Handicrafts with buttons: 6 creative ideas

Crafting with buttons
6 creative ideas

by Claudia Enders
October 21, 2021, 9:51 am

Old buttons from worn-out items of clothing definitely don’t have to end up in the trash, because they can still be used to make unusual things. We have put together inspirations and ideas for you here:

Creative craft ideas with buttons

Design decorative pillows with buttons

To dream! You will soon be decorating your decorative pillows with lots of colorful buttons and using them to create imaginative pictures like this balloon ride.

Tinker winter motifs

Funny winter motifs can be tinkered with the help of two white buttons, some embroidery thread, a needle and thread. You can either make cards yourself in this way or decorate textiles with the little snowmen.

Make boutonniere with buttons

You can’t have enough small boutonniere! Either they upgrade your jackets or bags and pouches. All you need is stencils of differently sized flower shapes, textile material (e.g. artificial leather), buttons, pins, tailor’s chalk, scissors, needle and thread. Transfer the flower shapes to the material with tailor’s chalk and cut out the flowers. Baste them together according to their size and sew a button in the middle. Attach a pin to the back and your flower power pin is ready!

Tinker greeting card

A beautiful greeting card is definitely a surprise for the recipient. Buttons can be used to put many motifs together to create a colorful picture, for example: B. Flowers, sun, stars, etc. This is a nice crafting idea, especially for children, who do not need a lot of material in addition to a card, craft glue, buttons and, if necessary, decorative ribbons.

Make flower decorations out of buttons

This little DIY is done quickly. You need: a button and some craft wire. The craft wire is put in loops around the button and passed through the buttonholes in between. At the end, twist the wire well, fasten it and push the end through a buttonhole so that there is no risk of injury and the wire is safely stowed away. The small flowers can be used as table decorations.

Tinker plant plugs

Do you want to spice up your flower pots a bit? Then add a few extra splashes of color by making flower plant plugs. You can create colorful plant plugs with craft felt, kebab skewers and buttons. The best way to do this is to use hot glue to glue it together.

More nice ideas for crafting with buttons

For the fir trees to hang up, all you need is buttons in a wide variety of shades of green, craft wire and either small pearls or stars to thread on as the crowning glory.

Colorful buttons offer plenty of scope for creative design ideas: Simply stick on buttons and then draw doodles all around.

Looking for more ideas for crafting? Here you can find out how you can make modeling clay yourself. And here you can find more inspiration for handicrafts with pine cones and handicrafts with natural materials.

Brigitte