Do-it-yourself button crafts are a great opportunity for children to train their fingers and hands, learn how to handle small objects carefully and create new images from familiar things. For example, you can invite the children to create an original button tree and offer different ways its manufacture:

String green buttons and Brown on a strong fishing line or wire. If you fix a button in the form of a star on top, you get an interesting Christmas tree that can be used as new year gift or design element.

Craft from buttons on a wire

You can make a tree body out of wire, and string buttons on its branches - like leaves. The basis for a small tree can be a spool of thread, and for a large one - a flower pot or a glass.

Button tree on wire

A very beautiful and tender heart can be made using wire as a basis.

Volumetric crafts from buttons

From the buttons you can make various funny figures. So, for example, from buttons and glue, you can add a “caterpillar” figure.

Button figurine "caterpillar"

From wire, buttons and beads, you can assemble an original bird pendant.

By the New Year, you can also make pendants - by connecting two buttons of different sizes, we will get the body and head of a snowman. We decorate it with a felt or cardboard hat, a scarf, glue a loop - you're done!

Button snowman

By stringing buttons on a thread, you can make a wonderful Christmas decoration - a Christmas tree.

Herringbone of buttons

A thread with strung beads can be tied together and decorated with a ribbon. We get a lovely decoration for the Christmas tree.

A very bright and unusual keychain can be made from multi-colored buttons.

Buttons can be used to decorate a bookmark.

An ordinary frame becomes a real work of art with the help of buttons and beads.

Watch the video on how to make a very bright children's pencil holder:

Applications for children from buttons

Buttons make bright, cheerful fish on the seabed.

Application from buttons and paper "seabed"

And if you stick a piece to the main background corrugated paper and put a pile of bright buttons in it, you get a delicious cake. This craft can be used to decorate the dining area.

Cardboard looks interesting, instead of dots on the wings, which has black buttons glued on.

ladybug- button appliqué

From green buttons different shades you can lay out a beautiful Christmas tree.

Herringbone button appliqué

A very beautiful and delicate applique "spring meadow" will be obtained from buttons different colors and forms.

Application from buttons "Spring Meadow"

Look at the video - how to make a tree button applique:

An interesting technique is a combination of drawing and application. You can draw a stem and leaves on thick cardboard or a piece of plastic, and use the buttons as a head for each flower.

Drawing and application "flowers"

Christmas balls made of buttons look beautiful. We just draw threads for these balls on the landscape sheet, and glue one bright round button as each of them. This craft is especially relevant before the New Year.

Drawing and application "balls"

From the buttons you can make a beautiful summer application "butterfly".

Butterfly button appliqué

From buttons you can make a very interesting and bright application"watermelon".

Application "watermelon"

DIY button trees

Using the technique of combining pattern and appliqué, you can make a very cute spring craft.

Drawing and application "spring"

In the same technique, you can make a chic colored tree.

Button tree appliqué

See what a beautiful mosaic picture "Tree in a Clearing" can be created using paints and buttons. Such a masterpiece will decorate the house and will be a wonderful handmade gift.

Pictures from buttons

From the buttons you can lay out a real picture. As a basis, you can use thick cardboard or canvas. From the buttons you can lay out gorgeous bouquet flowers in a vase.

From buttons, beads and beads, you can lay out a chic rose.

Rosette of buttons, beads and beads

From red and black buttons you can lay out a perky bullfinch. In a black frame, such a bullfinch will become a very expressive interior decoration.

Picture from buttons "Bullfinch"

Colored buttons make a charming owl.

Pictures from buttons placed in a frame look very impressive. Button Elephant Button Giraffe Starfish from buttons

You can take the idea for any crafts from buttons in Kindergarten, where during creative pursuits The kids will be able to make it a reality.

Button decorations

Using buttons and wire, you can create an amazingly beautiful necklace. The basis of the jewelry will be a colored chain with wide links.

From bright colored buttons you can make a children's necklace.

See a few more interesting ideas for crafts.

Hello dear readers!

Have you ever made button crafts? Turns out it's interesting and an exciting activity, real hand made for home!

We have been discussing this topic on the blog for a long time, but now I decided to remind you and myself what crafts can be made from buttons for the new year, this is just what is relevant now. Yes, and I have accumulated new photos of original crafts from buttons with my own hands.

DIY New Year's crafts from buttons

Let's start with Christmas crafts.

From buttons for the New Year you can make a Christmas wreath, voluminous Christmas decorations, a napkin ring, a candlestick from a children's shoe, funny snowmen. You can make a Christmas tree by gluing buttons onto a cardboard cone.

Making a Christmas wreath is easy, for this you need to glue buttons on a circle of cardboard on both sides. And you can glue the same buttons in pairs, and then glue them to each other, placing them in the form of a ring.

For a New Year's ball, buttons are glued to a foam ball or paper ball. Gaps can be filled with beads and rhinestones.

By the new year 2018, I propose to make a dog craft from buttons in the form of an applique or a panel: pick up an interesting drawing of a dog, draw or print it on paper and lay it out by gluing the buttons.

Button decorations

Somehow I was cleaning my closet and found a box with a variety of old buttons. Usually, if I throw away some old thing, I unfasten and fold the buttons, they will suddenly come in handy.

Even the buttons from Soviet times have been preserved, when I sewed a little and bought beautiful buttons for future things.

The accumulated buttons can be given new life and decorate them with different gizmos.

The first thing I did was decorate the flower pot with buttons. My large tall cyperus was planted in a regular bucket. I decided to decorate it a little with knitting threads. I smeared the upper part around the pot (bucket) with PVA glue. I glued the end of the thread and wrapped it around the pot, gradually going down.

I have already decorated other flower pots in this way and. The threads were not wound tightly to each other, so that the surface of the pot could be seen between them and it turned out to be striped. Glue the end of the thread.

And in the upper part of the pot I glued buttons, picking them up by color. It turned out just the way I like it - simple and creative! It seems that my cyperus liked this new thing.

What other decorations can be made, look at the photo.

You can decorate a mirror, frames, watches with buttons, sticking them along the contour, decorating a lampshade in the same way.

Original and simple necklaces and beads can be made.

A very beautiful decor from buttons can be made on clothes, belts, bags, decorative pillows. Especially the idea of ​​decorating pillows warms me, because I like to make different pillows. In these cases, the buttons must be sewn onto the fabric in a certain sequence.

Do you like curtains made of beads? The same can be made from buttons by stringing them on threads. You can also decorate a fabric curtain by sewing buttons on it.

Pictures and panels from buttons

You can make beautiful pictures and panels from buttons. You just need to lay out a drawing on cardboard, burlap or felt with buttons either multi-colored, or matched in color, or painted with paint of the desired color. Glue with PVA glue and enclose this work in a frame.

And the hoop as a frame is both original, stylish and modern.

And now I just really wanted to make a panel with the image of a butterfly, I put it in my plans, especially since I still have a lot of buttons, but I really like them.

Crafts from buttons with children

It will be very interesting to make crafts from buttons with your own hands for children and with them: various funny animals, clowns, applications in the form of trees on the theme of autumn, flowers, butterflies.

By the way, such a picture with a Christmas tree for the new year, made by the hands of a child, will be just relevant.

Original crafts from buttons

A simple bookmark for a book or a keychain: tie a large beautiful button to a chain or cord, it will turn out quite original.

But do you like such a small craft tree made of buttons?

I recently came across this photo of an unusual vase.

Thinking how to make it? With a balloon! This method is already well known to us, so we make various beautiful balls of thread, New Year's toys from knitted motifs and much more.

So for a vase of buttons, we inflate the ball, spread half of it with PVA glue, we also coat the buttons with glue from the bottom and from the edges and place them tightly against each other on hot-air balloon. After drying, the ball is removed, the vase will remain in the hands.

How to make beautiful crafts from old buttons

Most likely, it is unlikely to be able to collect large collection buttons that match in color, and even more so in one color. But there is a way out - to paint them from a can of paint.

Ordinary buttons can also be given an antique look. For this:

1. Large buttons are coated with copper acrylic paint.
2. After drying with a brush with stiff bristles, green iridescent paint is unevenly applied so that gaps in the copper layer remain.
3. We dry.
4. We mix grey-green, mother-of-pearl paints and water and cover the buttons.
5. The last layer is varnish.

Button crafts video

I also prepared a video for you, which included the ideas presented in the photo and other button craft ideas.

Any hostess accumulates a large number of tailor's buttons over the years. All this multi-colored and diverse wealth can be put into action right now, in preparation for the New Year. Maternity.ru shares ideas for making Christmas decorations and New Year's cards from ordinary buttons!

Button snowflakes

Bright multi-colored snowflakes from pieces of felt or other thick fabric with button decoration is original decoration for the Christmas tree, an element for composing a garland or design gift wrapping, letters to Santa Claus or New Year's card for loved ones and relatives. Such snowflakes can be made at home with mom or at school in a labor lesson.

A button snowflake can be made "really" snow white and constructed with a few popsicle sticks. Glue them together and decorate with buttons. In the middle we attach a cute funny pompom.

A snowflake can be made from sticks and spruce branches. At the same time, a spruce branch can be “snowed”. For example, with the help of a correction fluid. In the center we attach bright red buttons. We make a rope mount. It turned out an unusual decoration in ethnic style.

You can cut out a patterned snowflake from white felt, decorate it with a pale blue button and light embroidery.

With the help of silver wire and colored buttons, we collect a frame snowflake.

Christmas balls and other toys for the Christmas tree from buttons

Try to make exclusive balls for the Christmas tree. To do this, we select the necessary buttons and glue them to ordinary Christmas balls. We decorate with ribbons and rhinestones, beads. These balloons are great gifts!

Large bright balls with button decor can be additionally decorated with small "snow" crumbs - from beads, polystyrene foam or beads. This looks very wintery and will help cover up the buttonholes.

Exclusive design balloons can be created using original buttons and a base made of soft tissue, wire or Christmas tree plastic ball. We decorate with satin fabric, ribbons, feathers. Agree, these are real works of art!

But you can decorate the New Year's beauty not only with Christmas balls. There are others interesting toys. For example, flat wireframe images of balls, hearts and stars.

Felt toys with button decorations are easy to make and look stylish!

From buttons, you can make special small Christmas tree decorations with your child. For example, pick up green buttons of different diameters in the shape of a pyramid - a Christmas tree.

Cute funny snowmen made of buttons may appear on the Christmas tree. They can also be attached to gift wrapping or postcards.

And you can collect a whole bunch of buttons, and make a decoration for the Christmas tree - easy and simple!

Souvenir Christmas trees from buttons

Button decor can decorate voluminous christmas trees. They can be green, with bright decorations, or "in the snow." Such a Christmas tree may well be a gift from your children to your beloved grandmother.

New Year cards and gift wrapping with buttons

If you are going to write a letter to Santa Claus, do Greeting Cards self made or decorate gift boxes yourself, the idea of ​​decorating with buttons is for you.

Draw a Christmas tree on a gift box or card and glue colored balls-buttons to it. It turns out fresh and unusual! Even a child can do this.

With the help of bright buttons, it is easy to create an image of Christmas balls or glowing lights of a garland.

If such a work is placed in a beautiful frame, you will get a great gift, made by yourself. Show this idea to the kids, they may want to give such a picture to their grandparents. Such New Year's crafts can be "adopted" by kindergarten teachers so that preschoolers in pre-holiday days prepared beautiful gift relatives.

You can decorate packaging and postcards with colored paper tubes and large bright buttons. It is also convenient to make such an application in class in kindergarten or at school.

More experienced craftsmen can go further and create a whole New Year's composition. This winter appliqué would make a great gift, a school art exhibit, or even be sold at a Christmas charity fair!

With the help of colored paper, colorful lace and a large number buttons, you can depict a fluffy Christmas tree with a pile of gifts under it!

You can decorate gift tags or small cards with wishes with buttons.

Garlands with buttons

From large buttons you can make garlands for decorating spruce, interior items and New Year's costumes. You can use a chain, as in the photo, or you can knit or put large buttons on the threads.

Garlands with toys and Christmas decorations can be hung in the gift area, on the Christmas tree or on the wall. We cut out the figure from the fabric, sew along the edge, stuff it with cotton wool or cloth. Decorate with buttons. Garland toys are ready!

New Year's interior design from buttons

According to the previous scenario, you can create Christmas trees on a stick. They can be placed in the interior or on the festive table.

The Motherhood.ru portal has already talked about how to make

If you have accumulated buttons, make pictures, panels, decorations for clothes out of them with your own hands.

Making pictures from buttons with your own hands

Lots of ideas. They will help create artistic masterpieces for children and adults. For it use:

• buttons of different colors;
• glue;
• thick cardboard or thin plywood;
• simple pencil.

Paint the plywood or cardboard in the desired color, let the canvas dry. Redraw the outlines of the future masterpiece on it. As you can see, the vase is lined with bronze-colored buttons. For its edging, small pieces of fittings are used, inside there are larger ones.

Lay cheerfully colored buttons on the canvas to form flowers. Lay out the stems and leaves in green. If you have a lot of white buttons, decorate the background with them. This will help the picture become more voluminous and original.

Even if you have a few buttons, it will not hurt to make a panel.

Kids will love this idea for sure. But first, cook with them:

• white cardboard;
• paints;
• buttons;
• glue;
• brush;
• bath with water;
• white paper.

Draw a tree trunk on cardboard. Glue the buttons to the location of the crown. Now you need to outline each with green paint. To make the tree even more cheerful, draw petals around the buttons.

Let the child fold a strip of white paper in half, draw the right side of the butterfly on it. When he unfolds the leaf, he will get a white-winged insect. It remains to paint the body of the insect with black paint with a thin brush, apply a pattern to the wings and, after the paint dries, glue the butterfly to a flowering tree.

Using buttons, you can create another tree with your own hands.

To reproduce this idea, take:

• brown, red and yellow buttons;
• blue, white and yellow watercolors;
• glue;
• a sheet of cardboard;
• photo frame;
• pencil.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. First, the cardboard is covered with watercolors. Draw the sky blue, for this add a little blue to white, mix with a brush. The location of the ground can be green if there is grass growing there, and if it is sand, then make this part of the background yellow.
2. After the paint has completely dried, draw the contours of the tree on the canvas with a pencil.
3. Barrel fill with buttons brown shade, black. Attach red and yellow to the crown. You can use other tones.
4. Put the picture in a frame and you can hang the masterpiece on the wall.

If you use buttons to decorate a tree, children's paintings can be like that.

After drawing the background with paints, you need to give them time to dry. On blue or green colored paper, draw a tree crown, glue it to the canvas. On the back of black or brown paper, draw its trunk, which also needs to be glued in place.

Now let the children give free rein to their imagination by gluing buttons of various colors to the crown.

Hang this picture in your living room, which will have large buttons, medium and small.

First draw the sea, it is bordered by a coastline consisting of sand. So make it yellow. Next comes a darker coastal spit, in the background it is green.

Now you need to stick buttons on the sea white color to give the water extra shine. Shells on the sand can be both light and darker tones.

The following button picture will also help you relax after a hard day.

First, a blue background of the sky and green, which will become the stems of flowers, are drawn in gouache. Buttons are glued above them. If they are on legs, then you need to sew them to the cardboard with a thread and a needle.

It will be easy for children under the guidance of adults to make just such a basket of flowers.

To make a panel in the form of an owl, take:

• wooden board;
• two metal loops;
• rope;
• buttons;
• twig.

Draw the outline of a bird on the board. Around the eyes, body and wings, lay out the brown buttons, and make the tummy, the outline around the pupils from white buttons, the pupils from black. Instead of a beak, attach a red one.

Glue panel down wooden stick. Attach the paws of an owl to it and around it.

This accessory will help to embody the most daring ideas. To make a Christmas tree New Year, take:

• buttons of a green, light green shade of different sizes, brown;
• green thread;
• a needle with a large eye;
• scissors.

Thread the needle, tie a knot. We will sew in two threads. Put on them first 4 brown buttons, then the largest green one. Decorate the Christmas tree so that the buttons are evenly distributed, the smallest is on top.

A star can be made from accessories of this shape or cut out of cardboard, also stitched with a needle and thread. We hang our Christmas tree and admire the beautiful creation.

If you want to make flowers from buttons, take:

• buttons;
• thin wire;
• scissors;
• vase.

Put the buttons on the wire so that the smallest one is in the center. First, thread the wire through the first hole, then into the second. Twist this little tip with the main wire with reverse side. When you make flowers, weave their bending stems, put in a vase.

Interesting crafts from buttons are both a clock and a wall calendar. For him, you need to cut out circles from cardboard, draw a number on them and stick them in the center of the buttons.

These blanks are sewn or glued to the base and the original calendar is hung on the wall or placed on the table next to it.

If you have a lot of such accessories, you can decorate a mirror, a bathroom wall and even a toilet bowl with it.

But first, the surface must be washed and wiped dry. After that, it is degreased and the accessories are glued in two rows, closing the gaps between the buttons so that the decorated surface does not show through.

If you liked making a Christmas tree, see what other crafts for the New Year you can make from buttons.

Degrease the surface of the ball, pour buttons to match it. If you are celebrating the New Year in nature in the country, there are no toys, then make them from the same sewing accessories.

Do not hold back your imagination, if you wish, arrange buttons according to height or large ones in the middle, small ones at the edges. The color scheme can also be varied.

What they don't make christmas snowflakes, from: napkins; yarn; paper. And the fact that they can be created even from buttons is known to few.

To do this, take:

• white buttons;
• Super glue;
• rope;
• metal hangers;
• pliers.

Using pliers, separate 6 pieces of 10 cm and four of 7 cm from the hangers. Glue them in the form of a star on one large button.

On the face, this blank will look like this.

Glue the remaining buttons to the metal wire.

Such New Year's snowflakes can be hung on a Christmas tree, on a wall. To do this, glue a rope to the end of the snowflake, tie a loop.
Here is another idea that will show you how to make a Christmas tree out of buttons.

String green on the wire, thread both ends through two large buttons, which will become the leg of the product and give it strength. For the second Christmas tree, you need to make a cone out of cardboard, glue it with buttons. Such accessories will help you make Christmas wreaths.

If you want to make a napkin ring to serve this way festive table, take:

• flexible transparent plastic kitchen board;
• buttons;
• glue;
• scissors.

Determine the size of the future ring, cut. Connect the edges of the board by gluing them. Glue and buttons, placing them in rows.

A flower from sewing accessories also looks great. A original candles you will make from old shoes or those that are small for a child. Glue the buttons on the shoes, tie new laces, put fireproof glass jars inside the shoes, in which you place candles.

See what buttons are wonderful helpers in terms of room decor. Sew them on the pillow by making a pattern or creating the first letter of the name of the person you want to give it to.

Embroider with buttons on a dark bag, and it will become unique.

Decorate curtains with these accessories by sewing them here. Remember how fashionable bamboo curtains used to be? Someone made similar ones from paper clips and beads wrapped in pieces of postcards. You will make these from accessories.

For this you will need:

• buttons;
• fishing line;
• needle;
• rail;
• scissors.

Everything is quite simple, string the buttons on the fishing line. Attach the resulting blanks to a wooden rail, placing them parallel and at the same distance.

Using this technique, you can make not only curtains for a doorway, but also an analogue of blinds for windows.

DIY button jewelry: photo and description

You will make them from the same material. See what an unusual button belt turns out. It goes great with jeans. It will need a strong thread so that it does not break during wear. You can replace it with a thin white rubber band.

Thread the needle, tie both ends with a knot. Move it a little to the side, twist the thread in this place, making a loop. String on the first button, then the second and all the rest.

They fasten such a belt with a button, throwing it over the loop that you made at the beginning.

If you have a men's shirt, add femininity to it by sewing beautiful buttons on the collar.

They will help create your unique image. Make a rainbow bracelet by looking at step by step photos. This is how wonderful it will turn out.

To make a decoration on your hand, take:

• buttons;
• threads;
• a needle;
• scissors.

Sort the buttons by color, see how the gamma of the future product will look like.

To work, you need flat buttons with four holes. Take a needle with an eye so that it fits well into them.

Pass the needle and thread through two opposite holes of one button on the wrong side. On the face, taking the needle out of the second hole, thread it into the first recess of the second button. Bring the needle back into the second hole of the first button on the wrong side. On the face, thread the needle again into the second hole.

Having created the first row, work the second, connecting these rows at the same time. Do the same for the third one.

Weave the free ends of the threads with a pigtail. Trim off the excess.

Tie a loop from the pigtail, which you will put on a button and fasten the bracelet in this way.

If you have metal buttons on the leg, make this bracelet. You can attach them to the chain using wire or metal rings.

For lovers volumetric jewelry You can also recommend another necklace around the neck. The fittings are fastened with metal rings or ordinary paper clips.

If you want to make tiered button beads, then check out the following idea. The main thing is to take a very strong thread or fishing line so that at the most inopportune moment they do not break and the beads do not crumble.

If you have a broken automatic hairpin, and its mechanism is still good, upgrade the thing. To do this, take:

• three flat buttons;
• Super glue;
• two beads;
• cord;
• scissors.

Pass the cord through the hole of one button, put beads on its ends, tie knots here to fix the structure.

Attach the buttons using super glue.

Lubricate the surface of the metal hairpin well with glue, attach a design of buttons and beads here. After that, you need to let the accessory dry and you can try on a new accessory.

Attach a blank with lace to it, after which you will get an amazing do-it-yourself hairpin.

If you stick three buttons on ordinary black invisible ones, see how the hairpins immediately change.

If you have an elastic band and a matching button, in 2 minutes you will turn them into a new hair accessory. To do this, slip the edge of the elastic band under the leg of the button, thread the free end under it, tie it in a knot.

Crafts from buttons for yourself are not only jewelry, hairpins, but also decorating shoes in an unusual way. Beach flip-flops will be transformed in half an hour if you sew bright buttons to them.

If you want the decorated surface to increase, then first sew the buttons to two triangles of fabric, and then attach them to the slippers.

Buttons will transform other shoes as well. If your favorite shoes are worn, hide them behind these accessories and everyone will think you should buy another pair of shoes.

The same applies to sports shoes - slippers, sneakers, sneakers. Why buy new ones if you can transform the old ones in an hour?

Even if there are only 6 buttons, they will allow you to decorate shoes. Sew them on ballet shoes, thereby adding a twist.

Attach buttons to leggings, hats to create your original and naughty look.

As you can see, button crafts can be very diverse and unexpected. With the help of them you will add new interesting shades to your home, create accessories, update shoes and be fashionable, confident.

And in order to better remember what can be made from buttons and recharge with new ideas, watch 2 informative videos.

Buttons, so different, colorful and funny, they just ask to be turned into

on New Year's Christmas decorations.

You can make Christmas decorations for your home with your own hands from the most ordinary household items, the main thing is to show your imagination! Today atwe will take out our collections of multi-coloredand see how you can use these little beauties while preparing for the holidays.

Creating compositions from buttons, like putting together a puzzle, is not a quick, but very exciting activity. Involve children in the process - button crafts develop Creative skills, sometimes it is enough to make quite a bit of effort to get a good result, there would be suitable ideas. Well, for inspiration, I propose to use my today's examples of creating New Year's decorations, gifts and Christmas decorations from buttons.

Christmas gifts and button decorations.

New Year's wreaths from buttons. There are several options for creating such wreaths. It is possible, as in the first example, to make a cover from fabric for covering finished form and embroider it with bright buttons. If you make a wreath of green woolen threads, then you get something like a pine branch, and the buttons attached on top will become a replacement for Christmas balls. A small wreath on a wire frame is suitable for decorating a Christmas tree.

Christmas trees from buttons. To create a New Year's beauty, we need a ready-made foam base or a thick paper cone. There are a lot of examples on the Internet how to make it, so let's go straight to the buttons. We glue them and prick them with pins for strength, and if the workpiece is hollow, then we fix it from the inside with wire. It turns out very beautiful and easy Christmas decoration for the home, which can be done with the children.

Christmas balls from buttons. A ball of buttons can become both a Christmas tree toy and an element of the New Year's decoration of an apartment; it is not difficult to make it, especially if there is a special foam blank in stock. We glue the buttons to the ball, fixing them with pins with multi-colored heads. If the ball is multi-colored, it is better to slightly tint the base.

Buttons make very cute New Year's compositions, the plots themselves are simple: a smart Christmas tree, a snowflake, a Christmas wreath. Pay attention to how good this picture looks if you make it a good frame.

It is a pleasure to create Christmas decorations from buttons with children, and the scope for imagination is very wide. Even one single large red button can become a separate decoration. Probably the most popular craft in this area is a Christmas tree made of buttons, assembled with a pyramid, but there are other equally worthy options.

Button gifts. Ideas from previous section suitable not only for decorating the Christmas tree, but also as an additional handmade souvenir and pinned to the festive packaging of the New Year's gift. Here are a couple more similar ideas.