How to Make Button Christmas Tree Ornaments

These button Christmas trees can be fabricated as tree ornaments or table toppers. Using a glue gun keeps the process quick and easy, but if you'd rather, you can thread your buttons together with a needle and metal thread, the old fashioned way.

Skill Development: fine motor, colour sorting, size society, glue gun feel.

We have a rather large push drove here in my daycare, and we love using these buttons for crafting. My toddlers and preschoolers made these vintage push wreath ornaments one yr, but I've been dying to make these stacked button Christmas trees with my older kids.

Button Christmas Tree Ornaments made with a glue gun

A glue gun makes it easy!

At first I thought nosotros'd use a needle and thread to put our push trees together, but and so information technology dawned on me that a glue gun would brand the process much easier, then that's what we did.

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Child gluing purple buttons together with glue gun

Attaching the string

The merely question was – how to attach the string at the top. I mean, if you lot were threading the buttons together, you'd take a thread leftover at the top to hang the ornaments with, only when you lot're gluing your buttons together, that's non the case.

Pony beads to the rescue!

By adding a pony bead to the top of our trees, we were able to slip some thread through the dewdrop, and voila… a thread to hang it from. Plus, the dewdrop doubles as a decorative topper for our button trees.

Kids take the all-time ideas…

The cool thing about crafting with kids, is they often have ideas of their own that are better than what I've come up with.

Hang them on the tree, OR…

I had hanging ornaments in mind for this arts and crafts, but the kids decided, completely on their own, that some of their button trees would be table toppers instead of hanging ornaments, so they glued an actress-large button to the base of operations of their trees and then they'd stand up without tipping over.

10 Small Christmas tree ornaments made with colourful buttons standing on tabletop

Wouldn't it exist fun to put one of these at each identify setting at your Christmas dinner table? All of your guests volition go to take their own little button Christmas tree dwelling with them. Vivid!

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Supplies:

buttons – various sizes
hot glue gun (or depression-estrus glue gun if working with kids)
craft beads
metallic thread

Instructions:

Time needed:30 minutes.

How to Brand a Push button Christmas Tree (Glue Gun Method)

Choose Your Buttons

Have your kids select 8-12 buttons in one colour family – i.e. various shades of dejection/greens, various shades of pinks/purples. The buttons should vary in sizes from large to small.

For the trunk of the tree, have them select a few small brown buttons.
Sort buttons by size
Lay both sets of buttons out on the table in order from largest to smallest.
Gum buttons together
Using a low-heat glue gun, glue the buttons together, starting with the largest coloured push button on the bottom, working upwardly, finishing with the smallest buttons on peak.
Add a bead
Glue a pony dewdrop to the very top push. A star or a centre is especially pretty, simply fifty-fifty a regular pony bead will exercise.
Attach the trunk
Glue the chocolate-brown buttons together in order from biggest to smallest, and gum the torso to the bottom of the button tree.
For a Hanging Ornament:
If you'll exist hanging your ornamentation, slip a piece of metallic thread through the holes in the pony bead and secure with a knot
For a Table Topper
If you'll be using your button trees as table height decorations, glue an actress large button to the lesser of your tree trunk to provide a base for standing.