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Make Miniature Plants for Scale Scenes

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Miniature plants are useful decorations for scenes. They can help set a time reference, and add to the background and color theme.

1. Make Miniature Roses

Miniature glass vase for a dolls house with an arrangement of pink paper roses.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

Miniature roses are a staple for floral displays, landscape displays for railroads, villages, and dolls houses, and useful as decorations for special gifts and cakes.

2. Make Miniature Tulips

Tiny reproductions of rare tulips; viridiflora and Silver Standard in dolls house scale.Photo copyright 2009 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

Make designer or cottage tulips using simple paper punches and these instructions. These are more detailed than the roses, but you can get good results and create a range of tulip colors and shapes.[/p]

3. Make a Scale Miniature Bouquet

A dolls house gardener delivers a rose bouquet for a miniature wedding.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

Not only for a dolls house bride! These little bouquets can be used with model horse scenes, or as cake or package decorations for a special celebration.

4. Make a Scale Miniature Chrysanthemum

Tiny potted plants can be used for dolls house scenes, or made in smaller scales for a floral display in a model railroad or village scene. They can also be used as fridge magnets, or given to friends with no space for full size plants.

5. Make a Miniature Window Box

Dolls house plants fill the interior of a painted 1:12 scale window box with heart cutouts. Photo copyright 2009 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.
[p]This window box or crate can be used to hold plant pots or planted up as a complete box. The instructions are for the box, not the plants.[/p]

6. Make Miniature Paper Mache Pumpkins

A roll of brown kraft paper makes a stem on the top of a dolls house scale paper mache pumpkin.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

These pumpkins can be made in many sizes, to house a dolls house scene, as the base for a Cinderella coach, or as table, railroad or dolls house decorations. Paper mache is easy to use and scale for all kinds of sizes of pumpkins

7. Make Scale Miniature Corn Stalks

Dried corn stalks and miniature pumpkins ready for a dolls house display.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

Useful for setting the season, corn stalks can be made in several scales, in green for summer, or beige for late fall, Thanksgiving or Halloween.

8. Make Scale Miniature Bull Rushes or Cattails

Four dolls house scale cattails made from a variety of materials.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

Another indicator plant, cattails are good for dolls house ponds, or to signify ditches and marshes in a railroad scene for summer, fall or winter. On their own, they are great for scale floral arrangements.

9. Make Realistic Miniature Evergreen Trees

Six inch high miniature Christmas tree with realistic branches.Photo ©2007 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.
Make realistic miniature spruce trees from lycopodium moss (prince's pine or erica moss)

10. Make Miniature Mistletoe Balls

A 1:12 scale dolls house Christmas kissing ball of miniature mistletoe.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.
Make mistletoe for oak trees, herb collections or Christmas balls

11. Make Scale Miniature Plant Pots from Paper Strips

Coiled paper strips make dolls house flower pots and flower bowls in a range of shapes and sizes.Photo ©2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

Easy to make from paper strips or quilling paper, these little pots can be made in many scales and shapes from just paper and glue.

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