Christmas Villages can be difficult to set up if you don't know how to use them.The information in this article makes things simpler.
Step 1: Prepare the room that you think will be the best place to receive the Christmas Village.
If you want to find the Village in, look for wide open areas.Make sure that there's room for a house or two in the area, and that the traffic isn't too crazy.Most people put their Villages in their living room or near their main entrance door.The right conditions can allow pieces of your collection to go into other rooms.If you cook with open flames, don't put these houses in the kitchen.
Step 2: There are places where these houses can be put.
Not all rooms have the same dimensions or room layout.Your entire Village can be put together if you have enough spots where you can place many different houses.If the fireplaces aren't used or if you can keep the cords out of the way, most people place them on the fireplace mantel.The Villages can be seen on boards around the house.Few people follow this advice.Either way is fine.
Step 3: There are kid-proof areas.
Kids love touching and feeling Christmas Village houses.Kids can be the cause of some of these messes and they can become very fragile and breakable.When the house falls and breaks into lots of tiny pieces, tiny fingers will always find their way into touching and prodding these buildings.Prepare your "decoration villages" in areas where kids can't spot these pieces easily, and also so that these houses can be bumped into and broken when hurrying out the door.The bathroom may seem okay.While it's not suggested that a large majority of the houses go there, a house or two and some smaller decorations can go in there as long as they can sit in a viewable area.
Step 4: Take each house out of the box and put them in the viewing area.
Step 5: There are Christmas village buildings with lightbulbs.
It will look like a house that has lost all of its electricity after an ice storm, and not very appealing to anyone who walks by the village house on occasion, if those that have lightbulbs are not lit to be effective presenters.
Step 6: Common sense can be used.
If you can't fit another small item on the area, it's time to move the village to a new place.
Step 7: Some of the additional houses should be decorated in other rooms.
Unless the room is a tiny walkway with no viable places to put them, spread them out into other attached rooms in the house.
Step 8: If possible, place schools, shops, banks and bakeries in the Village.
Village pieces can be found at some shopping centers, but you may have to look for them in bakeries and banks.
Step 9: There is a landscape to the season.
White felt draped overtop of all the mounting areas is one of the easiest ways to make the area look like it's ready for housing.
Step 10: Some of the streets and transportation elements should be placed where they work best.
Train and bus depots can be set up in some places.If possible, set down porcelain buses and trains.You can draw in some roads that are several inches wide if you don't mind writing on felt and having several feet of board and a few permanent markers.It should be three to four inches wide in some scales.You'll have to give up using a working train set if you want to use a fireplace, as mantels don't give a lot of room to work with, unless you can set up more track that allows you to run the rest of the track into the room or around the house
Step 11: Put up a place to live.
Smaller less-elaborate housing can be found in smaller rooms.
Step 12: Establish other town and village buildings.
Post offices, schools, fire stations, shops, and banks work well.
Step 13: When building next to each other, make sure the houses face one another.
Step 14: For your town people to play in the recreation areas, put them down.
Ice skating rinks can be made of aluminum foil or cardboard with a piece of a mirror.
Step 15: If possible, set up street lights near the streets.
People should be on these benches.Depending on what you have available, place mailboxes near housing and sidewalks at four-way intersection, traffic lights at intersections, and even some bridges across "drawn" water."There will be different sets and some may look nicer than others.
Step 16: People can gather in the town.
Put single people gathering on sidewalks, street corners, near mailboxes and almost any other place that could be considered an important place.Not all benches will ever be full of people, so leave some open.Unless you really want to be funny, don't show townsfolk in conglomerates where people may look like they are fighting.During this time of year, most people are peaceful and calm.)!
Step 17: People from small towns should be in the Village.
If you shrink to the size of your village and see it from a villagers point of view, you can put down animals such as dogs and sheep and cats.