Let’s make fairly button ornaments with the youngsters to hold on the Christmas tree!
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Easy methods to Make Button Ornaments
Every week I put collectively artwork initiatives for a gaggle of three to 5-year-old kids. So I discover myself wandering the aisles in an arts and crafts provide retailer typically. You in all probability have a lot of the gadgets required to make these ornaments already, and it’s an important excuse to dive into that jar of buttons you will have.
We love these selfmade ornaments as a result of they’re enjoyable and simple to make, and you can also make them in no matter colour matches your Christmas colours.
Provides wanted to make button ornaments
- Paper mache ball
- Paint
- Buttons
- Mod Podge
- Paintbrush
- Eye screws (small)
- String or ribbon
We discovered paper mache balls within the paper mache part at our craft retailer.
Directions for making button ornaments
Step 1
Wind eye screws into the paper mache balls. Tie a loop of string to every one. You should utilize this loop to hold the ornaments whereas portray and gluing buttons to them. After you might be completed, substitute the string if it has paint or glue on it earlier than hanging the decoration on the tree.
Step 2
Paint your paper mache balls within the colours of the buttons you will be gluing to the decoration. Set them apart to dry earlier than shifting onto the following step. You must solely want one coat of paint.
Step 3
Utilizing Mod Podge, glue buttons to the painted paper mache ball. We used buttons of varied shades and shapes. For the white ball, we included silver buttons and snowflakes too. Set the ornaments apart till they’re dry earlier than hanging them on the Christmas tree.
Our completed button ornaments
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Prep Time
5 minutes
Energetic Time
45 minutes
Whole Time
50 minutes
Problem
Medium
Estimated Price
$10
Supplies
- Paper mache ball
- Paint
- Buttons
- Mod Podge
- String or ribbon
Instruments
- Paintbrush
- Eye screws (small)
Directions
- Wind the attention screws into the paper mache ball. Connect a chunk of string to it for hanging your decoration when you are adorning it.
- Paint the paper mache ball in a colour that matches the buttons you’ve got chosen. Set it apart to dry.
- Connect buttons all around the painted ball utilizing Mod Podge.
- Set the ball apart to dry earlier than you hold it in your tree.
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Have you ever made these paper mache ball button ornaments on your Christmas tree?
