Make a Miniature Gardening Set 🌱 Pots, Seeds, Bulbs & Tools for Your Dollhouse

Create Your Own Miniature Gardening Set! 🌱
In this video, I’ll show you how to make a tiny gardening kit for your dollhouse — complete with miniature pots, seed packets, potting mix, flower bulbs, and adorable gardening tools. It’s the perfect DIY project for spring, plant lovers, or anyone who enjoys crafting in 1/12 and 1/6 scale!

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What you’ll see in this tutorial:
– How to make realistic mini terracotta pots
– DIY seed packet printables
– Creating tiny flower bulbs and soil
– Making dollhouse-sized gardening tools from simple materials

Whether you’re decorating a dollhouse, building a fairy garden, or just love miniatures — this set is a charming touch to any tiny scene.

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[Music] Hello, I am Maggie and today we are making a full gardening set. The sheets that I use are in one6 scale for Barbie size dolls. You’ll find them in the description of this video. I share the files for free so that you can craft along with me. I printed the sheets on regular printer paper, not card stock, so that I can fold them with ease. So, let’s get started. First, cut out everything from the template. For this project, you will need white craft glue, a paintbrush, tweezers, craft pegs, leftover aluminum foil for cooking, the paper cutouts from the template, and something very interesting that I found out looks super similar to miniature flower bulbs. Can you guess what that is? This is buckwheat. The buckwheat is sold in grocery stores and personally I use it for salads. All right, let’s continue with our tiny project. First, we will make these cute tiny open boxes with flower bulbs. See how the buckwheat is securely attached and it does not fall even if the box is upside down. Bend on the lines to form the box. Use white craft glue to glue down the tabs. The boxes have a special design so that they have additional walls for support. Fold and glue those walls to the inside of the box so that the box becomes stronger. Repeat for all four walls of the box. Fold the flower label in half and glue it to the box. I press with tweezers because this box is so tiny my fingers don’t fit. I made the other two boxes to be ready to fill with the tiny flower bulbs. For this, I mix the buckwheat with a generous amount of glue. I’m using the paint brush to transfer the buckwheat into the box, pressing gently as I go so that everything glues down together nicely. Once it’s dry, it has this beautiful glossy finish and there is no risk of spilling the seeds all over the room. I quickly fill the other two boxes. [Music] This table I did in the dollhouse living room video, so I will use it as a potting station today. These old newspaper sheets you will find in the free sheet for print. I will lay them over the table so that it looks like Barbie will start replanting soon. Next thing that we will make are these super cute tiny bulb bags. Just fold on the lines. Glue the top on the side and the taps on the bottom. I fill the package with buckwhe seeds. Bend the sides of the package inwards. Then I use my tweezers to bend the top edge of the package twice so that it has a nice finish on top. Apply glue on the top edge. Bent once. Then apply glue again and bend one more time. Use craft pegs to hold until dry. All right, I made all three packages. Remove the packs and place the tiny little box onto the potting table. Next, we are going to make this beautiful cacti book. As with most of my book designs, this one also has a cover support template that you need to glue inside the cover. Next, fold the pages accordion style. The first page we will glue to the front cover while the last page we will glue to the back cover. Fold the other pages so that there is no empty page. Gluing the pages of each row together. Last page of the first row to the first page of the next row. Glue all pages to the book cover. I made this little book using beautiful cactus illustrations from the 1800s. The pictures come from the work of Charles Antoan Leer, a French botonist who loved cacti and spent much of his life writing about them. He worked with talented artists to create some of the most detailed and beautiful cactus books of his time. The drawings were carefully painted and engraved, and they’re now in the public domain so I could include them in this tiny version. I made this cute little cacti out of polymer clay so I will use them today in my mini display. I also have these tiny scissors. I’ll put them on the table so that Barbie can cut out the bags with potting mix that we will make in just a while. Before that, I will make several tiny seed pockets. We have some vegetable seed pockets and some flowers. Fold the tops. Fold in half. Glue the sides and the bottom. And leave the top open so that we can put in some chia seeds. It makes this nice soft rattling noise just like a real seed packet would do. I made all eight packets that are included in the sheet. Next, I use tiny coffee steering sticks to make a small wooden crate for the seed packets. The size of the crate I’m going to make will be 2 cm by 3 cm. So, I will measure and cut seven pieces at 2 cm and seven pieces at 3 cm width. I cut the pieces with wire cutters and sand the ends of each piece with a nail file. To make the small crate relatively straight, I use tape to secure three of the wooden pieces onto the craft board. Apply small drops of glue on both sides and lay on top two of the 2 cm wide pieces. Wait for a couple of minutes to dry. I remove the tape and glue one more 2 cm piece in the middle. Next, I glue four more pieces to the sides of the bottom of the crate. Wait again until dry and glue some toothpicks inside on the four corners of the crate. Wait again until they dry. Make some coffee. Glue the other four pieces on the four sides between the four toothpicks, leaving space between them and the first four walls. Again, wait until dry. Cut out the top edges with the wire cutters and send with the nail file. Once the crate is done, fill it with the mini seed packets. How adorable. I think it would be better if I had two more seed packets, but that will work, too. Now, no poting station is complete without the pots, of course. There are probably tons of videos on YouTube on how to make miniature pots out of clay, out of plastic cups, out of scraps, but today I will show you how to make them out of strips of paper. It is based on the quilling technique. I cut out strips of orange paper. Wrote the first one around a toothpick. Then continue rolling. Added a second strip like this. They must overlap. Or you can always glue them to one another. Then continue rolling. Okay. What a nice little pot this is going to be. Once you are happy with the size of the circle, you can start shaping the pot by pressing the center of that shape to the outside. Press gently little by little. Finally, press the pot against the table to shape the bottom flat. I am quite happy with the result, so I apply a layer of glue to the inside. This is very important so that the pot stays as it is without losing its form by any pressure over it. I wrap two more strips of paper around the top edge so that it starts to look more like a pot. [Music] All righty. This looks already quite good. I really enjoy this bright sunny orange color. I made one more pot that is middle size and it is still drying. As I said, I really like this color. You may leave it as it is, but I’m very curious if I will be able to paint these pots to look like terracotta pots. So, I start by mixing brown, red, and white acrylic colors and paint the pot from the outside, then from the inside, of course. All right, it doesn’t look too bad. I will try adding some white brush strokes to look like the mineral deposits left behind by water on the terracotta pot. They usually appear because of hard water. Such water contains minerals like calcium and magnesium that soak into the porous terracotta. When it evaporates, it leaves behind white crusty or powdery stains. So, I’m trying to imitate this. I left them to dry for a couple of minutes, and this is the final result. Actually, I quite like them. They look pretty good and realistic. Actually, I even like the paper rings that appear visible. Many terra cotta pots are made on a potter’s wheel. As the clay spins, the potter shapes it by hand or with tools. This process often leaves behind circular ridges or bands as a natural result of forming the pot. These rings can be subtle or quite noticeable depending on the technique, so I don’t mind that my pots have rings, too. This is a piece of artificial plant that I have at home. It looks like a succulent if I only remove those leaves. I will leave it on the table for my Barbie to plant in the pot once she has some potting mixture. So, now we are going to make some bugs with flower soil. Fold on the lines and glue the bottom and the side tabs of the potting mix template. This is leftover aluminum foil that I will use to fill the back to the middle. I will fold the top part of the package twice and glue it down. The first potting mix bag is ready. Now for the second one, I will folding glue exactly as I did for the first bag, but this time I leave it open on the top. After I fill the back with aluminum foil to the middle, I cut the sides and fold them to the inside just like a real bag of soil is open and used. Add a generous amount of glue and pour some ground coffee on top. I use a small spoon to distribute the coffee evenly. It looks just like soil and it smells so delicious. Now, the last piece of the puzzle. No potting station is complete without some potting tools, of course. I will make a tiny troll out of a tealight candle. I will cut out a small rectangle from the aluminum container and shape it with my scissors to look like the throw part that is used for digging. For the handle, I’m going to use one of my round wooden sticks. Let’s see if I can make a small hole in it so that I can attach the aluminum part safely. I am using the tip of my own nail scissors to make a hole. Next, I add a super small drop of hot glue into the hole and put the shovel part to stick. I use my wire cutters to cut the wooden dowel stick. I will sand the edge with a nail file the best I can to make it round. Next, I use green acrylic paint to paint the handle. [Music] And this little thing is even working. If you love miniature crafting and want to explore more, be sure to visit my Etsy shop where you’ll find over 100 beautifully designed digital files in 16 and 112 scales, perfect for your next project. I’d love for you to join our creative community and bring these tiny treasures to life. Thanks so much for joining me today. Check out this next video if you want to see how I made the miniature table I used all the way in this episode. Bye. [Music]