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12 Houses for Christmas Challenge

November 26, 2018 by Lucy 12 Comments

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Ready for some fun Christmas crafting to make these adorable little houses?

These next twelve days we're going to make 12 Glitter houses starting tomorrow November 27th. So you can make your own Christmas village, a Christmas wreath with little houses nestled in the greenery or even put them on your Christmas tree. These miniature houses are based on the traditional Putz houses which reached their peak popularity in the 1930s but remain very popular to this day.

Christmas Putz house No. 1 for 12 houses of Christmas

The first house for the 12 Houses of Christmas challenge. Doesn't it look like a fun house to make?

Most of the designs for these miniature Christmas houses have been inspired by the houses I found on Papa Ted's website - the definitive online history of these miniature houses. You can find the original Putz houses that I used for several of the designs on this page.

12 different free templates to make your own Christmas village

12 Houses of Christmas Challenge Starts November 27th

So starting November 27th, I will post the first house. It's a very interesting little cardboard house with 2 asymmetrical gables in the front shown above. Most of these houses are pretty small so you can fit them easily in your holiday decor - even on a Christmas wreath. And the patterns are simplified (as much as possible) to make it easier to create during this busy holiday season.

A New Pattern and Tutorial Each Day

Each day there will be a new pattern and a tutorial on how to make each house. All the patterns are free. Most of these patterns are in a PDF format, but there are a few that are in an SVG format. Eventually they will all be updated in SVG format for electronic cutting machines like a Cricut Maker. You can find them in my Paper Glitter Glue Library. Just subscribe to get the newsletter in the form below and you will immediately get the password to the library. In the library you can find these patterns and all of my previous patterns as well.

Get ready for some seriously fun Christmas crafting

So get your glue out, find some good cardboard, put a sharp blade in your craft knife (and be sure to subscribe to the newsletter if you haven't already) and we'll get started on the November 27th for 12 days of great crafting.

Here are the links to the 12 Houses for Christmas series (I will add one a day until we have all 12 Christmas houses):

  • First Putz house in the 12 Houses for Christmas series.
Front Christmas Putz house no 1 angled gold deer, green bottlebrush tree

The first Christmas putz house for the 12 Houses for Christmas challenge.

  • The Little Log Cabin - Christmas Putz House No. 2
Log cabin putz house angled with deer bottlebrush tree

Christmas House No. 2 for the 12 Houses of Christmas challenge

Twin Gable Front House - Christmas Putz House No. 3 pattern is in the library.

Green twin gable house in Christmas wreath

The Green Twin Gable Christmas Putz house simply decorated with two bottle brush trees

Christmas Putz House No. 4

Christmas Putz house no 4 teal and red version printable pattern and template

First version of Christmas Putz House No. 4.

Little Church with Side Steeple - Christmas Putz House No. 5

Little yellow church with side steeple front view with deer peeking around corner #putzhouse #putzpattern

Little Putz Church with side steeple

The Frosty Barn - Christmas Putz House No. 6

Frosty Barn Christmas Putz house in Christmas wreath - a little cardboard house to make for Christmas

The Frosty Barn Christmas Putz house is perfect to make for your Christmas village.

Round Arch House - Christmas Putz House No. 7

Rounded front arch Christmas Putz house no 7 in a wreath

Round Arch Christmas Putz house no 7 with snowy, glittered roof in a forest of bottlebrush trees. See the little deer peeking around one of the trees.

Happy Holiday House - Christmas Putz House No. 8

Happy Holiday House Christmas Putz House No. 8 - free pattern and tutorial to make this cute miniature Holiday house

The Happy Holiday House is the 8th house in the 12 Houses for Christmas series.

Swiss Chalet Miniature Christmas House - Christmas Putz House No. 9

 

Side view of the Swiss Chalet Christmas Putz house - a little easy to make cardboard house made for a Christmas village.

 

 

The Snowy Church - Christmas Putz House No. 10

Snowy Church paper church for 12 Houses for Christmas

The glittered deer is always looking about and ready to run.

The Winter Cottage - Christmas Putz House No. 11

Winter Cottage Christmas Putz House for Christmas house series

Make this cute little Winter Cottage with its red door and snowy roofline for your Christmas village

The Split Level Christmas House - Christmas Putz House No. 12

Front angle view of the Split level Christmas putz house #paperhousepatterns #putzpatterns #printabletemplate

Little Split Level Christmas Putz House to complete your Christmas village of the 12 Houses for Christmas series.

Christmas Winter Village Wreath

Make your own winter village christmas wreath with glitter houses

And here is the finished Christmas Winter Village Wreath with all the snow-covered little Putz houses. It's a great way to display your village.

Here is a set of little houses that one of my readers made

And here is a set of miniature Christmas houses that Mary (one of my readers) made and gave me permission to share with you. Aren't they beautiful? I love her colors and she made them work so beautifully together. I think there are 2-3 of the little houses that aren't my patterns.

Christmas Holiday Paper Houses 12 houses for Christmas

P.S. I have lots of little house patterns throughout my blog - just use the search bar to look for paper houses, putz houses, Christmas houses or whatever holiday appeals to you most.

Many of the patterns are available as both PDF so you can print them or in SVG format for your electronic cutting machines. So I hope you visit for awhile and enjoy the projects at Paper Glitter Glue.

Thank you,

Lucy

Pin to your favorite Pinterest board so you can remember where you found the 12 Houses for Christmas

12 Houses for Christmas paper putz houses

12 Days of Christmas Holiday House No. 1

Winter Village Christmas wreath tutorial putz house patterns

 

12 Putz Houses to make to decorate your Christmas tree or make a Christmas village

12 Houses for Christmas paper house pattern

12 Putz house patterns so you can make your own Christmas village or Christmas wreath adorned with the little paper houses

12 Putz Houses for Christmas challenge

12 New House Patterns to make your own Christmas village or decorate a Christmas wreath or even decorate your Christmas tree

 

 

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  1. Erin

    November 26, 2018 at 5:06 pm

    I am really excited about this, I loved the Halloween event. Can't wait!

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  2. Elaine Lawson

    November 26, 2018 at 5:27 pm

    This is the sweetest thing!

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  3. vicki cedillo

    November 26, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    yeah more houses I love houses

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  4. vicki cedillo

    November 26, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    I am not able to open the house directions. I keep getting sent to Pinterest. Sorry this is not fun maybe you can email me and let me know how to open the directions sorry

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    • Lucy

      November 26, 2018 at 6:30 pm

      I haven’t posted the tutorial yet. It starts tomorrow the 27th for the next 12 days. The picture at the bottom is just so you can pin it to Pinterest. I will email you later and tell you how to access the library. I’m at work now. Thank you for contacting me so I can make things better. I will also re-write the post to be a little more clear.
      Lucy

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  5. Shannon

    November 28, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    Really excited about this! For the past few years, I've exhausted all the patterns I've found online through other sites. Looking forward to some new stuff!

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    • Lucy

      November 28, 2018 at 5:55 pm

      I hope you like the patterns. Because I want people to be able to make them before Christmas they are relatively simple patterns. Let me know how you like them.

      Thank you, Shannon.

      Lucy

      Reply
  6. Pat

    December 02, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    Getting a late start since I just found the link, but I'll catch up! Thanks for sharing this!

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  7. Shirl Lundstrom

    August 11, 2020 at 8:56 am

    Lucy, thank you for these little buildings. I am currently making a few out of 65# cardstock to just get a feel for how they go together before cutting them out of something stiffer for the real thing! I notice in the Christmas church that the main building only has an option to cut all lines or score all lines. No big deal as I scored every fold line and hand cut the few lines that needed it. Just wanted you to know! I use a cricut maker and it took me awhile to puzzle through this!!! Also, do you have a simple universal chimney that would work on some of your houses? Maybe the original Putz houses didn't have them, but I love chimneys! Thank again. Looking forward to making a Christmas wreath like you did. I remember very well that Martha Stewart cover and was immediately envious. This year I intend to have "that" wreath!

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    • Lucy

      August 11, 2020 at 12:48 pm

      Thank you for finding that problem with the Christmas church. I will fix that in the pattern.

      You asked about a universal chimney for the houses in this series. You really can't do that because a chimney has to fit the angle of the roof and each roof varies. Eventually, I am going to write a book with this series of houses so there will be all sorts of variations and chimneys, but I don't have it done yet.

      I look forward to seeing your Christmas wreath. If you send me a photo, I will include it in the blog post.

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  8. Elaine M. Hoffman

    November 16, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    Hi Lucy, How do I find the pattern to your Putz house that is shown near the area where we get your Newsletter? I am interested in that slope roof. I is a white house with a red roof? I also love the Half Timbered, English Tudor house you have on here as well with the rocks on the bottom half of the house. These are the houses I love mostly. I need their patterns please. Thank you for your help with this.

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    • Lucy

      November 16, 2021 at 7:46 pm

      Elaine,

      I think the house with the sloped red roof is - called the Red Roof Holiday Cottage. And the Half-timbered English Tudor house is the Christmas Village house.

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