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A Real Miniature Christmas Tree for the Gnomes

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Forget the birds, this sweet little mushroom tree is for the gnomes! I made this miniature tree with glass mushrooms, an outdoor conifer, and a plant pot made out of a tiny bucket. It is meant to be kept outdoors in the garden with the garden gnomes.

I’ve been obsessed with miniatures, and I know I’m not the only one. It seems everyone is enchanted by the ordinary turned small and adorable.

I originally made this mushroom tree many years ago, and it remains one of the cutest Christmas crafts I’ve done. While I originally made it around the holidays, it’s one of those projects that can carry on all year-round, depending on how you style it.

Let’s get crafty!

This plant is only six inches tall!

How to Make a Miniature Christmas Tree With Mushroom Ornaments

This one is a super simple craft, so it’s easy to do with the little ones, make in mass to give as Christmas gifts, or for a quick crafting afternoon with the girls!

Materials

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Miniature plants need to be watered often, as the soil can’t hold much moisture.

Make It!

The first step is to create some drainage in the plant pot. I’ve used a tiny white metal bucket sold as a set of three. It was purchased from a wedding supply shop as it’s meant as a wedding favour. It is also a perfect plant pot to fit a small one-inch nursery pot!

Add drainage to the pot by using a hammer and nail to simply poke some holes into the bottom of the pot. I did three holes to make sure that there was plenty of drainage in my rainy winter climate. Then put the plastic nursery pot inside the white bucket, and your tree is ready to be decorated.

Drainage holes are important for any potted plant.

Decorating the gnome Christmas tree is as simple as decorating a regular Christmas tree. Well, in fact, it’s much easier because this tree is teeny-tiny.

First, wind a length of red and white baker’s twine around the tree.

Tinsel ribbon would also look super cute!

Then add the mushroom ornaments by using the pin attached to the bottom of the mushroom and pushing it through the tree.

Add some reindeer moss to the bottom of the tree to hide the soil.

Feel free to adorn with other small miniatures.

Set the miniature tree out in the garden so that the garden gnomes have something festive for the holiday season.

While this mushroom tree is the perfect size to go along with garden gnomes, I have to admit I didn’t actually have any garden gnomes! Thinking quickly, I made a few with twigs and a little bit of paint. And I came up with a brilliant way of making the pointy hats (If I do say so myself). You can see how to make these twiggy gnomes in this post.

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December 12, 2025
Miniature Evergreen Wreath Ornaments (From Real Plant Clippings) – Garden Therapy

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With just a snippet from an outdoor evergreen, you’re well on your way to making these miniature wreath ornaments. You can hang them on the tree, use them to decorate the outdoors, add them to gifts, or even use them as napkin rings! No matter how you use them, they are a fun and simple project to bring the outdoors in.

Every year, I make a large fresh wreath to adorn my front door. By the end of creating, I have endless bits and pieces of fresh evergreens covering my feet and work station.

Why let them go to waste when you can create even smaller, miniature wreaths? I’m obsessed with all things mini, and I love how easily you can make these miniature wreath ornaments with some leftover plant trimmings.

Let me show you how I made these!

Adorn your miniature wreath with a pinecone or other dried elements.

DIY Real Miniature Wreath Ornaments

I don’t really know why, but this holiday season I’ve been making everything in miniature. It started with these tabletop Grinch trees, and now miniature evergreen wreaths.

The idea for mine came from finding this floral wire with red berries on the ends. I thought it would be a quick and easy way to make plenty of decorations from garden clippings.

Materials

Make It!

Start with a fairly pliable clipping from an evergreen. Leaves from cedar and false cypress are soft and easy to form.

Bend the clipping around so that the tip overlaps the cut end. Wind floral wire tipped with red berries around the two ends to secure it.

Secure the one end first. Then we’ll wrap the rest.

Continue wrapping wire around the wreath until you have all the little leaves tucked in.

Don’t worry about some small pieces still sticking out.

Trim the wreath with scissors to clean it up and make a nice, round form.

Add decorative elements like seed heads, miniature pinecones, and other things found around the garden with a hot glue gun.

Pinecones are great, as well as dried flowers.

You can also use ribbon to decorate the wreath. This raffia ribbon makes an easy bow as you simply need to tie it in a knot, then unfold the ends of the ribbon.

Red raffia bow.

You can also find ribbon that looks like tinsel, which I wound around another miniature wreath.

Add ornament hooks to hang them on the Christmas tree or around the garden.

Or tie them to gift wrapping and add a little outdoors to your presents.

Aren’t these miniature wreaths just adorable? In my experience, they also dry well and can be stored again for the next holiday season once fully dried. Happy crafting!

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November 27, 2025