The Zimbabwean Gardener Issue 3 Summer 2012 | Page 47

Christmas crafts for kids

Wow your friends and family with creative button ideas for Christmas!

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Button Gift Wrap

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• Find a button wi
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make sure the butto
stamps well.
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• Stick the button
your stamp. Use
sticky stuff to make
can change the
sticky stuff so you
erent stamps.
buttons and have diff
h, brush paint over
• With a paintbrus
the paper
the stamp and stamp
carefully.
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• Use red and gre
ristmas feel.
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and white
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• Get your
card or tag re
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icking the but
tern
• Using craf
tons on the
t glue, stick
card.
the buttons
design of yo
on making th
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• Add some
lace to make
bows for your
and gold or
snowman
yellow butto
ns for stars fo
your Christm
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as tree.
• Once you
have finished
your card, w
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friends or fa
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Button Christmas tree decorations

ions.
Colourful stray buttons can be put to new use as Christmas tree decorat
tree with green buttons or any colour of your choice.
Make a Christmas
and 50 cm of gold string.
• You need 10 buttons of different sizes; big ones and small ones
order you will thread them, going from the biggest to the smallest.
• Before threading the buttons, put them into the correct
through the bell first and then tie a knot at the folded end.
• Double the gold string and if you have a bell, thread the gold string
oles, starting with the biggest button and finishing with the
• Start threading the two ends of the gold string through the buttonh
smallest one.
hang it on the Christmas tree.
• Add a shiny bead at the top for a star, tie a knot in the string and

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