Fablossom Flower Maker

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!

After talking about the pirate themed chalk obstacle course the other day, I got to thinking about other easy, low prep games and activities you can do with kids outside. A lot of these are ideas I found on Pinterest that don’t link to blogs anymore if they ever did, but often that’s all the detail you need to figure out what’s going on.

First, a couple from blogs that are still alive. If you have a lot of trees in your yard or in your park, you probably also have a lot of sticks, so you can pretty easily do this stick maze activity from Mother Natured. Build the maze yourself or have one child build if for another. Either way it’s lots of fun and you can keep it built to use as a labyrinth or for pretend play.

If it’s hot where you live you might want outdoor activities that involve water like this fill the bucket relay game. The only thing you might not have at home is giant sponges, but this is still pretty low prep, inexpensive and lots of fun if you have two or more kids to play. Check out how to do it from The Resourceful Mama. And check out my post all about ice and water sensory activities for more ideas to beat the heat.

Make some x’s and o’s or use something you already have to be your game pieces (you can also just draw them on paper plates for a super fast version) and make a large tic tac toe board on the sidewalk. The bonus of reusable game pieces is kids can play with the same grid over and over, which is great if you don’t have a ton of space.

I also love the idea of drawing a big bullseye on the sidewalk or driveway and using beanbags or sponges to try to hit the target. If you have hula hoops you can also set them in a grassy area and have kids try to hit them.

Check out more fun outdoor games for kids from The Printable Princess. These are more for big groups of kids, but if you’ve got a classroom full these are good ones to have on hand for getting some energy out.

Do you have favorite outdoor games for kids to play when it’s hot? I’d love to hear about them!

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