Easy Christmas Cloche Ideas

Happy Monday!  Can you believe that in just one week we will be in the midst of Christmas day celebrations!  I know it’s hard for me to believe that it’s almost here.  Today I’m sharing a few quick decor ideas using a cloche.  When referring to a cloche, I mean anything with a glass dome.  Don’t be concerned about finding a real deal cloche!  Stores like HomeGoods, Marshall’s and TJ Maxx always have pretty glass domed cheese boards or even a footed glass domed cake stand would make an amazing cloche!  And, a cloche makes a great gift too!  If you use a glass domed cheese tray, the recipient could use it for Christmas decor and then use it as it was intended.   I don’t know if it’s because a cloche reminds me of a snowglobe, but putting an object under glass seems to make it magical!   So, here are a few cloche ideas – some are from this year and some from many years ago.  I hope you enjoy and will think about popping something ordinary under glass to capture the magic!

This concrete bunny on a bed of moss with some artificial snow sprinkled around it makes a whimsical Christmas cloche.  This is my only traditional glass blown cloche.  I just use a dinner plate as a base when I use it like this.

This decorative cloche is from Pottery Barn years ago.  It’s tall and narrow and has a black wood base.  I use it almost every Christmas.  This year I kept it simple and popped a white bottle brush tree inside on a base of moss.  I love the contrast of the green moss with the black base and the white tree!

This is a small domed cheese board I picked up at HomeGoods earlier this year.  The dome is hand blown.  I found these cute paper house ornaments at Kmart of all places and added some Dollar Tree white bottle brush trees, and a tiny deer that I got at 70% off at AC Moore.  Make a base of fluffy faux snow and add any tiny houses,  they are everywhere this year, and some mini trees, etc.   For a small cloche like this, look at ornaments because they are the perfect size.

This one is from last year.  I used these  little woodland animals and a paper Christmas tree under my large domed cloche (the one in the first picture here).  I used the wooden base of my three tiered stand for this one.

This one is from my very first Christmas tour!  It’s the tall Pottery Barn cloche and this time I used a small vintage look santa, sheep and bottle brush tree.

This is one of my all time favorites.  I used my large cloche again for this.  The base is a pewter serving plate and I put a wreath around the base (you can see a bit of it in the back reflection.  Then I popped this tiny footed planter in the middle of the pewter plate.  I filled the planter with some faux grass and then popped the little silver bird into it.  Then I used silver Christmas ornaments in a variety of sizes to fill around the base of the planter.  It makes a statement, but was super easy!

This is another fun thing you can do if your cloche has a knob handle.  Tie something around the handle.  Here I tied  a vintage skeleton key to the handle with some satin ribbon.  You could use any small ornament.  I hope that I’ve inspired you to bring out that domed cheese board, glass domed cake stand etc.  Have fun!