Olive Mi House Model-making Minature Home Kit

Olive Mi House Model-making Minature Home Kit

by Djeco

$58.45 /

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Paint, glue and assemble a miniature house, furniture and a panda character from one boxed kit.

🎯 Builds precision: precision tweezers and a fine-tip glue tube make children place tiny parts accurately
🎨 Encourages design choices: dry paints and a brush let children pick their own colour scheme for the wooden panels
🧶 Strengthens fingers: twisting pipe cleaners and handling thread and felt builds the finger control used for writing
🏠 Creates a keepsake: the finished house closes up with the character, furniture and accessories stored inside
📖 Guides the build: step-by-step instructions plus a video tutorial support children who work independently
🌿 Uses real materials: FSC® certified paper and cardboard, wood and felt, with no batteries needed

The Educator's Note

The tweezers and fine-tip glue demand controlled placement, which trains the same precision grip children use for writing and cutting accurately.
Painting, gluing, folding and character-making run in a set order, so it builds the habit of following multi-step instructions and finishing a project, which is hard to get from simpler craft packs.
Printed instructions and a video tutorial support independent work, and the closed house stores every piece, so the finished model has somewhere to live and keeps being played with.

Play Specifications

🧒 8 years +

Recommended for ages 8 years +

🎨 Artist

Creative Expression

🧱 Builder

Construction & Engineering

📖 Storyteller

Role Play & Imagination

🔇 Silent

No sound

🏠 Indoor

Living Room / Playroom

👤 Independent Play

Solo / Self-Correcting

🧳 Travel Friendly

Compact / Portable / Car-Friendly

🤏 Fine Motor

Precision & Grip

💡 Creativity

Innovation & Imagination

🧠 Cognitive

Problem Solving & Logic

The Educator's Note

The tweezers and fine-tip glue demand controlled placement, which trains the same precision grip children use for writing and cutting accurately.
Painting, gluing, folding and character-making run in a set order, so it builds the habit of following multi-step instructions and finishing a project, which is hard to get from simpler craft packs.
Printed instructions and a video tutorial support independent work, and the closed house stores every piece, so the finished model has somewhere to live and keeps being played with.

Play Specifications

🧒 8 years +

🎨 Artist

🧱 Builder

📖 Storyteller

🔇 Silent

🏠 Indoor

👤 Independent Play

🧳 Travel Friendly

🤏 Fine Motor

💡 Creativity

🧠 Cognitive

Paint, fold, glue and assemble a miniature home complete with furniture and a wooden-headed panda character called Olive. Everything needed is in the box, including tweezers, glue and a protective tablecloth, so children can work at their own pace. Suited to children from 8 years, when fine motor control and patience are ready for multi-step model making. The finished house closes to 14.5 x 16.5 x 5 cm, so it displays on a shelf or travels easily.

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Best suited to children who enjoy detailed hands-on projects and can stay with a task for a stretch.

Children aged 8 to 11 years who like craft, painting and making miniatures
Kids who have outgrown basic craft kits and want a project with several stages and a lasting result
Quiet, independent builders who work well from written and video instructions
Families wanting a weekend or school holiday project to share, with a parent helping on the pipe cleaner stage
Collectors of miniature worlds, as part of the Djeco Mi House range

Painting, folding and gluing in one kit

This craft kit hands children a real model-making project. They paint the wooden window panels, press out illustrated cardboard sheets, then glue and fold each piece into furniture and accessories for a tiny home. The result is a small world they built themselves, and that shapes how they play with it afterwards.

The work is detailed. Precision tweezers hold small parts steady, and a fine-tip glue tube gives them control over where each dab lands. Twisting the pipe cleaners and handling thread and felt builds the finger strength and control used for neat handwriting and craft work at school.

Building the character

Olive, the panda of the set, is assembled from a wooden head, two ears, pipe cleaners and felt, with a cardboard tool to help shape the body. The pipe cleaner stage is the trickiest part, and an 8 year old may want a grown-up for a hand early on. It is useful practice in following multi-step instructions and working through a fiddly step rather than skipping it. By 10 or 11, most children build the whole kit on their own and are ready to move on to other Djeco Mi House designs or more detailed model-making.

A finished world that fits in your hand

Once complete, the house closes over its contents, with the character, furniture and accessories tucked inside. Measuring approximately 14.5 cm x 16.5 cm x 5 cm when closed, it slots onto a bookshelf or into a backpack without taking over a room. Open it up and it becomes a small stage for storytelling.

The included step-by-step booklet and video tutorial let children from 8 years work independently, which suits quiet weekend afternoons and rainy-day sessions. Paint colours are the child's own, so no two finished houses look alike. It is the right next step for a child who has outgrown simple craft packs but is not ready for hobby-grade model building.

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Why gift givers choose this

Everything Included from paints and brush to tweezers, glue and a protective tablecloth
Quiet, Focused Play that suits a kitchen table or bedroom desk
No Batteries Needed and no extra craft supplies to buy beyond a cup of water
Display-Ready Result that closes up and measures just 14.5 x 16.5 x 5 cm
Clear Guidance through printed steps and a video tutorial for independent work

Included in the box

1 resealable miniature house, 2 wooden glazed panels, 1 dry paint palette with brush, 1 protective tablecloth, 3 pre-cut illustrated cardboard sheets, 3 sticker sheets, 4 pipe cleaners, 1 wooden head and 2 ears, 1 spool of thread, 1 pre-cut felt sheet, 6 brads, 1 cardboard assembly tool, 1 pair of precision tweezers, 1 tube of fine-tip liquid glue and illustrated instructions.