Wonderful windows
Turn your windows into a fairytale: 4 beautiful ideas for the dark season
Brighten the view from your windows by crafting playful winter scenes and motifs. Cut a city silhouette and charming snow rosettes from paper, and draw a snowy landscape and cheerful ornaments with window-safe markers.
Author Heli Ilkka, Anette Nässling
Images Paavo Martikainen, Satu NyströmNovember 28, 2025Lue suomeksi
Christmas ornaments and trees
Supplies:
- chalk marker
- glass marker.
How to:
- Decorating windows is easy with chalk and glass markers. Water-soluble ink wipes off the glass with a cloth. Plan your motifs first—or take inspiration from this guide—and sketch them on paper. Test the marker on the window to see how thick a line it makes and how the ink flows on glass.
- Steady your drawing hand and sketch the designs on the inside of the window.
Snowy landscape
Supplies:
- window-safe marker or paint
- stencil, tape, and scissors.
How to:
- Draw a snowy landscape with a window-safe marker.
- Add spruce trees, rabbits, or snowflakes to your scene. If freehand drawing feels daunting, make a stencil from a printed image, or tape the print to the other side of the window and trace it onto the glass.
Snow rosettes
Supplies:
- lightweight paper
- scissors
- string
- tape
- pencil
- ruler.
How to:
- Cut a 10 × 28 cm piece of paper (about 4 inches × 11 inches). Fold lengthwise along the long edge to halve it. Repeat the halving three more times to create even creases spaced about 1.5 cm apart (about 0.6 inches). Unfold the sheet back to full size.
- Now fold the paper into an accordion along the creases. Keep the accordion flattened and mark the midpoint of the long side with a pencil.
- Cut small notches on both sides of the midpoint for the hanging string.
- Trim both ends of the accordion into round or pointed tips.
- Then snip semicircles or triangles into both long edges, just as you would when making paper snowflakes.
- Tie a string into the center notches. Leave long tails for hanging.
- Open the accordion into a circle from both sides of the center string. Glue the edges together so it forms a round rosette.
- Use the string tails to hang the snow rosettes in a row or let them dangle in the window.
City silhouette
Supplies:
- heavy paper
- fine-point craft knife
- pencil.
How to:
- Start your city silhouette by cutting building and tree shapes from paper.
- Sketch windows and doors on the buildings and any details you like on the trees, then cut them out with a fine-point craft knife. Place scrap cardboard underneath while you cut. The shapes don’t need to be perfect—the skyline feels more lively when every line isn’t ruler-straight. Use heavy paper so the silhouettes stand up better.
- Attach the city silhouette with tape or reusable putty, and save it to reuse next year.
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