Bubble Tea Free Crochet Pattern

Being in quarantine for so long can be tough, especially if all your favorite boba stores are temporarily closed. Since I missed my favorite drink so much, I decided to create a mini amigurumi version to keep me company.

One of my all time favorite drinks is taro boba, so of course I had to create a free pattern of amigurumi bubble tea on my blog!

Keep reading to learn about my inspiration and design process or scroll to the end to see the free pattern.

If you need to take this pattern offline, grab the ad-free, printable PDF pattern on Etsy here.

amigurumi bubble tea

A chibi, chubby boba design

Being in quarantine for so long can be tough, especially if all your favorite boba stores are temporarily closed. Since I missed my favorite drink so much, I decided to create a mini amigurumi version to keep me company.

The design that I decided on was a short, chubby version of the plastic cup boba comes in, with a short straw in a complementary color. One of my favorite things about boba is that the straw is oversized to account for the large tapioca pearls and they always come in fun colors. I love picking my straw to match whatever my boba order happens to be that day!

This design is a short round cylinder without any tapering to maximize the chubby effect. The straw is also fairly short to match, and there’s a white cap to mimic the plastic film covering the top of the boba drink.

amigurumi bubble tea

Customizable for every flavor or any drink!

The best thing about this bubble tea pattern is that you can adapt it to any flavor you want. My go-to bubble tea order is taro milk tea, but you can change it up to whatever you want bu simply switching out the color of the cup. And just like in real life, you can pick out the color of your straw too!

However, if you’re not a bubble tea fan or just don’t like your milk tea with pearls (I will never understand but you do you!) then you can omit the felt circles that create the boba to make any other cute drink in a cup.

I can definitely see this pattern being adapted to being an iced tea, coffee, hot chocolate, or anything else!

amigurumi bubble tea

Make a friend!

My bubble tea sits on a shelf overlooking my desk, which is a great way to remind me that no matter what I’m doing, at any moment I could get some bubble tea and my life will instantly be better.

But I also would love to put it on a keychain to take that little reminder with me out and about! I’m currently in need of a more substantial key fob so that I don’t keep losing my car key at the bottom of my bag, and this little boba would be just the ticket.

amigurumi bubble tea and friend

Amigurumi Bubble Tea Pattern

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Abbreviations (US):

  • Sc: Single crochet
  • Ch: Chain
  • Sl st: Slip stitch
  • Yo: Yarn over
  • Hdc: Half double crochet
  • Dc: Double crochet
  • Inc: Increase
  • Dec: Decrease
  • Sts: Stitches
  • FO: Fasten off
  • (…) x: Repeat stitches within parentheses … times
  • Sk: Skip one stitch
  • FSC: foundation single crochet (tutorial ​here​)
  • BLO/FLO: back loop only/front loop only (learn the difference here​)

Tools and Materials: 

Technical Notes:

  1. Crochet in continuous spiral rounds, unless specified otherwise. Use a stitch marker or piece of yarn to keep track of the last stitch in each round.
  2. When filling with polyester stuffing, pull apart each large chunk into many smaller chunks. This ensures an even distribution of firmness within the amigurumi.
  3. Stuff the head and the body firmly at the openings so that the neck is stable upon completion.
  4. To avoid large holes in the crochet fabric, increase tension until the holes cannot be seen, or choose a crochet hook a size down.
  5. Use sewing pins to secure limbs of the amigurumi before you sew them.
  6. Always use the invisible decrease and invisible finish off

Cup: ​(in light purple yarn) ​worked in joined rounds

  • R (round) 1: sc8 in MR, slst (8 sts)
  • R2: ch, (inc) x8, slst (16 sts)
  • R3: ch, (sc, inc) x8, slst (24 sts)
  • R4: ch, (sc2, inc) x8, slst (32 sts)
  • R5-17 (13 rounds): sc all around (32 sts)

Invisible finish off, weave in end. Stuff with fiberfill.

amigurumi cup base

Lid: (in white yarn) worked in joined rounds

  • R1: sc 8 in MR, slst (8 sts)
  • R2: ch, (inc) x8, slst (16 sts)
  • R3: ch, (sc, inc) x8, slst (24 sts)
  • R4: ch, (sc2, inc) x8, slst (32 sts)
  • R5: ch, (sc3, inc) x8, slst (40 sts)

Invisible finish off, weave in end. Leave a long tail for sewing.

amigurumi cup lid

Straw: (in dark purple yarn)

  • R1: sc6 in MR (6 sts)
  • R2-8 (7 rounds): sc all around (6 sts)

Invisible finish off, weave in end. Leave a short tail for sewing.

amigurumi cup straw

Boba:

Cut out 14 small circles from felt, around 0.8 cm in diameter.

Assembly:

  1. Sew lid to cup (making sure to use white yarn). Sew the cup to the second to last round of the lid so that the top of the lid sticks out all around.
  2. Sew the straw to the middle of the lid.
  3. Glue or sew felt circles all around the bottom half of the cup.
  4. Between the 5th and 6th rows from the top of the cup, attach 4.0mm safety eyes 5 stitches apart.
  5. Sew a mouth in the row directly below the eyes (6th from the top) using two stitches to form a shallow V shape.
amigurumi bubble tea and shirokuma

Your amigurumi bubble tea is all done! I hope you enjoyed making it as much as I enjoyed designing it. Now it’s time for lots of super mini tea parties! (Is that too meta?)

For more amigurumi food, check out my blog post about sushi here! Or if you want to make the tiny polar bear who was hanging out in a bunch of these pictures, click here for the pattern to Shirokuma the Mini Polar Bear!