If it is good to delve into cabinets and drawers, in almost any home you can find a casket or a bag with buttons. Our mothers and grandmothers had plenty of these attributes, and we can create from this wealth numerous accessories: beads, bracelets, hairpins, earrings. Possible crafts from buttons amaze the imagination with their originality and variety. At the same time, absolutely any types of buttons can be used: plastic, metal, wooden, transparent and colored, large and small. Button products can be created using conventional plastics, or you can use vintage elements to make vintage jewelry. In addition to buttons, you can use beads, bugles, rhinestones, even torn doll eyes.
Crafts from buttons is a wonderful joint activity with children. This contributes to the development of their imagination, creative thinking, fine motor skills. But only from very young children should hide away very small buttons that you really want to try on the tooth.
The working techniques are also quite a lot: gluing, embroidery, weaving, fastening with wire. Ready-made crafts from buttons can be painted with acrylics or varnish. As a rule, there are no difficulties during the creative process. The final look of the desired little thing depends only on the imagination of its creator. Here are some examples of interesting work.
Probably the easiest way to deal with buttons is to string them on a wire, thread or fishing line. In such a simple way, any girl can build a necklace or bracelet for herself. To do this, you need to take a thin, flexible wire with a length equal to the circumference of the wrist or the desired length of the beads plus a few centimeters for the ties. On this wire we string the selected buttons. When done, you need to tie a wire on both sides so that the buttons do not fall apart.
If you take large bright buttons, you get an interesting decoration for the New Year tree.
Another variant of the bracelet is based on the use of a ready-made chain with large links and wire rings. Such blanks can be purchased at any needlework store. The essence of the method is to fasten the buttons to the links of the chain with the help of rings. Earrings can be made in the same way.
If you decorate annoying flip flops with bright buttons, then such shoes will add a summer mood. We take the tape a little longer than the slap strap, process its edges so that they do not crumble. Bend in the middle like the letter V and flash the bend. Sew buttons on the ribbon. When this part of the work is ready, glue the tape on the strap slap. If the clogs are made of fabric, you can sew buttons directly to it.
Together with the children, you can also make an interesting potholder or panel on the wall. To do this, draw the desired image on the fabric (butterfly, bunny, flower) and cut it out. We make several such layers. We cover the top layer with buttons. After that, we sew all the layers together and process the edge with a decorative seam.
It is very simple to make a Christmas tree of buttons and paper. Even the crumb, to whom the mother still does not give a needle, will cope with this task. To do this, we turn a cone out of thick paper or thin cardboard and glue the edges so that the base does not fall apart. It remains only to glue green buttons on it - larger ones below, smaller ones above. In some places, you can stick on buttons of a different color, imitating Christmas toys.
Crafts from buttons is a fascinating and uncomplicated activity that can bring a lot of pleasure to both adults and children. Therefore, if during the spring cleaning you found deposits of old buttons, do not throw them away, but let them go.