2026 Mini Easter and Spring House Contest

1. Melanie - Chicken Coop Craziness

Look at what cool features Melanie has included in this delightful Easter submission! Chickens are plentiful at the Chicken Coop, and, from the house and the yard and all of the eggs you can appreciate the craziness! This is just beautiful!

2. Cathy - Olivia's Easter Bunny Book Nook

Anyone fortunate enough to have a book nook like Olivia's must be a happy person, indeed! Who doesn't want to rush right in and start browsing the book collection?

3. Judy - Miss Mayberry's Spring Cottage

It is hard to imagine including more rich color in a house scene than Judy has done with Miss Mayberry's Spring Cottage. There are magnificent shades in the house and the roof and shutters, but then look at the vegetation and the eggs. Gorgeous!

4. Cathy - The Easter Egg Hunt House

Cathy's Easter Egg Hunt House is a pastel dream with brilliant color throughout. Look at the beautiful porches, the bright windows and the rich vegetation! What a place to spend Easter!

5. Melanie - Butterfly Reveal

This delightful Spring scene is awash with color. I particularly love the baskets hung out front with the lovely bow and glitter eggs. The butterflies are surely delighted in such an incredible garden.

6. Jodie - The Chapel at Petal's End

The Chapel at Petal's End has such rich color! You can see it has served as spiritual home for many families and individuals for many decades. It exudes warmth and welcome. What a happy creation!

7. Dawn - Free Ice

Dawn's delightful little shop reminds that wintry weather can come even during spring! What a frosty little spring creation!

8. Karen - Vardo 564/Gypsy Wagon

This delightful little wagon is also a gift box! It doesn't have to just hold bunnies and Easter eggs, put whatever little goodies you like in it!

9. Paula - Spring Flower House

The yellow from the flower roof really pops in contrast with the tree structure below, but it makes such a delightful spring scene.

10. Joyce - Alleluja Day

It is hard to imagine a presentation with greater attention to detail than in Joyce's creation. It is probably the richest vegetation tour de force we've seen in a Paperglitterglue contest. Then the beautiful houses and the lamppost and the gazebo ... wow.

11. Shari - The Carrot House

This intriguing house is a bed and breakfast managed by "Peter Bunnington XII and his 22 children!" Wouldn't it be a delight to be a guest in this establishment!

12. Karen - Vardo 1 Easter Camping

Do you think Billy Corgi on the front porch knows the bunny is scoping him? This magical little trailer is also a gift box! The top opens to display your best treats.

13. Kathy - The Glass Menagerie

I want to stand with Ms. Bunny to savor this pastel house and dream! Such a Happy Easter, indeed!

14. Melissa - Treetop Haven

When has a contest submission instilled envy of butterflies? I want to go to this beautiful spring house and jump into the flowers and just pollinate!

15. Misti - The Hare Up There

The bunny ears background really features this little miniature house and scene to perfection. Such rich color! Love the deck and the grass. Very well named!

16. John - Bunnies for Nothing and Your Chicks for Free

If you have ever seen cooler bunnies and chicks than these, please let us know where! It is such a colorful and lively submission, everything with a human touch. The house and lamppost are incredible. You can see what fine attention and thought were invested in the creation. Great name, too.

17. Lynette - Bunny Bungalow

The bunny family looks perfectly at home at their beautiful bungalow! There is even a bunny inside the front door admiring the Easter gathering!

18. Karen - Dutch Windmill #3

There are so many cool elements to Dutch Windmill#3. The blades on the windmill look as if they double as rotating solar panels, so the energy generation could be multi-sourced. The flowers are delightful around the periphery of the Windmill, but also above on the catwalk. And the bunnies are my favorite.

19. Carol Ann - Evening Tea and Gossip

Who would not enjoy sitting with these beautiful birds for a chat over tea? Every element of these houses and the tea cup conveys the delight of the powwow. An excellent creation.

20. Sandy - Rose Arbor View

Here is a delicious little Easter house! The blue contrasted with the white and the roof just works perfectly, with a lovely garden to boot.

21. Melanie - Belinda Bunny Home for HomelessBunnies

This welcoming home is ready for Homeless Bunnies of every description! Surely there is warmth, safety and good food waiting for them in this beautiful little house, and a magnificent garden to play in!

22. Jean - Spring Break at Frog Castle

You know the castle is a happy place when all the frogs have gathered to greet you. They have awakened after a long hibernation to celebrate Spring break. What an imaginative creation!

1. Joyce - Village - Spring Valley is Ready for Easter

If you ever wanted to see a magical Easter village, this is it! Look at the beautiful houses, with all of the eggs and bunnies and ornamentation. The trees in the background are coming into leaf, and what a show they are.

2. Cathy - Village - Easter Blessings Village

There are so many incredible features in Cathy's Easter Blessings Village. Foremost may be how brilliantly lighting defines a colorful Easter scene. This amazing village glows, as if lit from within. Spectacular color and inspiration.

3. Beverly - Village - Easter Shamrock Village

We are so happy to see this delightful little Shamrock Village! What cute houses, so rich in color, with all of the flowers and eggs on the roofs! This is wonderful, Beverly.

1. Karen - JOC1 - Easter Box Cards

Karen's incredible Easter Box Cards remind us that the creative opportunities for paper crafters are limitless! Look at these wonderful creations!

2. Melanie - JOC2 - Easter Village

Melanie's Easter Village shows what joyous things you can create even if you aren't entering a contest! This village is so inspiring! Applause!

3. Eileen - JOC3 - Easter Critters

Elieen's fun critters demonstrate the kind of fun you can have in paper crafting without making a house! These critters remind me of Wizard of Oz!

4. Amy - JOC4 - The Egg House

I have spent years of my life dreaming about living in a shoe, and now Amy has got me dreaming about living in an egg with bunny ears! The Bunny Twins make it look so homey! Thanks to Henny Penny as well!

Spring is arriving here and most welcome it is! That means that it's time to celebrate with the next crafting challenge! I'm excited to announce the 2026 Miniature Easter/Spring House Contest. Please use this opportunity to showcase your creativity by designing and submitting your own handcrafted miniature house inspired by Easter and Spring. Whether you prefer pastel-colored cottages, whimsical fairy houses, or charming garden retreats, this is your chance to share your artistry and win some fun prizes! Or, simply make things for Joy of Creation sharing!

As we have done in recent contests, once again we are having a dedicated Village category in the Easter/Spring House competition. Just about every contest, some of the most amazing entries are village scenes. Historically, we just included a single view on the contest page. But now up to three photos will be posted for village entries. They are some of the most inspiring craft displays we ever see, so by all means take advantage of the fact that they have a category unto themselves. See the rules for that category, below.

Here's a great Spring entry that Judy made for last year's contest. The Springtime Chalet is a warmer season delight!

🏆 How to Enter

Submission Opens: March 3, 2026
Entry Deadline: March 29, 2026
Winners Announced: April 3, 2026

To enter, create a miniature house that embodies the spirit of Easter or Spring. You can use cardstock or cardboard as the main material for your house, Submit a photo of your creation along with a brief description of your design to my private Facebook group or email the photo to me - [email protected]. More details below.

Design Inspiration for Easter/Spring House Contest

Not sure where to start? Maybe ...

ENJOY! FUN IS WHAT IT'S ABOUT! The first day to enter the contest is March 3, 2026. Your entry must be in by midnight on March 29. I will announce the awards on April 3. We'll announce the winners here on this page, after all the submissions are posted here before contest end.

Remember the entry dates start March 3 and the deadline is March 29, 2025. Winners announced April 3.

And thanks in advance for entering. This is going to be FUN!

Prize List for the 2026 Miniature Easter House Contest:

• First place - $100 Amazon gift card
• Second place - $75 Amazon gift card
• Third place - $50 Amazon gift card
• People's Choice award - $25 Amazon gift card
• Village Category award - $50 Amazon gift card
• Whimsical award - $25 Amazon gift card, to a submission that characterizes a more whimsical version of the Easter/Spring season
• Innovation award - $25 Amazon gift card, for the submission with the most novel innovation. That can be part of a house or structure, or it can be an embellishment, or anything else super creative you can think of.
• Two Kid's awards for two separate divisions (10 and under, and ages 11-16) - $25 Amazon gift cards
• Village award - $25 Amazon gift card, to a submission that displays a village of houses and other structures to seasonal effect

(The Whimsical and Innovation awards will go to submissions that did not win in the top placings category, to expand the winning possibilities. Obviously any entry can win the overall awards, so they would win one of those and not a category prize.)

I reserve the right to expand prize categories and awards, and I always do this. Even I do not know what those special awards will be until I spend some time with the submissions.

Rules for the 2026 Miniature Easter and Spring House Contest

1. Have fun

Really, the entire purpose of this is to have fun and to share the fun. Simply make a house that expresses a Easter or Spring season theme or atmosphere and enjoy the process, the fine company.

To emphasize this point, the contest period is now open to what we call "Joy of Creation' submissions, of which we receive double digit submissions for just about every contest! Every year we seem to have members who just want to participate in the creative challenge, not the contest itself. We applaud this mindset, because it reflects the spirit of our group so well, where satisfaction is found in creation of little houses and scenes and in the sharing of that with friends.

Another possibility, as noted in Rule 8, you may enter up to three houses in the competition.

The Joy of Creation Option

We enthusiastically welcome and encourage Joy of Creation submissions because you may not be interested in competing for prizes - you just like to create and share. We want to see and appreciate what you make. In addition, we are not setting any limit on such submissions. Just please add the tag #JoyOfCreation when you post them. For that matter, these submissions can also be items too large for contest qualification, creations from previous years or even creations that are not houses. Express yourself! Do please name them. Names we pick are invariably more bland than names you would choose.

You are all so creative and imaginative, you're an inspiration!

2. Name Your Design

First NAME YOUR DESIGN! This helps the judges (and contest visitors) remember each design. It also adds to the design.

It's much better for those viewing your creation if it has a name. Some of the names of submissions in prior contests are incredibly creative. Naming your design enhances your submission, and is an avenue of creative expression in its own right. (There is no penalty for forgetting to name your house, it just means I will have to name it and it may be less imaginative than a name you could include. Naming your house is a creative opportunity unto itself.)

PLEASE WRITE A SENTENCE OR TWO (OR TEN!) ABOUT YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS, YOUR INSPIRATION AND THE LIKE. MANY PEOPLE REQUEST THIS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO LEARN FROM YOU. INSPIRATION IS CONTAGIOUS.

3. Three Ways to Enter the 2026 Miniature Easter and Spring House Contest

a) Post your house in the Paper Glitter Glue Facebook group with the tag #2026MiniEasterHouse. Please join this Facebook group so you can enter there. It's the best way to enter. (This is best way to insure your submission is captured without issue.)

b) Email me a photo on or after March 3. The address is [email protected]. Please include 2026 Mini Easter House in your email title so I can find the photo easily in my email box and include it as an official submission.

c) Follow me on Instagram and post your 2026 Easter house and tag me @lucyf7b on Instagram.

A note about submissions. It often happens that folks share their houses in the Facebook group prior to the beginning of the contest. That is fine, just please remember to either re-post it once the contest opens, or send me an email with a link to remind me about the submission. We won't start scanning for official entries prior to the start of the contest. But the house does have to be made during the 2026 calendar year (not necessary for Joy of Creation submissions). Too, if you are submitting a village for the Village category, some structures in the entry may be from previous years, except, at least one house must be from this year.

In submitting your creations, you are giving me permission to post a picture or pictures of your project on my website and social media just like I did for the Christmas house contest in December. I love to share your projects because they are all so remarkable. This allows all site visitors and guests to see your creations, which can help inspire them in turn. The usual convention is to post only first names with the house names with no personal information. If two members with the same first name post submissions, I usually add a single initial to differentiate them as being from separate people.

Finally, after you have submitted your house and we get the entries all posted here, please check to be certain that I have faithfully captured your submission(s)! Email immediately if I missed something or made an error with it!

4. Permission to Post Your House Photo on my website and on social media.

5. Size Limitation for the 2026 Miniature Easter House Contest

Here are the size limitations:

Base - no limitation on the base so you can landscape as much as you want, but the size of the house does have limitations

House height - no taller than 12 inches tall

Width of House - no wider than 12 inches

Depth of the House - no deeper than 10 inches

Villages or small groups of houses are welcome as long as each house is no bigger than the measurements listed above.

Note: It is much harder to take in all the details in one photo. We need one good photo for the judges to look at. Post as many as you like, but for the judging we usually have room just to include one photo. We plan to include more than one photo if needed/desired for village category entries.

6. Use any pattern you like

For your entries, you can use your own pattern, my patterns, patterns from my friend, Jackie of A Cottage in the Forest, Tim Holtz houses, or even a purchased pattern.

7. The house must be made of cardboard or cardstock

Your house needs to be paper-based - made out of either cardboard or card stock. No wooden houses. But you can use other materials for the base, landscape, and embellishments.

8. Creativity and Originality are emphasized

Creativity and originality are important and will be emphasized in judging. Hint: Let the fun shine through!

Also creativity in naming your house helps to make it more special. Please tell us a little bit about your house - how you made it, what inspired it, etc. We all love to read about the creative inspiration behind your projects. We are delighted to note that people are becoming much more creative with house names. It is a very welcome trend. In addition, it ensures the creativity you enjoyed most will be understood and appreciated.

9. You may enter up to 3 houses, but the houses must be unique and constructed in 2026

Up to three submissions, all of houses created in this calendar year. (Again, note, this rule does not restrict submission of 'Joy of Creation' houses, which are not eligible for prizes. That does not compromise our appreciation of them and you! And, you may submit as many Joy of Creation items as you like.)

10. Rules for submissions for Village category

Houses made in prior years may be included in villages submitted this year, but if you submit the same village for more than one year, it should include at least one house created in 2026. Though this is somewhat arbitrary, there should be at least three houses/house-like structures to constitute a village. You need not specify that your submission is a village. It will qualify if it has ... Can a village submission containing houses made in prior years be eligible for the overall? If not, then it should be a Village category submission only. If all houses are from this year then it could qualify as an overall contest submission as well as a village submission. Note, Donna's North Pole in the South village DID win the overall in 2023. "IF you use houses from previous years, please note that in the submission. Then your village may win a village award, but not the contest top three. Something like that, perhaps? Lots to think about. Perhaps a proviso that this is new, and circumstances may require spontaneous adjustments to the rules to keep things fair ... Impossible to anticipate every contingency ...

11. How to Vote for the People's Choice Award for this Year's Contest.

You will have one vote when you post a comment at the end of this post AFTER ALL THE ENTRIES ARE IN, VOTING STARTS ON March 3rd and lasts until midnight on March 29th. And you have another vote on my YouTube channel. Subscribe to get notifications of when we post the contest video. So! Two votes per person, if you choose to exercise them. Please note this is intended to be about fun and creativity, not competition. Vote for your choices, but please don't 'stuff the ballot box.'

GET THE KIDS INVOLVED MAKING A MINIATURE EASTER HOUSE!

We always love to see house submissions from your children (in TWO categories this year! Ages 10 & under and 11-16. Please note their age with the submission so I can get them properly entered in the correct category). Allow their youthful creativity to flow. The names of the children's submissions will be placed in a hat and drawn randomly. Those submissions aren't - and should not be - competitive. They should have fun with no other concerns! But we love encouraging them to exercise their imaginations and creative skills. Sadly, we had no submissions from children in the Christmas contest last year. Please encourage them to participate in making this!

Note: Prizes in children's submissions in the two age categories will be by a random drawing. No competitive pressure! No value judgments.

So that is the Miniature Easter House Contest for this year. Whatever you do, enjoy it! Enjoy making your houses and sharing them. That's what it is all about.

Deadline for submissions for the 2026 Miniature Easter House Contest is March 29th.

Deadline for photo entries is March 29 and the winners will be announced on April 3.

And if you would like more inspiration ...

Here are links to previous Easter House contests:

2022 Easter Miniature Contest

2023 Easter and Spring Miniature House Contest

2024 Easter and Spring Miniature House Contest

2025 Easter and Spring Miniature House Contest