Miniature Floating House in a Bottle

Hello All,

In this instructable, I will share how to make this miniature floating house in a bottle. We will be recycling, most of the items commonly found at home...

• Cardboard ( Amazon delivery box)
• One popsicle stick
• Old Chutney bottle or glass jar
• PVA glue or fevicol
• Acrylic colors and paint brushes
• Cutter and scissors
• Coco peat - small amounts
• Wire
• LED

• The base is like a domes shaped piece of land with flat top surface
• To create this, cut few circles of cardboard as shown
• Stick each cardboard in descending order
• Make sure that the base size is much smaller then the neck of the bottle
• The base will be stuck at it's back to give the floating illusion
• So we have added additional flat cardboard as shown
• Let this dry for 30 minutes
• Now apply PVA glue or fevicol on the curves side of the base and stick coco peat to it
• You could use colored sand or dirty as well
• This needs to dry for 1 hr and then apply 2nd layer of coco peat

• I have used a large popsicle stick to make the house, It is about 0.5 " in size
• Cut house walls from popsicle sticks
• Use paper tape to hold the walls in position and stick the house walls using glue
• After drying, add cardboard (corrugated box) roof
• Using Arcylic paint, draw windows, doors and paint the walls and roof

• Take few pieces of wire (3")
• twist and turn to make tree like figure
• Remember to add wire loops at the end
• Paint the tree brown using acrylic paint

• To prepare green grass and leaves, I used Coco peat and colored it using green paint
• I recommend to use lighter shade of green as, the coco peat will darken after it dries
• After coco peat is dried, I filtered smaller particles an used them as leaves or grass
• Apply glue on the tree and dig it in colored coco peat
• Let it rest for 10 minutes and repeat few times to get thick tree look

• Add moss or creeper on the roof and walls using glue and sprinkling green coco peat on it
• Once this is dried, using a tooth pick clean excess coco peat to make prominent lines etc
• Stick the house on the base
• Apply glue around the house and sprinkle green coco peat as symbol of grass
• Stick the tree on the side of the house
• Let everything dry

• Gentling push the house and land inside the bottle
• Glue the land on the bottle, remember we have to stick it at the back, to give the floating effect
• Add a led and cover the neck using cardboard cap

Hope you liked this project, Please share your comments or suggestions