This is how to use buttons for homemade gifts, wall decor, homemade cards, edible buttons, and even button craft activities for kids. These button tutorials include button art, monograms, checkerboard, magnets, jewelry and edible buttons.
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Home Decoration Button Crafts
Everyone has a special place or two in their home. Do you want to decorate it with a button? Take a look at some easy button crafts to get started.
1. Button Art (Unavailable) ~ A fun and easy way to make simple art! You can use up your spare buttons or spray paint them if you are using a certain color palette. Adhere the buttons with double sided tape, hot glue or E-6000 glue.
2. Button Magnets ~ These cute little buttons may just be the easiest craft project ever. They use minimal supplies and only take 5 minutes to make. I must say this is my kind of craft. Packaged nicely I think these button magnets would make an excellent stocking stuffer.
3. Vintage Button Calendar Frame ~ Embellish a plain magnetic calendar board by trimming with vintage buttons to give it a wonderful softness cute as a button!! Pick the button colors to fit the person or the room. A great addition to any craft room or shabby chic decor.
4. Vintage Button Christmas Tree Art ~ Here is one of the great craft ideas using vintage buttons, if you have them, or just regular buttons from your local craft store. Find the complete tutorial and supply list on this great post! This lovely framed art will look great as a part of your holiday decor!
5. DIY Button Monogram ~ Monograms are hot right now! Learn how to make an adorable and affordable piece of monogrammed art for your child’s bedroom or playroom.
Yummy and Edible Button Crafts
These edible button crafts are the perfect way to make something sweet and delicious using everyday items. These candy buttons are so yummy you will have a hard time eating them! Find out how to create these crafts here.
5. How to Make Buttons from Rolled Fondant (Unavailable) ~ Learn how to make edible buttons out of rolled fondant. It’s easy to create realistic looking buttons out of rolled fondant with this step-by-step video tutorial from veteran cake sculptor, Jenn Erickson of Rook No. 17.
6. Edible Button (Unavailable) ~ Learn how to make these adorable edible buttons from gum paste. Piping tips work great for cutting out the buttons.
7. Homemade Candy Buttons ~ If these little buttons are half as fun to make as they are to eat, you and the kiddos are in for a treat. Plus, it’s a great way to use up your extra icing!
8. Button Cookie Bouquet Food Craft ~ These cute pink, white, and red cookie bouquets are a fun treat to make for Valentine’s Day. Your kid can help create bake the cookies and create the arrangement to give to their teachers as a sweet Valentine’s Day treat.
DIY Christmas Button Crafts
Looking for simple crafts to make with the kids? Button crafts are easy to make and they give the house a warm and festive feel. Check out some of the DIY Christmas button crafts here.
9. Button Christmas Tree & Ornament Tutorial ~ Looking for things to do with buttons this Christmas? Try to make some button Christmas tree and ornament for gifts or for decorating your Christmas tree. This button crafts tutorial has pictures and step-by-step instructions. Makes a fun DIY gift or decoration that can be completely customized to your favorite colors or to match your decor!
10. Felt and Button Christmas Tree ~ This felt and button Christmas tree craft project is great because it will not only be fun for your preschooler, but also education! A win win! All you’ll need is felt, buttons and glue!
11. Button Christmas Ornament in 5 Minutes ~ A fast, 5-minute video shows how to make 5 popular ornaments. The ornaments use many materials most crafters already have on hand: paper, ribbon, fabric and buttons. They’re easy & fun, great for yourself or to give as gifts.
Fun Button-Crafted Games for Kids
Mind games, sports games, and quizzes can keep kids occupied for hours on end, and they’re more fun than video games! Insert some buttons, and you’ll have a really good time! Find out more about fun button-crafted games here. Plus other creative things to do with buttons!
12. Cottage Chic Button Checkerboard ~ This checkerboard would be a great birthday gift for an older child, or a fun little something for them to keep at grandma’s house for when they visit. I love the bright, cheery colors.
14. Preschool Learning Activities DIY ~ This post has two great ideas for preschool learning activities you can make with or for your kids. Both are easy to make and with the free jar printable all you’ll have to do is print and glue the buttons on! Your kids will have fun and you’ll feel great because they are learning all at the same time!
15. Teaching Fine Motor Skills with Buttons ~ Using buttons and long spaghetti noodles you’ll create a game and a lesson in fine motor skills thanks to this great post! A great way to make learning skills like gentleness fun. Perfect for toddlers to preschoolers!
16. Clothespin Button Racer ~ Create this cool button projects free as a simple boredom buster on the next rainy day. Perfect for boys and girls alike, little ones will love to participate in making their own cars that they can race.
Lovely Accessories Made from Buttons
All buttons seem to be the same, but they actually come in different styles. Find out more about these tiny accessories [and] how they can be used to make chic accessories. Button bracelets, hair accessories, and more; these accessories are all made from small, round objects. Some level-up things to do with button projects!
17. DIY Stud Earrings ~ Even if you are not a sewer, have you even just walked through the button section at your local craft store? There are a lot of really cute buttons out there! This tutorial walks you through the steps to take those stylish buttons and turning them into earrings! Super simple!
18. Button Necklace Tutorial (Unavailable) ~ If you are looking for a great way to put all those extra buttons to use, you might try these crafts using buttons necklace tutorial using buttons and a bit of crochet!
19. Cute as a Button Hairband ~ Make a “cute as a button” hairband using items you already have! Cute button projects free for kiddos!
20. DIY Statement Rings (Unavailable) ~ These DIY crafts using buttons use some pretty fun supplies to create beautiful statement rings. From ring pops plus a little spray paint to large pretty buttons this DIY project is sure to dress up your fingers!
21. DIY Chunky Vintage Bracelet ~ This is another crafts using buttons to use up any old broken jewelry you’ve got laying around. But if you don’t have any, you can fin lots of fun brooches and buttons from the local craft store. What other fun things to do with buttons? Make those bright colored vintage button bracelets!
More Cool Things to Do with Buttons
If you love buttons, here are some fun projects to make with them. More cool things to do with buttons. You don’t have to just sew them on. Check out this guide to learn more fabulous things that you can do with your buttons.
22. Apple Journals ~ If you’re looking for a last minute teacher’s gift this simple craft with paper is perfect and easy to make. You can easily change the buttons to vary the theme to fit a variety of occasions. What an adorable button projects free to make for all ages!
23. Buttons from Shrink Plastic ~ This tutorial is for crafts using buttons for clothing but can you imagine the possibilities on a scrapbook page? Turning these one of the cool clothing ideas into one of the cute scrapbooking ideas is sure to make any layout pop!
24. Clay Flower Buttons (Unavailable) ~ Look at these lovely dainty flower button projects. The tutorial shows you how you can turn a ball of oven hardening clay into flower petals. You can add holes to the flowers to turn them into buttons and attach them to the free button holder printables. I think they would also be perfect as earrings or attached to bobby pins.
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 | Which fun button project is your favorite? Share it in the comments below! ~ Laurie {a.k.a. the Tip Junkie} |
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