Little Houses for You and Me

I've been having too much fun making this colorful little neighborhood the past couple of days.

So much fun in fact, that I put together a little How-To so that we could all play.

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They're really easy. You'll need:

-cardboard

-Tacky glue

-hot glue

-fabric

-Xacto knife

Using this simple template. . .

. . .I cut my house pieces out of a recycled box.

Then, using a thin layer of glue, I stuck the pieces to fabric. I used one color for the front/back/sides, a contrasting color for the roof, and another color for the door.

Then I cut my pieces out like so.

I snipped off any corners, and made little snips all along the top curve of the door.

 

Next, I glued the fabric edges down with Tacky glue

Then I cut little X's in the windows to make foldy-over flaps.

You'll have to snip a bit extra off the flap closest to the edge, like so--

All glued and pretty and ready for the next step--

Then I glued scraps of fabric over the inside of the windows.

Next, I hot glued the sides to the back. . .

. . .and then the front.

Finally, I glued on the roof, the little door, and a button for a doorknob.
Tah-dah!

Little Housey Goodness!

I played with my template, making bigger and smaller houses and other shapes and styles. Here's another template for you too--

So many possibilities!