How to Make a Garden Gnome: Easy Tutorial

If you have a garden, you can make a garden gnome yourself.

Consider involving your children or loved ones for a friendly moment.

You can make these gnomes in different ways, so that you can beautify your exterior. We have the ideal article for you that will help you.

How to make a modern garden gnome with clay?

The garden gnome is an accessory that everyone recognizes. We often see them in gardens, in DIY stores and at family parties.

But there is a current trend of creating modern garden gnomes. You can make your own using clay.

Here's how to do it for each garden gnome:

• Roll a 6 cm grey ball for the body
• Roll a 5cm colored ball for the hat
• Roll a 4cm white ball for the beard
• Roll a 1cm beige ball for the nose (to color them, just add the paint to your mixture).

Shape the gray ball into a cylinder that tapers slightly at the top.

Shape the colored ball into a hat, tapered at the top and open at the bottom to fit the gray body.

Shape the white clay into a triangle with rounded edges. Place it on the lower front of the body.

Layer the hat over the beard and body.

Place the beige nose in the center of the body, over the beard and under the hat.

Draw lines in the beard using a tool such as a toothpick. Bake for about 8 hours depending on the clay chosen.

Now you have some beautiful little garden gnomes made with homemade clay!

How to make a resin garden gnome?

In this paragraph, we give you the main steps to create a resin garden gnome:

1. Start by gathering the resin, silicone or plaster molds, color pigments, and modeling tools or other necessary materials.

2. Prepare your work area by protecting it with newspaper, plastic wrap, or other covering to prevent spills and messes in your home.

3. Mix the resin according to the instructions on the package you purchased. If you want a colorful garden gnome, add color pigments.

4. Then pour the resin into your mold. Make sure not to overfill it in case it warps.

5. Then let the resin harden according to the product instructions. This can take several hours or even days depending on the resins.

6. Once your sculpture is completely dry, unmold your gnome by turning it over and gently pressing on the sides of the mold. If the gnome does not come out easily, you can try to detach it using a knife or spoon.

7. Finally if necessary, use modeling tools to add details or to correct the shape of your gnome and it is ready to be displayed!

How to make a concrete garden gnome?

To do this, we advise you to follow the following steps:

• Step 1: Prepare the hair, beard and hat of the concrete gnome. It can be straw or pieces of string for the hair and beard. For the hat, there are some made of felt or canvas.
• Step 2: Make the body of the dwarf using a mold that you will fill with liquid concrete.
• Step 3: Let the body dry while you fill the head and nose molds (the molds will preferably be round, to know how to make one, go to the next paragraph).
• Step 4: Before it's completely dry, take a toothpick to draw the eyes, mouth and dimples.
• Step 5: When it's dry, you can paint your gnome with the colors you want.

• Step 6: All you have to do is glue the beard and hair with special glue and place the hat on the head of your concrete gnome.

How to make a garden gnome mold?

You want to make a mold for a garden gnome, but you don't know how to do it? It's very simple.

To begin, you will need a bag of plaster powder and water. You can find plaster at a sculptor's supply store.

Next, you will need a location where you can let the plaster dry in the shape you like.

You can take as much time as you need, as it can take several days for the mold to be ready to use.

How to make a paper garden gnome?

You will need a blank sheet of paper, a pencil, a ruler and a compass.

First, start by drawing lines that will make up the body of your dwarf.

Then draw the gnome 's head by making an oval above the body.

You will then finish drawing the dwarf's torso using the compass to have a perfect rounded shape at the circles.

If you don't have a compass, try to focus as much as possible on the curves of the torso, the same for the base on which your dwarf stands.

Then in the third step, you will have to start drawing the guidelines for the arms and legs which will be useful for us later. Again, the ruler and compass can help you.

N ext , you will have to draw the first lines of your dwarf's pants and jacket. As for the pants, try to make them a slightly rounded rectangle.

Then start by drawing the garden gnome's boots. Once the boots are done, move on to the face by making the eyes, cheeks and beard, his nose and his mustache.

Now you can make him his long hat so emblematic of garden elves. Don't forget to draw the belt of his jacket too.

And there you have it, your garden gnome is almost finished, all you have to do is add the shadows and color your drawing to make it even more realistic. For the colors, you can do as you wish. Each drawing is unique and the color palette is infinite, so your imagination is the only limit.

If you want simpler and more illustrated steps, read our article How to draw a garden gnome easily instead.

How to make a garden gnome house?

In this article, I will tell you how to build a gnome tree house.

When you create a home for garden gnomes, you open the door to imagination and endless creative play.

You will need a tree from your garden and five small wooden boards so that you can assemble them with glue and create your little house.

You will also need paint to paint these boards and give your cabin a magical feel. A little rope to attach it to the branch and there you have it!