Buttons, of course, are absolutely universal.
Just look at how much New Year’s beauty you can create from them.
Here is such an original postcard you cano to make a gift for the New Year to relatives and friends. Buy as many buttons of all kinds of shades of green and different sizes as you can in the handicraft store or pick from your old stocks and get to work.
This DIY New Year card is an example of how you can use buttons to make crafts from improvised materials in an original way.
For manufacturing you will need:
- buttons
- cardboard
- scissors
- thick colored paper
The process of making crafts:
1. Cut a blank for postcard from white cardboard.
2. Draw a Christmas tree outline on the workpiece. Then, according to the pattern, start gluing the buttons. Alternate different sizes and shades of buttons to achieve a beautiful color effect. Glue the beads in places to decorate.
3. Where without gifts for the New Year! They can be cut out of pieces of dense colored paper, wrapped with threads (they will serve as ribbons) and also glued small buttons on them.
4. Glue gifts on the card.
5. Let the finished composition dry, after which you can give the New Year card to friends and relatives.
Children's creativity - It is very important for the development of a harmonious personality. It forms a taste, affects the development of creative abilities of a child. Do-it-yourself craftsmanship classes are necessary for the formation of qualities such as accuracy, perseverance, hard work.
Any housewife accumulates over the years a large number of tailor buttons. All this colorful and diverse wealth can be put into action right now, in preparation for the New Year. Maternity.ru shares ideas on making Christmas tree decorations and New Year's cards from ordinary buttons!
Button Snowflakes
Bright multi-colored snowflakes made from pieces of felt or other dense fabric with button decor are an original decoration for the Christmas tree, an element for garland design or gift wrapping, a letter to Santa Claus or a New Year card for relatives and friends. Such snowflakes can be made at home with mom or at school in a labor lesson.A buttoned snowflake can be made “truly” snow-white and constructed using a few ice cream sticks. Glue them and decorate with buttons. In the middle we attach a cute funny pompom.
A snowflake can be made from sticks and sprigs of spruce. In this case, the spruce twig can be "snowed". For example, using correction fluid. We fix the bright red buttons in the center. We make the fastening rope. It turned out an unusual decoration in ethnic style.
You can cut out a patterned snowflake from white felt, decorate it with a soft blue button and light embroidery.
Using silver wire and colored buttons, we assemble a frame snowflake.
Christmas balls and other toys for a Christmas tree from buttons
Try to make exclusive Christmas balls. To do this, we select the necessary buttons and glue them to ordinary Christmas balls. We decorate with ribbons and rhinestones, beads. Such balls can be gifted!Large bright balls with button decor can be additionally decorated with small “snow” chips - from beads, polystyrene foam or beads. It looks very winter-like and helps cover the holes in the buttons.
Exclusive design balls can be created using original buttons and a base made of soft fabric, wire or a plastic Christmas ball. 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 other interesting toys. For example, flat wireframes of balls, hearts and stars.
Toys made of felt base with decoration from buttons are simple in execution and look stylish!
Special small Christmas-tree decorations can be made of buttons with a child. For example, type green buttons of different diameters in the form of a pyramid - Christmas trees.
Cute funny button snowmen may appear on the Christmas tree. They can also be attached to gift wrapping or greeting card.
And you can collect the whole bottom from the buttons, and make decoration for the Christmas tree - easy and simple!
Button Christmas Trees
Button decor can decorate voluminous Christmas trees. They can be green, with bright decorations or "in the snow." Such a tree may well become 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, make handmade greeting cards or decorate boxes with gifts yourself, the idea of \u200b\u200bdecorating with buttons is for you.Draw a Christmas tree on a gift box or postcard and glue colored 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 the image of Christmas balls or luminous lights of a garland.
If you place such a work in a beautiful frame, you will get a great handmade gift. Show this idea to the kids, maybe they will want to give this picture to their grandparents. Kindergarten teachers can take this New Year’s handicraft so that preschool children prepare a beautiful gift for their families on holiday days.
Packaging and postcards can be decorated with tubes of colored paper and large bright buttons. It is also convenient to make such an application in class in a kindergarten or at school.
More experienced craftsmen can go further and create a whole New Year's composition. Such a winter picture-application can be a great gift, an exhibit for a school exhibition, or even sold at a Christmas charity fair!
Using colored paper, colorful lace and a large number of buttons, you can depict a fluffy Christmas tree with a pile of gifts under it!
You can decorate with buttons buttons on gift tags or small cards with wishes.
Button garlands
From large buttons you can make garlands for decorating spruce, home decoration and New Year's costumes. You can use the chain, as in the photo, or you can tie or put large buttons on the threads.
Garlands with toys and Christmas decorations can be hung in the area for gifts, on a Christmas tree or on the wall. We cut the figure out of the fabric, sew it along the edge, stuff it with cotton or cloth. Decorate with buttons. Toys for the garland are ready!
New Year's button interior design
According to the previous scenario, you can create Christmas trees on a stick. They can be arranged in the interior or on the festive table.
The portal Motherhood.ru already talked about how to make
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You can make Christmas decorations for your home with your own hands from the most common household items, the main thing is to show your imagination! Today in again we will get out our multi-colored collections and see how you can use these little beauties in preparation for the holidays.
Creating compositions from buttons, how to assemble a puzzle is not a quick, but very exciting lesson. Involve children in the process - button crafts develop creative abilities, sometimes it’s enough to make a little effort to get a good result, there would be suitable ideas. Well, for inspiration, I suggest taking advantage of my today's examples of creating New Year decorations, gifts and Christmas toys from buttons.
Christmas wreaths of buttons. There are several options for creating such wreaths. It is possible, as in the first example, to make a cover of fabric for a tight-fitting finished shape and embroider it with bright buttons. If you make a wreath of green woolen threads, you get something like a pine branch, and the buttons attached on top will replace the Christmas balls. A small wreath on a wire frame is suitable for decorating a Christmas tree. 
Christmas trees from buttons. To create a Christmas beauty, we need a ready-made foam base or a dense paper cone. There are many examples on the Internet how to make it, so let's move on to the buttons right away. 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 a very beautiful and uncomplicated Christmas decoration for the home, which can be done together with the children. 
Christmas balls made from buttons. A ball of buttons can become both a Christmas tree toy and an element of the New Year's decoration of the apartment, it is not difficult to make it, especially if there is a special foam blank in stock. 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. 
From the buttons you get very cute New Year's compositions, the plots themselves are simple: an elegant tree, a snowflake, a Christmas wreath. Pay attention to how good this picture looks if you make it a good frame. 
Creating Christmas toys from buttons with children is a pleasure, 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 by a pyramid, but there are other equally worthy options. 
Gifts from buttons. The ideas from the previous section are suitable not only for decorating the Christmas tree, but also as an additional souvenir made by yourself and pinned to the festive packaging of a New Year's gift. Here are a couple of similar ideas. 
New year cards with buttons. If you and your child are going to make New Year cards with your own hands, do not forget about the buttons! These little helpers will be very welcome here. A button can successfully replace a painted Christmas ball, flower, or even a whole snowman. 
If you have accumulated buttons, make them yourself paintings, panels, jewelry for clothes.
Making paintings from buttons with your own hands
There are many ideas. They will help to create artistic masterpieces for children and adults. For it use:
- buttons of different colors;
- glue;
- thick cardboard or thin plywood;
- a simple pencil.
Paint the plywood or cardboard in the desired color, let the canvas dry. Redraw on it the outlines of a future masterpiece. As you can see, the vase is lined with bronze buttons. For its fringing, small fittings are used, inside are larger ones.
Put the fun-colored buttons on the canvas to form flowers from them. Put the stems and leaves in green. If you have many white buttons, decorate the background with them. This will help the picture become more voluminous and original.
Even if you have a few buttons, this does not hurt to make a panel.
This idea will certainly appeal to children. But first, cook with them:
- white cardboard;
- paints;
- buttons
- glue;
- a brush;
- a bath of water;
- white paper.
Let the child fold in half a strip of white paper, draw on it the right side of the butterfly. When he unfolds the leaf, he will get a white-winged insect. It will remain to paint the body of the insect with a thin brush with black paint, apply the drawing on the wings and after the paint dries, stick the butterfly to the flowering tree.
Using buttons, you can create another tree with your own hands.
To reproduce such an idea, take:
- buttons of brown, red and yellow;
- blue, white and yellow watercolor paints;
- glue;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- photo frame;
- pencil.
- First, the cardboard is covered with watercolors. Draw a blue sky, for this, add a little blue to white, mix with a brush. The location of the earth may be green if grass grows there, and if sand, then make this part of the background yellow.
- After the paint has completely dried, draw the contours of the tree on a canvas with a pencil.
- Fill the trunk with buttons of a brown shade, black. Attach the red and yellow to the crown. You can use other tones.
- Put the picture in a frame and you can hang a masterpiece on the wall.
After drawing the background with paints, you need to give time to dry them. On a 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 to its place.
Now let the children give free rein to the fantasy by gluing buttons of various colors on the crown.
Hang the picture in the living room with large buttons, medium and small in size.
First draw the sea; it is bordered by a coastline composed of sand. So make it yellow. Next comes the darker coastal spit, in the background it is green.
Now you need to stick white buttons on the sea so that they give the water an extra sparkle. Shells in the sand can be either light or darker tones.
The following button pattern will also help relaxation after a hard day.
First, gouache draws a blue sky background and green, which will become stems of flowers. 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 eagle owl, take:
- a wooden plank;
- two metal loops;
- a rope;
- buttons
- a twig.
Apply the outline of a bird to the board. Lay around the eyes, bodies and wings with brown buttons, and make the tummy, the outline around the pupils of white buttons, the pupils of black. Attach a red beak instead.
Glue the wooden stick down. Attach the eagle owl's paws to and around it.
These accessories will help to realize the most daring ideas. To make a Christmas tree for the New Year, take:
- buttons of green, light green shade of different sizes, brown;
- green thread;
- a needle with a big eye;
- scissors.
A star can be made from accessories of this shape or cut out of cardboard, also by flashing 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;
- a vase.
Interesting button crafts include watches 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 hang the original calendar on the wall or put on a table near it.
If you have a lot of such accessories, you can decorate with it a mirror, a wall in the bathroom and even a toilet bowl.
But first the surface needs to 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 glance.
If you liked crafting a Christmas tree, see what other crafts for the New Year can be made from buttons.
Degrease the surface of the ball, add buttons to it in tone. If you celebrate the New Year outdoors 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 the buttons in height or large in the middle, small at the edges. The color scheme can also be varied.
What New Year’s snowflakes do not do, 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;
- a rope;
- metal hangers;
- pliers.
On the face, this blank will look like this.
Glue the remaining buttons to the metal wire.
Such Christmas snowflakes can be hung on a Christmas tree, on the wall. To do this, glue a rope to the end of the snowflake, tie a loop.
Here is another idea that will tell you how to make a Christmas tree from buttons.
String green on the wire, thread both ends through two large buttons that 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 in order to serve a festive table in this way, take:
- flexible transparent plastic kitchen board;
- buttons
- glue;
- scissors.
A flower made from sewing accessories also looks great. And you will make original candles from old shoes or those that are small for a child. Glue the buttons on the shoes, tie new shoelaces, put fireproof glass jars in the shoes into which the candles are placed.
See what buttons are great helpers in terms of room decor. Sew them onto 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 the curtains with this furniture by sewing them here. Remember what the fashion bamboo curtains used to be? Someone made similar from paper-wrapped postcards of paper clips, beads. You will make such of fittings.
To do this, you will need:
- buttons
- fishing line;
- needle;
- rail;
- scissors.
In this technique, you can make not only curtains for the doorway, but also an analog of the blinds on the windows.
DIY button jewelry: photos and description
You will make them from the same material. See what an unusual belt of buttons turns out. It goes well with jeans. He will need a strong thread so that it does not tear during socks. You can replace it with a thin white rubber band.
Put the thread in the needle, tie both ends of it with a knot. Slide it a little to the side, twist the thread in this place, making a loop. String the first button, then the second and all the others.
They fasten such a belt on a button, throwing it on the eyelet that you did at the beginning.
If you have a man’s shirt, add femininity to her, sew beautiful buttons on the collar.
They will help create your unique image. Make a rainbow bracelet by looking at step-by-step photos. So wonderful it will turn out.
To make a jewelry on your hand, take:
- buttons
- threads
- a needle;
- scissors.
For work, you need flat buttons with four holes. Take a needle with such an eye so that it fits well in them.
Thread the needle and thread through the two opposite holes of the same button on the wrong side. On the face, removing the needle from the second hole, thread it into the first recess of the second button. Put the needle back into the second hole of the first button on the wrong side. On the face, re-thread the needle with the needle into the second hole.
After creating the first row, complete the second while connecting these rows. So do the third one.
Twist the loose ends of the threads with a pigtail. Trim the excess.
Tie a loop from the pigtails that you will put on the button and so fasten the bracelet.
If you have metal buttons on the leg, make such a bracelet. You can attach them to the chain using wire or metal rings.
Lovers of voluminous jewelry can be advised and another necklace on the neck. Accessories are fastened with metal rings or ordinary paper clips.
If you want to make multi-tiered beads from buttons, then pay attention to the following idea. The main thing is to take a very strong thread or fishing line so that at the most inopportune moment they will not break off and the beads will not crumble.
If you have a broken automatic hairpin, and its mechanism is still good, update the thing. To do this, take:
- three flat buttons;
- super glue;
- two beads;
- cord;
- scissors.
Use super glue to attach the buttons.
Lubricate the surface of the metal barrette glue well with glue, attach the button and bead structure here. Then 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 hair clip made by yourself.
If you glue three buttons on regular black invisibles, see how the hairpins are transformed right away.
If you have an elastic band and a button in tone, in 2 minutes you will turn them into a new hair accessory. To do this, you need to slip the edge of the elastic band under the button leg, thread the free end under it, and tie a knot.
Crafts from buttons for themselves are not only jewelry, hair clips, but also shoe decoration in an unusual way. Beach slippers will change in half an hour if you sew bright buttons to them.
If you want the decorated surface to increase, then first sew the buttons on the two triangles of the fabric, and already attach them to the slippers.
Buttons will transform other shoes. If your favorite shoes have scrapes, hide them behind these accessories and everyone will think that you will buy another pair of shoes.
The same applies to sports shoes - slippers, sneakers, sneakers. Why buy new ones if you transform old ones in an hour?
Even if there are only 6 buttons, they will decorate shoes. Sew them on ballet shoes, thereby adding a twist.
Attach the buttons to the leggings, hat to create your original and mischievous look.
As you can see, button crafts can be the most varied and unexpected. With the help of them you will add interesting new shades to your home, create accessories, upgrade shoes and be fashionable, confident.
And in order to better remember what can be done from buttons and recharge with new ideas, see 2 cognitive videos.
From the buttons you can make a variety of Christmas toys in the form of figures of Santa Claus, a snowman, Christmas trees, snowflakes, wreaths, as well as balls that can be used both to decorate the Christmas tree and for the festive decor of the interior.
To make a ball of buttons, you will need:
- a ball made of polystyrene, polystyrene, polyurethane foam or a floral sponge;
- pins with a bead head (optionally glue);
- ordinary buttons with holes;
- ribbon 
The ball made of polystyrene or polystyrene itself can be purchased in online stores, from a floral sponge - in flower shops, and you can even make a ball of polyurethane foam yourself, however, the process is not easy, so it will be easier to buy. Alternatively, you can use a ball of fabric, densely filled with padding polyester. If, for the safety of children, you plan to use glue, not pins, then you can take any ball - plastic, rubber, tennis, to which you can stick buttons.
Depending on which buttons you will use, the ball must be pre-painted or its original color left. For example, if you want to make a Christmas toy from white and beige buttons, leave the ball white, if you want to make bright red with a green ornament, then the foam should be painted from a spray can.
Fasten with pins or glue a loop of tape or rope, for which the ball can be hung on a Christmas tree. Then gently pin the button after the button with pins to the ball. You can combine the colors and sizes of the buttons, fasten the buttons one on top of the other. You can fill the space between the buttons with pins. 
More options for Christmas balls from buttons:
Buttons can be strung on a thread or wire in a specific order to make figures of snowmen, little men or small Christmas trees.
Here is a small workshop on how to put together a little snowman. 
You can also stick buttons on some basis, for example, sticks for creating snowflakes, a cardboard circle for a wreath, and the like.
More examples of Christmas toys from buttons:
Decorative Christmas button wreaths
A Christmas wreath at the door is a popular holiday decoration in Western countries. Most often, wreaths are hung from the outside of the doors of the house. Nothing prevents us from inheriting tradition and decorating the interior with wreaths for the holidays. A button wreath can be made in several ways.
Buttons can be glued on a cardboard circle, like this:
To make a voluminous wreath of buttons, you can sew a cover, fill it with a synthetic winterizer, and sew buttons on top.
Small Christmas tree buttons
Small cone-shaped Christmas trees look great in the interior.
In order to make such a Christmas tree, you will need:
- a cone made of polystyrene, polystyrene or thick cardboard;
- buttons;
- fabric or colored paper (optional);
- pins (or glue, wire, thread with a needle).
The progress is identical to creating Christmas balls with buttons. If you use a cone made of foam or other foam material, then the buttons to the base can be attached with pins. If you have a cardboard cone, then you can sew the buttons with thread or fasten with wire. In both cases, glue can also be used. It is better to pre-paint the base in green or cover it with a green cloth or paper.
Button garlands
It is very simple to make a long garland of buttons. It will take some time, but such an unusual decoration on a Christmas tree or indoors will look very interesting.
