue a wooden block to the back (along the bottom) so that the kettle stands up.

That’s it.  And it’s sooooooo cute! My son took it to class yesterday, and his teacher LOVES it!