How To Make Our White Scandinavian Christmas Village

Today we’re sharing how to make
our White Scandinavian Christmas Village.
Use your cutting machine, our patterns and some white-as-snow cardstock
for a minimalist Holiday look.

Don’t you love driving around a tiny village in the winter,

looking at the houses and stores with windows glowing

and warm light spilling out onto glittering white snow?

There’s no need for twinkle lights when you have a natural scene like that!

But we happen to live in a place where we don’t get a blanket of snow in the winter,

so we’re going to make a paper Christmas village with battery operated candles

placed on white fur snow substitute

so we can enjoy a fairy Christmas village all for ourselves.

Want to join us?

How to Make a White Scandinavian Christmas Village

Supplies:

• an adult with a cutting machine*, or permission to use it by yourself
• our files for the Christmas Village
• 180 GSM or 65# cover cardstock*. Ours is all white, to go with our minimalist Christmas theme.
• tacky glue*
• remote tea light led candles*

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General Instructions:

1. Download our pattern files here. Fill in the form and ask for “Christmas Village 2021 Files.” There’s lots of them!
2. Load them onto your cutting machine’s design space.
3. Cut as directed by your machine for thick cardstock.
4. Fold building walls, roofs, and gluing flaps. Glue together as directed for each individual building.
5. Place a tea light inside

These are the two buildings we’ll work on today:

Grandma Murphy’s Cottage

Everyone calls the sweet lady in this cottage Grandma, and you never stop by her gate without an invitation to come in for a cup of tea. And for children she opens a round red and white sweater-print tin filled with reindeer- and star- and tree-shaped frosted sugar cookies. It feels so grown up to sit at her teeny-tiny table, drink tea from fancy china teacups, and talk about the cardinals at the feeding station just outside her window.

Schoolhouse

It’s strange to see the school after dark. Tonight it’s all lit up bright for the Christmas program, light spilling out the doors and windows onto the blanket of snow all over the schoolyard. Mr. Graderman came off the road this afternoon and scraped a big area for all the cars to park. Usually there’s only room for teacher’s car, because the students all walk to school. When he got finished there were 6 foot snowbanks on 3 sides of the parking area, making great tumbling hills. And snowball fight walls. But now it’s dark, and the cars are all parked, and the school is full of parents and grandparents. The students are lined up on stage singing Christmas carols. Girls eyes are sparkling, hoping their friends notice their new Christmas dresses. And boys are ducking their heads, embarrassed to be all buttoned up to their necks in stiff collars.

So there’s the two buildings for this post.
What do you think? Will you try making them?

If you have any questions, please contact us. We didn’t give detailed instructions, but we will if you need them. If you’ve never built a paper house before you might need more information. We’ll be happy to share more with you.

Otherwise, enjoy. These are fun.

And next week we’ll make the rest of the buildings. They’re awesome, too.

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