Button crafts with their own hands - interesting ideas, photo examples and tips

Paintings from buttons

The pictures on the Internet present panels of varying complexity - from abstracts to landscapes and portraits. It is recommended to start with basic figures, and as you improve your skills, complement the picture with ribbons, beads, rhinestones, volume appliques, felt. Simple button panel ideas:

• caterpillar:
• flower;
• snowman;
• snail;
• bunch of grapes or a sprig of a tree;
• car

Buttons can be glued or sewn on. If you choose the first method, it is advisable to use a non-toxic, odorless glue to avoid unpleasant consequences. First it is necessary to choose the basis - fabric, canvas, thick paper, and then to outline the contours of the drawing with a pencil or chalk and attach the buttons.

When using a needle, it is important to make sure that the child does not get pricked or hurt, returning the tools to the needlepoint.

Similarly, it is possible to make a massage or tactile mat on which it is recommended to combine materials of different textures and shapes - in addition to buttons, use pieces of dense and thin fabric, ropes, bags of sand, groats, pebbles.

This fascinating and uncomplicated activity is sure to appeal to the child so that he or she will soon be able to conduct his or her own design master classes. Great importance is the support and approval of parents, their sincere admiration for the work.

Interior decorations

Not only author's panels created by the kid himself, but also cushions decorated with motley buttons will look organically in the house. You can create a themed collection, on which it will be easy for a child to remember the seasons, animals, numbers or letters.

Unusual crafts for school and desktop decorations would be a globe. To make it, you will need a foam ball and a cube, toothpicks, glue, buttons of blue, yellow, green and white. If the color scheme is limited, you can always find a substitute, such as acrylic paints. Toothpicks connect the ball to the base (it can be painted brown in watercolor or acrylic), copy the approximate contours of continents and states with a simple pencil from a photo or atlas, then paste the highlighted areas with buttons. Work is quite simple, but requires perseverance, patience and accuracy.

Toys with buttons

Buttons - available material for making educational toys. For example, they can be strung on brightly colored laces, inventing new ways of passing through the holes.

For girls, this is an interesting and easy preparation for sewing.Using buttons of different diameters, designs and colors you can make a special developing board - a bisiboard.

A piece of foam plastic or thick cardboard is covered with fabric, on which buttons, loops of different lengths and widths, zippers, clasps are sewn. A beautifully decorated biboard will occupy a child for a long time and help develop his or her fine motor skills.

For younger children, you can make a cube out of fabric filled with synthetic fiber, foam rubber or even just pure grits or absorbent cotton. For decorating the cubes use buttons, lace, scraps, sequins, beads and other material at hand. The toy is convenient to take on a trip, it will help to spend time usefully in the clinic before an appointment.

Holiday decor

For the New Year holidays, you can make a cute Advent calendar with your own hands:

1. Choose a suitable sheet of plywood, thin plastic, cardboard (counting on 31 pockets).
2. Wrap it in a beautiful cloth, on it trace the pencil outline for the pockets and stitch them, it is desirable to use different colored fabric and apply the traditional Christmas colors - red, white, green, blue, gold.
3. Each pocket marked with a number - embroidered numbers with threads or buttons.
4. In each compartment enclose a little surprise and an interesting fun task = make garland, build a snow fort, decorate a Christmas tree, write a letter to Santa Claus, take a walk in the park or help your mom cook holiday dinner - there are so many options.

Using beautiful ribbons and bright buttons, you can make a stylish designer Christmas wreath.

For any occasion cards decorated with button ornaments will be useful - for grandmother's birthday will suit a flower, for the day of defense of the Fatherland daddy will be pleased with a tank made by a loving child, and a veteran will be pleased to get a touching postcard on Victory Day with a carnation of glued red buttons. For Easter, an interesting craftsman can make wooden blanks, covered with buttons, in the form of an egg.

Other ideas

An original option to make familiar things more colorful is to decorate them with buttons. For example, an old T-shirt can be enlivened with an unusual applique or button pattern, and because of the variety of colors and shapes, this method is useful for masking small stains on clothes that are still wearable. Girls will surely be happy about the possibility of creating a designer hair band, barrette or brooch.

Budget options to add to a large collection of cars and other racing vehicles:

• A car made of 4 buttons that are paired with wire and glued to a clothespin. The finished car can be painted with gouache.
• Motorcycle of a pair of large buttons and bent to the desired shape of a thick wire.
• To the matchboxes glue the button wheels, and if you connect a few pieces to each other - you get a train, for cargo wagons ideal for Kinder-surprise capsules.

Buttons can be used to decorate a plate, mug, jewelry box, pencil holder, or organizer-it all depends on inspiration and imagination! It is important to pay special attention to safety, helping your child and telling him about the proper use of scissors, glue, and safety precautions when working with wire.

Creativity with children is an interesting and fun process that will help to bring new knowledge to your child in a playful way, teach them useful skills, and strengthen the emotional connection. The main thing is to encourage the child's efforts, motivate him, praise and encourage him to feel loved, smart and talented.

Photo ideas of homemade crafts from buttons