Buttons are such a unique item and can be used for so many things. See if you can use your odd buttons for some of these on the list.
Even if the button does not serve as a function of closure, it can be sewed onto a piece of clothing to decorate and adorn items. Buttons can be clustered together to create a specific shape or picture too. Decorate a pair of shoes with a sewn or glued button on them. Use one or more buttons on pocketbooks,purses, zipper pulls, hats, jackets, pajamas, robes, sweat shirts, sweaters and more.Take a look at your button supply and your item and pair them up to decorate and make everything look pretty with buttons.
Glue, paste or hot glue gun a button to a greeting card to make it look fancy, fun and cheery. You can use the button for a face or other purpose on the homemade card.Pick the kind of button that will go best with the card you are making.
Buttons are unique items to give to older children to be creative when there are no toys around. Just monitor the age of the child to make sure that the buttons don't end up in the mouth of the children playing with the buttons.
When tie backs for curtains are needed, buttons will come in handy. The buttons can be strung together to form a strand to tie the curtains back or a ribbon can connect two or more buttons to construct the curtain tie back. There seems to always be a few buttons not being used for anything that you can put to good use as a curtain tie back.
Take a 4 inch piece of thin leather and thread that through one or more holes of the button you want to use for a key chain. Knot the leather so the knot is large enough to keep the button from slipping off. You can use several other strands of leather to put your keys on using the colored buttons to designate what key goes to what item. Your blue car has the blue button and your green house has the green one. The buttons can be any size you choose and the color can be matching the leather or not.
Buttons when they are found on old shirts and blouses are cheap. Save them all from those items before you discard them.
Who knew? Great ideas, I especially like the idea of making key chains.
When I was a kid, women saved buttons. I remember such fun playing in the button jar. Nowadays, we'd say it's therapeutic. Great list. HI5
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