Gallery of vintage Christmas collectible postcards and cards
Make miniature dipped wax candles and use them to create a traditional yule log Christmas table centerpiece in dolls house scale.
Make printable miniature Christmas tree skirts in several dolls house scales and styles.
Make miniature trees for Christmas villages or winter displays, using sheets of clear acetate with flourished designs made from stickers, glitter, or flocking.
How to use simple backdrops to extend a miniature village display or nativity scene.
Make miniature palm trees in several model scales for gaming terrains, railroad scenes, dolls houses, or Christmas Nativity scenes using paper and wire, or fabric plant leaves.
Many of our Christmas tree ornaments are miniatures in some form or another. Check out these projects and try a new one for your tree. Or share your most treasured hand crafted ornament projects.
Share your stories and instructions for making precious hand made decorations for your Christmas Tree.
How to plant a glass Christmas ball with living plants to make a miniature terrarium for any season.
These free printable miniature boxes can be used to make a set for an advent calendar, to wrap tiny presents, or to package miniature products at craft fairs and shows.
These stand up paper trees make great easy to make table decorations which can be folded and put away with your miniature scene.
How to make dolls house scale replicas of traditional glass Christmas tree birds using polymer clay.
These elegant miniature trees can be made from paper or curling ribbon and left plain, or frosted with glitter or flocking to make trees for all kinds of dolls house, gaming and village scenes.
How to make three dimensional miniature bells from polymer clay (or fondant), both freehand, and using home made silicone putty molds.
These printable miniature dime store glitter or coconut (sometimes called Putz houses) can be used to create your own fantasy village or decorations from the numerous parts which can be combined together.
Make glittered miniature snowflakes for scale miniature scenes and dolls houses from peel off stickers and micro glitter.
How to make miniature Victorian Christmas cornucopias in dolls house scale.
Make a printable sleigh from lightweight card or photo paper.This can be used for a dolls house scale Santa Claus, but is also suitable for other 1:12 scale scenes. It is the right size for a table decoration and is strong enough to fill with Christmas gifts or tiny parcels. Files are available to make this sleigh in 1:24 or 1:48 scale as well.
These printable miniature buildings can be used by railroaders, dolls house builders, or anyone who wants small buildings for a children's toy town, a Christmas scene or for decorations. Railroad N scale and dolls house scale meet at a point between 1:144 and 1:160 scale. These buildings are sized to fit in that range, the more realistic ones are set at 1:144 scale.
Printable miniature towers and castles for a Putz Christmas village or an N scale village railroad layout. The towers can also be used as dolls house scale toy castles.
Three printable cottages for an N scale railroad Christmas village scene in traditional North American Putz style.
Printable miniature dime store style church and bungalows for a miniature town, railway village, Christmas village, or Christmas tree decorations
Make simple miniature wreaths using wired trims for dolls house displays, Christmas villages, or as a decoration for a package or card. The same techniques can be used to make full size wreaths.
Make miniature mistletoe Christmas balls for dolls house scale scenes.
Make these easy scale Christmas crackers (Christmas Bon Bons) to decorate your dolls house table. You can make them in different patterns for other celebrations the rest of the year.
Gallery of miniature projects with a Christmas theme. Ornaments, wreaths, Christmas villages, buildings for Christmas railroads, miniature christmas trees, and many more. These miniatures can be used on regular trees or with scale scenes.
This free printable miniature of an 18th Century almshouse in 1:144 scale can be built for a dolls house scene or used for an N scale railroad or Christmas Village.
Make a printable 1:48 scale paper building or glue the paper exteriors and interiors onto wood to create a quarter scale dolls house, shop for a Christmas village or O scale railroad.
Make miniature trees, wreaths and garlands for 1:144 scale dollhouses, a miniature Christmas village or an N scale Christmas railroad layout.
Make an easy spiral tree from wired trim for a contemporary dollhouse scene or a stylized Christmas village display.
Make printable 1:144 scale shops with two floors and finished interiors. These little buildings can be used for micro scale dolls house scenes, as Christmas decorations for a miniature village or ornaments or scaled slightly smaller to create 1:160 or N scale railway buildings.
Make a printable 1:144 scale shop and a house with three floors and finished interiors. These little buildings can be used for micro scale dolls house scenes, as Christmas decorations for a miniature village or ornaments or scaled slightly smaller to create 1:160 or N scale railway buildings.
Instructions to make a realistic miniature Christmas tree for a dolls house, railroad scene, or Christmas village using a basic bottle brush or bottle brush tree and preserved lycopodium (princes pine or erica moss) greenery.
Miniature Christmas tree ornaments for dolls house, railroad, or Christmas village scenes are easily made from a variety of beads. Garlands, angels, crystal balls and stained glass balls and stars can be made using beads as a base.
Use Sakura glaze pens to color pierced metal beads for miniature Christmas tree ornaments.
Information about Snowbaby collectibles from About.com Antiques Guide.
Pictures of Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples Italy showing the presepe, or nativity scenes the area is famous for. From the About.com Guide to Italy Travel
Bill Egan's International Creche School Site is down, but you can see his work on Flickr. Many of his how to's now appear to be posted as videos on You Tube listed under
Creche SchoolHopefully the written instructions will return!
Howard Lamey of Little Glitter Houses has a wealth of instructions and how to's for making glitter houses, and tin type buildings for miniature villages and toy train villages. There are lots of downloadable plans and instructions here.
How to plan layouts for Chistmas trains in small spaces or around trees. Includes information on several train gauges, as well as routing the trains through Christmas villages.
A site devoted to the art of the paper creche and paper ththeatre. Many free printables.
List of variations and 'mistakes' in Dept.56 Collectible Christmas Villages.
Article describing nativity scenes from around the world, their history, how they are displayed and what they are made of in various traditions.
