How to set up a small Christmas snow village 

Very well done, your little Victorian Village. I'm a Mexican lady of 75 . In Mexico everyone put up a Bethlehem village for the birth of Jesus. To most people it was just very plain but when we came to Chicago to live, my mom saw the abundance of supplies we had so she would make her village huge, on top of her dinning room sideboard. Instead of snow, she used dried moss on top of an aluminum base so that when all the moss was in place to simulate hills so she could build the sheep and shepherds, she would spray the moss with water and in a few minutes it would perk up, turn a nice green and we had grass. Every day she kept up her misting and we had a large Bethlehem Village. I continued the tradition when I got married and so did my sister. In time. I made ANOTHER scene in my house, a Santa Village with toys, trains and elves helping santa. It took me years to find the right little characters but I also had fun setting up my villages. You did such an excellent job with yours.Your village is all lit up too. Bet it looks gorgeous at night. Keep it up. Creativity abounds.

My grandmother used to love setting up and adding to her village collection every year. This is the first time since she passed 5 years ago that I am setting up the village to revive the tradition. Only thing... I had no clue where to start! Thank you for taking the time to make a quick, beginner-friendly tutorial. Your village pieces are beautiful.

I’m so glad I found your channel! Your voice is like a warm hug!

i bought foam board today...am going to glue pieces to it, making sidewalks out of clay, miniature flower pots, i'm putting in trees without leaves...just using small branches off my tree, going to make a miniature trellis, gazebo, fence around the village, i'm so excited

You did a great job explaining all of this. It looks like so much fun, and look how festive the village is. Thanks for the video.

I love your Christmas village ! Thank you very much for the idea! I used to set up on my kitchen counter but this year I will use a console! 😉

Beautiful 😍 This is what I ask for for Christmas this year. I have always wanted to do a Christmas village and I love what you did with yours. I would not have thought of adding the height like you did, thats a great idea.

beautiful. I, too, think trees make all the difference!

You did a beautiful job. Love the way you set up everything and it’s lovely to look at. Thank You.

Thank you for showing me (us) this is possible in a very small area. Beautiful and so are you. Merry Christmas to you and your Family.

I love the way you got it to look so beautiful. I set mine up in a bookcase and it was just not doing it for me. Going set it up on a table and mimic what you did somewhat. My village is about 20 years old so I weeded out some of the pieces that did not make it over the years and am left with 10 houses that I love and lots of things to go with!! Can't wait to bring the table down and start!!

I am hoping to set up my first village this weekend and this is SO helpful, thank you! 💚

You've just made me want to put up my village this year for the first time in 20 years. You've made it look amazing. Thanks for all your advise and tips.

Your village is beautiful. Well done. You gave me some good ideas for mine.

That was really helpful! My partner and I just bought our first bunch of buildings for a Christmas village, and this gave so many ideas. Thank you!

Thanks so much - have had a village for years and sometimes just skip putt on it all out but I won’t anymore - yours is so sweet and very well made- was throwing away styrofoam tomorrow but I’ll keep it for the next time I build my village - my teen grandsons helped this hear and loved doin it - going shopping for more trees? Merry Christmas and God bless your family!

Looks fantastic, especially when the lights came on. And the accessories and trees finish the whole picture. Nice work gorgeous.

Beautiful village, I really like how you setup and every piece, the trees really help, I like the little mailbox and phone booth.

Very nice! It’s a good inspiration to make a small villa. Thank you for sharing your Beautiful Christmas villa. Best regards from walnut Cree, California.

Thanks for letting me know about the playlist. Just what I needed because I have a small space to set up. I have 2 glass shelving units that I will display them on. Your tips really helped and I’m hoping it will flow well.

Enjoyed watching this so much. You're right, the trees make such a huge difference. 🎄🌲🎄🌲 I'm going out tomorrow to get some to add to my village. Thank you so much for sharing your cute set up.

This video was SO helpful! I am just getting started with my Christmas village and only have 9 buildings. Thank you for covering this topic!

How lovely. I have many buildings but haven’t put them up for years. Thank you so much. Maybe this year.

You are right trees are very important did it with my parents when I was a kid im now 30 and still doing it gets bigger every year love all your advice hope you do one this year again ❤

I love your village! It looks so beautiful.

Setting up my Xmas town over the next two days. Love your little village so much and it's given me ideas for mine. Thank you for posting!

I'm a Gramma too, I started my village about 49yrs ago of things that took place in our lives so it actually tells a story about our family 🤗

I just saw this on Friday and all I can say is thank you for all the great tips! On my way with my first village. I did not know how to display it before!

You are such a pleasant person Miriam. Thank you for bringing joy into the world.

Great Work on a small place, with really good ideas. Tha´s what I´ve been looking for. Thank you for this video ;-)

Thank you. This was very helpful to show me how I can fit more buildings on my piano. You taught me how to use foam to make hills.

I have some of the houses and decor and loved your way of putting a village together.

This is so lovely! I am planning to set up my very first village this year and have started buying decor and accessories. Your videos were very helpful! Thank you so much!

I asked for houses for Christmas and bought more after the new year. I'm hoping to get the accessories but it's hard to find people. Now I have the houses just laid out on the table. I can't wait to have a village for Christmas this year and improve it every year

Thank you for this video. So many others are far too complicated. I am not a carpenter or an engineer. This is a good starting point to begin the process of putting up a village that I can understand.

I just found your channel and totally in love with all your ideas... I have had a village for 28 years this Christmas. My original plan was to add a new building piece each year, but one year my mom and Nana gave me 11 pieces at Christmas... I was so excited. They are mostly Walmart brand and a few others she found at an Eckerd’s Drug store but they go perfectly. The last few years I haven’t wanted to put it out, but I tell myself no you need to. So i decided i need to change it up & started looking at youtube. Im totally inspired to revamp it for next year. My boys graduate this next year and i know its a ways, but I want to keep it going for grand babies someday and well it just makes me happy too! God bless and Merry Christmas!

Mariam, excellent work, thank you for sharing. By the way, nice introduction and close, pretty lady, wonderful smile, thank you for letting us see a little of your magic.

I just bought my first building for a christmas village. I can't wait to collect more pieces and do a setup. Thanks for your tips!

I use the top of my old secretary desk in the living room. I have the smaller houses, but I've always struggled to keep the people upright on the "snow", which is just the cotton stuff from the dollar store. I love your method with the paved walkway and will definitely be doing that moving forward. It looks so clean and it's functional too. Thank you!!!

Beautiful! Thanks for the tips.

Wow very beautiful!! Good job!

THIS is what I was looking for! Ty! Happy holidays :)

I love 💗 this .small village. Great job

Thank you Ms Merriam for the inspiration. Love it.

Oh my gosh this is beautiful!!! Good job, thanks for the tips!

Wonderful! Getting ready to set mine up soon. Thanks for sharing.

WOW,, very nice your Christmas Village 🏡🏡🏠 Set up,,I love it,,💗💗

Gorgeous. You make it look so easy.

Absolutely beautiful great job , Merry Christmas 🎄 ❄️⛄🎄

Thank u so much.I am going to make my first village this year,your video was very helpful!!!

Really nice set up... thanks for the tips

Thanks you gave me some idea about my own village...

So beautiful thank you for sharing 🙏🏻🎄✨

This was such a helpful video for me, as I have never done a village but would like to start this year. We just moved into a new house and are kind of struggling to find our way with our usual traditions in these new spaces. I hope to create a warm and sparkly scene to create a little magic and nostalgia for our family. The end result of your setup was so beautiful and gives me hope I can do something similar. Thank you so much!

Fantastic Miriam. Thank you for taking the time to share this. Great job. God bless you.

Awesome video! This helped me a lot with my village!

The Christmas Village Queen! 🎄👑 Thanks for the tips, I set up my first Village this year!

This was FABULOUS! Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!

And your little village will wow people.

Love it!!! So pretty!

This is my first time setting up a snowy village. My houses are way smaller than yours but following your method to see if I can pull it off. Thank you for sharing your methods.

Beautiful village💖 Growing up in NY I use to help my mother set up the christmas village. Now that I'm older and moved away (Indiana). I started my own village. I started 4 years ago with a set I bought at goodwill with my fiance. You should see my family and friends face when I display my village. 😀 its not big, but it shows my personal touch. Even my mother is impressed! I love to see African Americans setting up Christmas villages. Just subscribe to your channel. God bless you.

I do things differently when I put up a train layout at work for the employees. I don't use the styrofoam blocks, preferring to use that space for people or scenes, room for a Lionel bump and go trolley,or if you have room, loop of track. I too use the 4 or 5 light cord to cut down on plugs and wires. So start out by putting down a layer or blanket of snow. It looks like felt on a roll. Then put the houses down and put the lights into them. Plug them into a six way strip just like you do. They should light up. Then put in the battery powered street lights, like you, I use a power adapter. Put them on the house side of the street, hide the wire for the battery lights under the houses, so only the wire between the houses is exposed. The lights don't need to be glued this way. Once the lights are in the houses, the battery street lights are up, cover all the wires behind the houses with blanket snow, some call it buffalo snow, it looks like something you would stuff a pillow with. Now put some trees between the houses to further hide any wires, and to mask the depth of the snow behind the houses. Next, sprinkle some loose snow, it looks like shredded plastic, over the battery powered street light wires exposed between the buildings. If it done correctly, the wires and plugs for the house lights, the battery pack and adapter for the street lights will be covered and out of sight. Last, make a scene for the people by positioning them to show a story, last sprinkle more of the loose snow around the people. The loose snow comes in two flavors, one basic white, the other is iridescent white which I like better. I've also found that something that moves gives the display some life, like skaters in a pond, or hockey players on a pond, or even a windmill that rotates. Anyway that's how I do it. Just take whatever ideas you think will help you. Oh,the bump and go trolley is designed to run-on a straight section of track,but will also run on a loop. The trolly has a bumper at each end, and when it bumps the bumper at the end of the track it reverses direction and proceeds to travel to the other end bumper and reverse direction again. So it keeps going back and fourth. Just an idea. Merry Christmas!

Another good display, Miriam. Love the video.

Thanks for this video I have a small space and this works fine for me.

My mother who is 80 now is done doing her Dickens village so she just gave me everything, which is a lot. So I am watching your video to give me ideas. Thanks.. oh and I have lots of trees and shrubs.

I love your videos. You are awesome!!

Love it. Couple of more tricks - roadway - use a blow dryer to flatten the bumps out as a result of rolling it up for storage, the heat helps to flatten it. Another trick is using the TreeMote for your village. Acts like a remote without having to dig around to plug in.

Thank-you! I learned some great tips!

So lovely!

You make a small village beautifully in a small space. I luv it....🥰🌲

New subbie here.i love Christmas, especially if its vintage Christmas

Beautiful!

I started with villages 10 years ago, but haven't set up my village the last 7 years due to lack of space and 3 catzillas that kept attacking my villagers. I've missed it and will attempt to do my village again this Christmas. Thank you for the ideas!

Very interest and helpful video , thanks lady

Love your ideas

Beautiful! Thank You so much for sharing 🌹

Thank you for this video, so much great info! ~Stephanie

Very nice Thank u for your tips

Beautiful

Very cute!

Awesome, I learned some new tips from this, thank you,!!

Hi Miriam like you I also likes Christmas and I really like to make a Christmas village but unfortunately I can't because we can't buy those stuff. We are poor, my husband is only a carpenter . That's why I watch most of the video that create or have a Christmas village on it to make me happy.

Perfect thank you for making it so easy

Excellent!!

Beautiful 😁👍🏻

Super CUTE!

Now you will have me buying all manner of holiday village pieces. Thanks a lot New to your channel It is lovely and your work is amazing

thanks. i loved the idea

I love your channel!!!

This is so cute 😊

I love it!

Lady, you need to be doing voice anime !!! No joke ! Bless up !! and Merry Christmas to you, hubby and fam from Vancouver, Canada Cheers !🥂

Now i’m buying a 6 ft folding table to try it as well🎉🎉

Wow ty for sharing that video...

I mean wow, just wow!!!

wonderful tutorial thank you!

I love your videos ❤️

Just beautiful! I’m just getting started on RU-vid and posted a little Christmas Village too.

Hermosisimo felicitaciones me encanto