Drawing is not only a hands-on activity — it’s also a personal moment, a break in the rush of daily life.
Formettes are simple, intuitive creative tools that let you trace both basic and complex geometric figures, with no drawing skills required.
Joining a creative workshop with Formettes becomes a game — one that reveals your creative spark and hidden talents.
With Formettes as your creative activity, you can unleash your imagination to enhance your home décor or transform everyday objects.
The Concept
Imagine, draw, and bring handmade creations to life with ease.
Formettes are “normaforms” — drawing templates designed for DIY use. Each one contains multiple cut-out shapes that allow you to easily trace geometric patterns, leading to endless personalized combinations, from the simplest to the most intricate.
Made from transparent, recyclable plastic, Formettes adapt to all kinds of surfaces for original creative projects. Built-in markers make it easy to position the tool precisely, ensuring clean, consistent lines and an accessible, enjoyable creative activity.
Unlike traditional stencils, Formettes need to be combined to create a full composition — turning creative leisure into a playful, educational experience.
Discover the Formettes Concept in Video
Tracing geometric patterns for endless creative ideas
Adding color to your artistic creations
The Benefits of Creative Activities with Formettes
The Formettes experience, as a creative game, goes far beyond geometric construction. They are playful tools and a source of countless creative activities that help you refocus, sharpen concentration, and develop precision and dexterity.
The pleasure of making with your hands, freely and at your own pace, to bring creative ideas to life
The power of personalizing a meaningful decorative object
The simple joy of a meditative leisure activity
A boost of confidence when the pattern finally appears
Have Questions?
Formettes has the Answers!
What exactly is a Formette?
A Formette is a “normaform” — a drawing stencil made from recycled plastic — designed to guide your creative spark in making simple, original geometric figures or more elaborate patterns, easily and precisely.
Unlike traditional tools such as rulers or compasses, Formettes allow you to draw decorative geometric motifs in an intuitive, playful way — accessible to everyone, from complete beginners to children’s little hands.
Slide, rotate, trace, and combine! Each Formette is a creative tool offering a set of shapes you can freely mix and match to design geometric patterns on the surface of your choice: paper, fabric, cardboard, wood, even walls…
It’s a moment for yourself — or to share — perfect for keeping children as well as adults engaged. Formettes are creative tools that soothe, stimulate, and help you refocus.
With a Formettes creative kit, you play with lines, curves, and proportions — with no pressure, simply for the joy of drawing.
What Can You Create?
Formettes let you draw a wide variety of geometric designs, from simple to more complex. Rosettes, borders, mandalas, tessellations, star patterns, floral or abstract motifs…
The possibilities are endless! You can use your patterns to:
- Create colorful textile designs (printed on cotton fabric, tote bags, t-shirts, etc.)
- Imagine a decorative border on wallpaper rolls or a mural to color in
- Personalize a piece of furniture or customize an object
- Decorate notebooks, boxes, jars, frames, ceramics, stationery, table décor, and more
How Are Formettes Made?
Our Formettes are designed and manufactured in Portugal, in small batches, from recycled plastic — following an artisanal and responsible approach.
Everything is carefully thought out to minimize environmental impact, highlight local craftsmanship, and offer you an object that is useful, beautiful, and meaningful — for creative activities that truly make sense.
Formettes are remarkable hands-on tools, serving free, joyful, and mindful creativity.