5 DIY Cupcake Stands – Craft Gossip

A beautiful dessert table makes a lovely focal point for a bridal shower or wedding. Display your wedding treats in style with these 5 easy ideas for custom cupcake stands!

The House of Smiths shares a tutorial for stenciled stands with graphic designs that are perfect for a modern wedding!

This gorgeous idea from Whipperberry doesn’t even require any DIY skills! Yummy cupcakes are proudly perched on tall candlesticks. Genius! And as a an added bonus, this post includes a recipe for the cupcakes – Black Cherry White Chocolate Cupcakes in a Jar. Sounds delicious to me!

These pretty stands require a bit of painting, sanding, and assembling, but they are worth the effort! Get the tutorial at Bee in our Bonnet.

Love the idea of cupcake stands with interchangeable tiers! What a fun way to mix and match using a variety of pretty plates and patterns. Learn how to make this versatile stand at Giver’s Log.

Dollar store trays make these colorful stands festive and budget-friendly! Get the fun tutorial at Joy’s Hope.

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My daughter’s school has project-based finals instead of tests in the spring, and in her geometry class last year the students constructed a scale model of a town complete with three-dimensional buildings.

Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town.

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why.

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble.

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings.

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school.

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!).

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town.

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again.

[Photo: Brother]

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