Review – Epson Labelworks Printable Ribbon Kit

I was so excited to get this little gem to review. Seriously who doesn’t have a use for a Epson Printable Ribbon Machine? I can think of 100’s of uses including :

Gift wrapping – Kind of obvious but still worthy of a mention especially with Valentine’s Day coming up. We (my 7 year old and I) created some ribbons that say “From the Goyal Family” which I think are perfect for wrapping gifts and I can’t wait to use them at Christmas time and Easter. If I was the romantic type I would create little ribbons of love and place them all over the house for Valentine’s Day for my husband to discover. I plan to make little love notes for my kids (my true loves) and tie them around the wrists for Valentine’s day also.

Hair Ribbons – Perfect for back to school creations and of course no other snotty nose child can steal the ones we made with her name printed ALL over them. (see picture above)

Bookmarks – Nothing says HOLD MY PAGE like a printed ribbon that says HOLD MY PAGE!

Party Decorations – Celebrate in style with handmade thank you ribbons and written messages.

The machine is easy to setup: you literally pop the batteries and cartridge in and you are ready to print. The manual is so easy to follow that my 7 year old created her own designs (including the bookmark above) You can add borders, symbols and so much more. Check out the website for more of the technical details.

RRP $69.95 and comes with two ribbon cartridges. Replacement Ribbon cartridges are $19.99 that come with 16 feet or 5 metres of Ribbon.

Here are some examples of them being used for parties , weddings and baby showers. Love this product!

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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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