Why not use your paints and decorate the wooden trees — they would make great mantle piece decorations for the home when decorated — with a pack of 2 you could decorate one and your child the other one. (rainydaymum.co.uk)
Many an early Victorian mantle piece boasted an earthenware figurine of King John, pen in hand, signing Magna Carta. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Hill calls the three mantle pieces landscape paintings, and certainly they have the contouring and inevitable horizontal line that have always characterised landscape painting. (mercerunion.org)