Music box with rotating gnome door

Create a magical atmosphere in your home in the run-up to Christmas with this homemade music clock . These detailed step-by-step instructions show you how to recreate it with small accessories and a little paint.

Making a wall and door
The partition wall at music clock consists of a gnome door and a self-made wooden spatula wall.

Place three wooden spatulas next to each other and glue them together with VBS handicraft glue together. Once the glue has dried, position the window from the gnome door set on the wooden spatula wall and outline the contours with a pencil. Cut out the window opening with a cutter knife and ruler.

Cut a spatula with scissors to the length of the window. This will be the windowsill. Glue the window and the window sill into the cut-out window opening. Then glue the wall to the door. As soon as the glue has dried and thus developed its adhesive strength, paint the window and door on both sides according to your personal taste with the VBS handicraft paint.

Make the curtains by cutting an approx. 2 cm wide strip of white craft felt in the middle. Glue both strips to the top of the window with hot glue and shorten the felt strips as desired. Tie the ends together with some cotton cord .

The fir garland consists of 2 green chenille wires. Twist them together and wrap them with part of the chain of light. The rest of the chain of light will be used later in the interior. Glue the garland to the door and the wall with hot glue.

Then attach the door wreath to the Secret Santa door with hot glue. If you stick a small dot of paint straight from the tube directly onto the door, you will get a circle that will make a pretty doorknob.

Design the floor
For the wooden floor in the interior, glue 4 wooden spatulas (next to each other) together. Once these are dry, place the music clock on top and trace the contours of the curve. Cut the spatulas to size and glue the floor covering you have made to the music clock and paint it.

Glue the wall and door in the middle of the music clock, directly to the edge of the floor.

music clock decorate
First paint a "path" in front of the front door.

Then create the "interior" in front of the window by sticking a fruit staircase and a miniature Christmas tree on top. Wrap the rest of the chain of light around the tree and place the cable in front of the wall on the "outside". You can glue the battery compartment directly in front of the wall on the floor.

Now use hot glue to attach the scarf, hat, shoes and the bag to your decoration.

Cover the battery compartment and the base plate on the "outside" with Iceland moss. You can also easily fix the moss in place with hot glue.

Glue the post box to a wooden stick and also glue this to the base plate. You can also fix the ladder, the tree and the wooden shoes to the music clock with a little hot glue.

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Have you already found a place in your home where you can present your new Christmas decorations as a new eye-catcher? We wish you lots of fun crafting!