This post originally appeared on an old blog called The Brother's Trimm - I just wanted to add it to my personal blog in order to preserve the memory!
Christmas Button Ornaments
Button Christmas ornaments are a fabulous Make and Do Project as almost all the necessary supplies are readily available and very cheap. I had a big jar of buttons that didn't seem to belong to anything and combined with a pack of pipe cleaners we were all ready to go with a great Christmas craft activity. This is an activity that can be done by children as young as two, Baby Pirate is two and a half and with a little help every now and again he loved it. Threading the pipe cleaners through the button holes was great for improving his eye hand coordination and the organising of the buttons was great for sorting skill development. All in all, a great Make and Do project!
Materials:
Buttons
Pipe Cleaners
Scissors
Ribbon
Making "wreath" button ornaments:
Select a pipe cleaner and start threading!
When they have decided that there are enough buttons on their wreath, loop the pipe cleaner ends together and wind closed. Trim off any excess and then tie a ribbon on to the bare spot of the wreath making a loop. The loop can now be used to hang the ornament.
Select a pipe cleaner and make a little dent in one end to stop the buttons sliding off the end of the pipe cleaner. Then sort out the buttons into large to small size order and thread onto the pipe cleaner starting with the largest on the bottom. We topped ours off with a little red star found at Spotlight. Then wind a little loop into the excess pipe cleaner and thread some ribbon through!
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