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12 Houses for Christmas Challenge

Lucy · November 26, 2018 · 8 Comments

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Ready for some fun Christmas crafting? 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. 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.

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

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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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Red roof holiday miniature paper cottage with deer and tree

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  1. Erin says

    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 says

    November 26, 2018 at 5:27 pm

    This is the sweetest thing!

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  3. vicki cedillo says

    November 26, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    yeah more houses I love houses

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  4. vicki cedillo says

    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 says

      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 says

    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 says

      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 says

    December 2, 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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