There is not much left before the New Year holidays, and some are already starting to prepare in order to be on time. Those who love needlework try to make something new with their own hands to decorate the house. this is a very interesting and inexhaustible field for creative imagination. Other decorative elements, such as or stones, are not at home for everyone, but many have buttons. And they can be put to good use.
We have already talked with you that they are a very fertile material for creativity and decoration. Considered many options. But, in relation to Christmas toys, everything is much more interesting. In this case, absolutely all buttons, different colors and different sizes, can come in handy.
New Year holidays and Christmas are always fun and good mood, these are common holidays for all relatives and friends, so you can prepare for them with the whole family. Even the smallest can make New Year's toys from buttons with their own hands. And under the guidance of adults, they will create real masterpieces.
The choice of such jewelry is very large. It can be Christmas trees, balls, stars, snowflakes, wreaths, postcards, snowmen, various figures and familiar characters. Everyone can choose what he likes best or create a whole collection of jewelry of one kind. It will be both unusual and original.
As good examples, let's look at ready-made Christmas decorations. Let's start with the balls.
The principle of their decoration is very simple. It is necessary to take the base of a round shape and decorate it with buttons. As a basis, you can use a foam, plastic ball or sew it from knitwear and fill it with padding polyester. If none of the listed materials is available, then, in the end, you can make a ball from white paper by pressing it tightly. Over the form, the buttons are either glued or sewn on.
Buttons can be very different, colored or plain. If you spray the finished ball from a can of paint, it will turn out completely in one color, but at the same time retain the texture of the buttons.
The simplest, in my opinion, toys are small Christmas trees, almost completely made of buttons. These are the ones that the smallest members of the family can handle. It is necessary to take flat buttons of different sizes and string them on a thread. It will turn out something like a pyramid and very similar to a Christmas tree. In a similar way, you can make snowmen and pretty wreaths.
And if you have a lot of buttons lying around on your farm, then you can make bigger Christmas trees by making a conical base and sticking a variety of buttons on it. After all, large Christmas trees are not placed in every room of the house, but this one can be placed everywhere.
During the New Year holidays, it is customary in many families to hang bright Christmas wreaths on the doors. Why not make them from buttons? They will look no less bright than wreaths of cones and spruce branches. The base of the wreath can be foam (flat or convex), cardboard or fabric.
Having cut out a circle with a hole in the middle, you can decorate it with buttons in different ways: in a chaotic manner, with rays, or lay out in multi-colored tiers in a circle. Such a wreath will decorate any door in your house and create a cheerful mood. And its appearance can be not only round, but also in the form of a heart.
Snowflakes are a very original decoration made of buttons. They look funny and creative. They can be created on any basis using twigs, cardboard, and even ice cream sticks.
If you have wire, then string buttons with holes on it and you will get a charming snowflake. The same can be done with threads.
And how to do without postcards during the New Year holidays? If you want your congratulations to be remembered for a long time, then make a beautiful New Year's card with your own hands, which can be perfectly decorated with various buttons. It will turn out both bright and unusual. Involve children in their creation, who will then give them to their grandparents.
And if you are at least a little familiar with sewing, then an even greater field for creativity opens up for you. With your own hands, you can sew them with felt, napkins or other non-loose fabric, a lot of not complicated, a wide variety of Christmas toys and decorate them with buttons. Original figurines can also be made from thick multi-colored cardboard.
Such products will not leave anyone indifferent. As you can see, Christmas decorations using buttons are very diverse and very creative. Your tree and your house will turn into a fabulous fantasy with such New Year's crafts. If you don’t have enough buttons in your household, then perhaps your friends and relatives have them as an unnecessary burden. And you can create wonderful Christmas decorations from them and give them to your loved ones. Experiment and be creative.
Buttons can become a truly magical tool for creativity and creating beautiful original Christmas decorations.
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From buttons you can make a variety of Christmas decorations in the form of figures of Santa Claus, a snowman, Christmas trees, snowflakes, wreaths, as well as balls that can be used both for decorating a Christmas tree and for a festive interior decor.
To make a ball of buttons, you will need:
- a ball of foam, polystyrene, polyurethane foam or floral sponge;
- pins with a head in the form of a bead (optional - glue);
- ordinary buttons with holes;
- ribbon 
The polystyrene or polystyrene ball itself can be purchased at online stores, from a floristic sponge - at flower shops, and you can even make a ball from polyurethane foam yourself, however, the process is not easy, so it will be easier to buy. Alternatively, you can use a fabric ball tightly filled with padding polyester. If, for the sake of children's safety, you plan to use glue, and not pins, then you can take any ball - plastic, rubber, tennis, to which buttons can be glued.
Depending on which buttons you will use, the ball must be pre-dyed or left in its original color. For example, if you want to make a New Year's toy from white and beige buttons, then leave the ball white, but if you want to make it bright red with a green ornament, then it is better to paint the foam from a can.
Attach with pins or glue a loop of ribbon or string with glue, for which the ball can be hung on the Christmas tree. Then, button by button, gently pin to the ball with pins. You can combine colors and sizes of buttons, fasten 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 certain order to make figures of snowmen, men or small Christmas trees.
Here is a small tutorial on how to assemble a small snowman on a string. 
You can also stick buttons on some kind of base, such as sticks to create a snowflake, a cardboard circle for a wreath, and the like.
More examples of Christmas decorations from buttons:
Decorative Christmas button wreaths
The Christmas door wreath is a popular holiday decoration in Western countries. Most often, wreaths are hung on the outside of the doors of the house. Nothing prevents us from inheriting the tradition and decorating the interior with wreaths for the holidays. A button wreath can be made in several ways.
Buttons can be glued onto a cardboard circle, like this:
To make a voluminous wreath of buttons, you can sew a cover, fill it with padding polyester, and sew buttons on top.
Small Christmas trees from 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 foam, polystyrene or thick cardboard;
- buttons;
- fabric or colored paper (optional);
- pins (or glue, wire, thread with a needle).
The course of work is identical to the creation of Christmas balls with buttons. If you are using a Styrofoam or other foam cone, you can attach the buttons to the base with pins. If you have a cardboard cone, then you can sew on the buttons with thread or fasten with wire. Also in both cases, you can use glue. It is better to pre-paint the base green or cover it with a green cloth or paper.
Button garlands
It is very easy 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.
Hello dear readers!
Have you ever made button crafts? It turns out that this is an interesting and exciting activity, a real hand made for the 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.
New Year crafts from buttons
Let's start with Christmas crafts.
From buttons for the New Year, you can make a Christmas wreath, voluminous Christmas toys, 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, unzip 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.
Accumulated buttons can be given a new life and decorate different gizmos with them.
flower pot decoration
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.
Crafts from buttons with your own hands: 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 for kids
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 balloon, 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 in a 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 that you will be able to collect a large collection of buttons that match the 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:
- Large buttons are coated with copper acrylic paint.
- After drying with a brush with stiff bristles, green iridescent paint is unevenly applied so that gaps in the copper layer remain.
- We dry.
- We mix grey-green, mother-of-pearl paints and water and cover the buttons.
- 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.
These are different, beautiful and original crafts from buttons with your own hands, in principle, it is not difficult to make them. I hope these photos inspire you. Creative success to you!
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Irina Mazina
We need a foam blank, pins, multi-colored buttons.
We attach buttons with pins to ball. Can be arranged buttons multi-colored stripes, you can-chaotically around ball so that there is no space left.
IN button several holes - preferably to attach with a pin in each. When the ball is ready, attach a bow to it. The bow needs to be attached with a few pins, as when you decorate it buttons, it will be heavy. You can decorate bells in the same way using buttons of different sizes.
So unusual balls to decorate the Christmas tree. I used balloons for making a winter bouquet. To decoration ball older children can be involved. It promotes the development of creativity and fine motor skills of the hands.
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