How to Make a Dollhouse Plant

Add some life to your dollhouse and add a potted tree. Here's how it's done.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Metal bottle lid
• Aluminum foil
• Soil
• Straight twig
• Twig with several tiny branches sticking out of it
• Green construction paper
• Glue

Dollhouse Summer Tree

1. Take a metal bottle lid and wrap aluminum foil completely around it, preserving its form.

2. Fill the foil-wrapped metal bottle lid 2/3 full of real soil.

3. Insert a 4-inch-tall twig firmly into the soil so that it is perfectly straight up.

4. Cut a treetop shape out of green construction paper.

5. Use glue to attach the treetop to the twig, then allow it to dry. Place the tree in the dollhouse with the full twig side facing the wall.

Dollhouse Winter Tree

6. Take a metal bottle lid and wrap aluminum foil completely around it, preserving its form.

7. Fill the foil-wrapped metal bottle lid 2/3 full of real soil.

8. Insert a 4-inch-tall twig with several tiny branches sticking out of it firmly into the soil, so that it is perfectly straight up. Place it in your dollhouse.

Tips & Warnings

• Other fun ideas for the tree pot: a cork, shaped tinfoil, soda bottle caps.