Make Miniature Christmas Decorations and Displays

Use Glaze Pens, Glass Paints, or nail polish to decorate metal, glass or filigree beads and turn them into miniature stained glass ornaments.

Here's an easy project. These trees can be made from wired tinsel, ribbon, or beaded trims. Decorated with colored sequins or miniature ornaments they make a great addition to a Christmas village or a modern dolls house.

Fill your Christmas Tree with miniature animals. The needlefelt technique shown here makes a miniature dog or you can learn how to make a miniature needlefelt raccoon. You can use these instructions to make any other animal, including miniatures of your family pets using this technique. If you are unfamiliar with needle felting, there are two book reviews on this site: Little Felted Animals shows you how to make a number of specific animals and birds and Fleece Dog has instructions for making several specific dog breeds.

These tiny poinsettias made from wire and paper can be hung on the Christmas tree, used to decorate a Christmas village or a dolls house, or given as gifts to shut ins with very limited space for plants!

Make Miniature Poinsettias

This tiny Christmas cactus is made from wire, paper and paint. Surprisingly realistic it can be hung from a Christmas tree or used to decorate a Victoria dolls house parlour for Christmas.

Make a Miniature Christmas Cactus

Tiny or full size Christmas crackers can be made using gift wrap, tissue or Crepe paper and ribbon. A printable file for making boxes for 1:12 scale crackers is included.

These counted stitch charts for needlework or cross stitch Christmas stockings are worked over 42 HPI silk gauze to make stockings in 1:12 dolls house scale. They are easy projects for a beginning stitcher and can be made larger or smaller by using different size canvas.

Designs include:

• Cabins in the Woods
• Noel with Holly
• Leaping Reindeer

The designs are all available as printable pdf (acrobat reader files) which are linked to text in the pages listed above.