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.
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 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):
The first Christmas putz house for the 12 Houses for Christmas challenge.
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.
The Green Twin Gable Christmas Putz house simply decorated with two bottle brush trees
First version of Christmas Putz House No. 4.
Little Church with Side Steeple - Christmas Putz House No. 5
Little Putz Church with side steeple
The Frosty Barn - Christmas Putz House No. 6
The Frosty Barn Christmas Putz house is perfect to make for your Christmas village.
Round Arch House - Christmas Putz House No. 7
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
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
The Snowy Church - Christmas Putz House No. 10
The glittered deer is always looking about and ready to run.
The Winter Cottage - Christmas Putz House No. 11
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
Little Split Level Christmas Putz House to complete your Christmas village of the 12 Houses for Christmas series.
Christmas Winter Village Wreath
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.
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 Putz house patterns so you can make your own Christmas village or Christmas wreath adorned with the little paper houses
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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Erin
I am really excited about this, I loved the Halloween event. Can't wait!
Elaine Lawson
This is the sweetest thing!
vicki cedillo
yeah more houses I love houses
vicki cedillo
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
Lucy
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
Shannon
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!
Lucy
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
Pat
Getting a late start since I just found the link, but I'll catch up! Thanks for sharing this!
Shirl Lundstrom
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!
Lucy
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.