Wednesday, September 21, 2011

fall button branch

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I'm a little obsessed with buttons. I'm always trying to think of new crafts to make that use buttons too. They're just too cute. The kids and I made this craft together and I just love it. We picked out a nice branch from the backyard and then we picked out all our lovely fall-coloured buttons. The buttons are supposed to look like all the beautiful fall leaves we have on our trees. It turned out amazing. Here are the instructions:

What you'll need:

canvas
branch
buttons
glue

Directions:

1. glue your branch onto your canvas. I put a very heavy book on top of the branch while it dried to keep it flat to the canvas.

2. Once the branch is glued and dried, start gluing your beautiful buttons on the smaller branches to look like leaves on a tree. Allow to dry.

3. You're going to want to display this beautiful masterpiece!

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32 comments:

  1. LOVE this idea! Pinned! :)

    Kara
    www.mineforthemaking.com
    www.pinterest.com/kararodgerson

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  3. I love love buttons and fall crafts!! This will be great since we don't have leaves yet. She did a beautiful job!!

    Just so I know what kind of glue did you use? I would think bottle glue would have just been messy and still wouldn't stick good. I do have a few buttons so maybe I will make one first and the kids can later, lol

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  4. love that you used a real branch. the colors of all the buttons are fantastic. i would def. put this in a frame in my house! i am going to dig through my button collection and see if we can try this tomorrow!

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  5. Love it! We'll be doing this in the next month or so...

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  7. I've seen this before but they used green buttons...fall colors are a great idea!

    @dawn~~I would use my handy dandy glue gun!

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  8. Beautiful idea! Amazing colours.
    Greetings

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  9. This is so pretty! I love how you used a real branch.
    Little Wonders' Days

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  10. What a great harvest idea! Love the pretty fall button "leaves!"

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  11. I don't have buttons but would buy some just to make my little one to make this lovely art.
    yes, deserves to be displayed!

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  13. This reminds me that kids can make all kinds of branches, from buttons to cotton balls to paper scraps, etc. Great idea, and boy, these buttons are the cutest. Buttons are always cute! Try it in January and make pussy willow buttons!!!!
    from MaryAnn Kohl, art for kids book author
    www.brightring.com

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  14. I love this. I think tracing a real twig would be nice too.

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  15. Love it! What a wonderful idea. :) Thanks so much for sharing.

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  17. Beautiful, Jill! LOVE how it turned out!

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  18. So cute Jill.

    I signed up for your email updates and I see that I haven't received one for this post or todays post. Has anyone else mentioned this? I can't be missing your posts!

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  20. Thanks ladies!

    Dawn - I actually did use the regular white bottle glue. Since it was my kids gluing the buttons on I thought that would be best. It worked just fine!

    Lila - I have no idea why that is happening and no idea how to fix it! I haven't heard of that problem from anyone else, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. Have you still not received the posts?

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  21. I saw this on Pintrist - LOVE this idea, so pretty!

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  22. I totally did this the day after you posted it. I hot glued the stick on. I may go back through and hot glue the buttons off. My 2-year-old loved this craft

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  24. I came across your site via Craft Gossip and I love this project. Very cute. I too love buttons.

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  25. Hi!
    My name is Alia and I'm your new follower. I came across your site on Craft Gossip. I loooooooved this Button art!
    Do visit my blog too when u have the time!
    Alia
    http://aliascreativelife.blogspot.com/

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  27. Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts today! You can see it here
    http://funfamilycrafts.com/fall-button-branch/

    If you have other kid friendly crafts, I'd love it if you would submit them :) If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.

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  29. What a cute idea! I just wanted to let you know that I've included this in our Button Crafts roundup on the FaveCrafts Blog: http://www.favecraftsblog.com/link-love-buttons-buttons-and-more-buttons/

    Please let me know if you're ever interested in publishing your tutorials with FaveCrafts!

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  31. AH! SO CUTE! Have to use this with my preschool class... by the way, I love the font of the title of this blog... do you by chance know which one it is?

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    1. Thanks Lauren! I'm sorry, but I have no idea what the font is called. I used it when I changed my blog format a couple years ago and it's deeply embedded in my blog html (i.e. Chinese to me) language. I do know I got it off google webfonts though. Maybe you can recognize it from there?? Sorry!

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