Dried Pressed Flowers: Button Craft
Are your kids coming home for the holidays? Keep the kids happily busy by giving them a box of buttons and some craft ideas. Join your kids to make fun crafts with flower buttons. Try the interesting tips below
Materials
Lightweight cardboard
Buttons
Safety pin
Felt
Cut small shapes from lightweight cardboard. Glue buttons on the cardboard shapes and let them dry.
Hold a safety pin by the side that opens, and glue the other side to the back of the cardboard. Do this with each button pin.
Cut a small narrow strip of felt for each button pin. Glue the strip to the cardboard and across the back of each safety pin. When dry, wear the pin or give as a gift.
BUTTON ANIMALS
Materials
Buttons
Pipe cleaners
Permanent markers
Craft glue
Googly eyes
Craft beads
Time needed: 30 Minutes or Less
1. Gather buttons, pipe cleaners, permanent markers, craft glue, googly eyes, and craft beads.
2. Then encourage your child to make any creature he can imagine by threading the pipe cleaners through the buttonholes.
3. Get creative by linking multiple buttons and by molding the pipe cleaners into interesting shapes such as tails, antennae, legs, wings, and more. (Remember that you can twist together 2 pipe cleaners for extra length.)
4. Once a body’s done, add a mouth with a marker and glue on 2 (or 3 or 4!) eyes.
You’ll need:
One piece of elastic cord about 10-12 inches long
Several shank buttons
Scissors
String a button onto the cord. Leave it about 3 inches from the end and tie a knot to secure. Continue stringing on more buttons. Tie each one on with a knot. As you approach the end of the cord, test the bracelet size around your wrist. Stop when the bracelet fits loosely around your wrist Knot the two ends together and you have
your bracelet. Trim the ends. Turn this into a key chain by adding a key ring!
Tip:
If the elastic frays while stringing the beads, trim the edges or wrap some tape around the ends.
