Fablossom Flower Maker – Craft Gossip

The Fablossom kit comes with ready to use fabric pieces, clips and gemstones. You do not need glue, scissors or patience. We really loved making the flowers! It really is fabulous! The flowers are actually really pretty and the gemstones add a lovely touch. I would highly recommend this for a stocking stuffer – for anyone!

I could literally sit there for hours and just keep making the blossoms. They were just so easy! The Fablossom device holds the fabric in place whilst you arrange and fold the petals. It’s like having extra hands.

We got extra DIY creative with ours and made some school hair bows. We used the DIY refill pack and our own fabrics (old damaged uniforms). I decided for extra durability and to allow me to add the school buttons (from the old uniforms) I would hot glue the pieces into position. I went ahead an hot glued them whilst still in the Fablossom tool. I was able to make 10 of these in an hour. I then added a little hot glue to the back and attached the pins or clips. I even layered several of them together for extra big rosettes.

Fablossom isn’t just for fabric, they now have a paper version too. I love the elegant styles – they’re just captivating and the paper flowers would be PERFECT for a wedding gift or something like that.

What are you waiting for? Buy YOUR kit right now!

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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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