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Easy To Make Super Cute Christmas Cloche

I have three boys who all love to snack on toast. Two are very English in their tastes, one being a Marmite lover and the other lemon curd. My youngest is slightly more continental in his taste and covers his toasts with Nutella.

The other day as I was putting away the Nutella jar after my son’s snacking session, I noticed that it looked like a mini glass-domed cloche. That gave me the idea for this craft.

I thought making a cute mini Christmas cloche scene would be lovely. In the past, I’ve made painted pine cone Christmas trees. And I’d spotted tiny pine cones in the park that would be perfect for this.

Rather than go down the traditional route of Christmas figures for my cloche, I made them more fun by using dinosaurs. The main reason I used dinosaurs is that I remembered there were still some in the kitchen junk drawer I had rescued from the Hoover many years ago.

I knew they would come in handy one day!

This is a very quick and affordable Christmas craft. In the end, I made three Christmas cloches (dinosaur terrariums), one for each son. That meant a lot of Nutella was eaten. However, I did find some great Nutella recipes on Pinterest.

These would make a fun Christmas craft to sell at Christmas fairs.
 
 

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Repurposed Nutella Jar Into A Cute Christmas Cloche (Dinosaur Terrarium)

What you need

  • Empty Nutella jar – The small jars with plastic cap lids that can be used as drinking glasses afterwards. If they aren’t in your local supermarket, try an Italian deli. My Italian deli always has this style of Nutella jar in stock.
Nutella jar small
  • Wood slices – Either cut your own or you should be able to buy these in any craft store. You want ones that are just slightly larger than the circumference of a Nutella jar.
  • Small pine cones
  • Mini dinosaur figures – you can, of course, go traditional and use Christmas figures, Christmas cake toppers would be good to use for this.
  • Gold spray paint
  • Green spray paint
  • Fake snow – I got a bag of this from my local pound/dollar store
  • Masking/sello tape
  • Hot glue gun
  • Craft glue
What you need to make mini cloche dinosaur terrium

How to make a Christmas Cloche

Step 1: First, spray paint your dinosaur gold. Then paint the pinecones green, so that they look like mini Christmas trees.

Gold spray painted dinosaur
Green spray painted mini pine cones

Step 2: Next mark off about 5 mm of the edge of the wood slice with tape. Then cover the wood slice in glue and smother it with fake snow.

When the glue has dried, remove the tape, you should have a snow-free edge around the wood slice. This will allow the glass cloche to sit nicely on the wood slice.

fake snow cover wood slice

Step 3: Next, using the hot glue gun, stick your dinosaur figure and pine cone tree to the snow-covered wood slice.

Glueing dinosaur and tree to woodslice for Christmas dinosaur terrarium

Step 4: Finally, just add the glass Nutella jar as the dome to finish off your Christmas cloche (dinosaur terrarium). I didn’t stick my cloche to the wood slice, but you can easily do this if you want to.

DIY Christmas Cloche, (dinosaur terrarium) using a repurposed Nutella jar.
Add some fun to your Christmas decorations by repurposing a Nutella jar and making a super cute min Christmas Cloche (dinosaur terrarium).
Add some fun to your Christmas decorations by repurposing a Nutella jar and making a super cute min Christmas Cloche (dinosaur terrarium).
Nutella Jar Christmas Cloches


 
 
These mini Christmas cloches are so easy to make and fun that I want to make more. I fancy making some with the tiny figures you get with model railway sets. I need to get my boys to eat more Nutella, which shouldn’t be too difficult!
 
Also, if anyone has any ideas for repurposing Marmite jars, I’d love to hear them.

 There is another idea for a DIY cloche with this paper parrot decor. Don’t forget to check out my other Christmas crafts, especially the upcycled Christmas ornament ideas.

Also, if, like me, you have a collection of old odd plastic toys the kids no longer play with, another fun thing to make with them is a toys frame medal board.

If there are a few stray Lego figures in the collection, they can be used to make a fun interchangeable Lego figure frame or some fun Lego push pins.

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Susan Homeroad Stevenson

Wednesday 28th of November 2018

These are amazing! Another reason to eat Nutella!

Claire Armstrong

Thursday 29th of November 2018

I don't need a reason to eat Nutella! Thank you!

Linda at Mixed Kreations

Sunday 25th of November 2018

Oh Claire this is such a cute idea! My grandson is into dinosaurs and he would absolutely love these. Would be a fun craft for him!

Claire Armstrong

Sunday 25th of November 2018

I think most little boys go through a dinosaur phase. All my sons certainly did!

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Monday 5th of March 2018

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Shannon

Saturday 16th of December 2017

I kind of want to make this for my boyfriend for christmas hahhaha It's SO cute! What a fabulous idea and thank you for sharing!

Claire Armstrong

Saturday 16th of December 2017

Thank you, I don't think boys ever grow out of dinosaurs.