Button Paperclips

Buttons!  Buttons!!  Buttons!!!  

Interesting Information...

Over 3,000 years ago, during the Bronze Age, the first buttons, fashioned from bone, horn, wood, metal or shells, were used for decoration.  Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothes appeared first in Germany in the 13th century.

Buttons Continue to be a Big Part of My Life!

When my daughters were younger they would string, count, sort, and glue buttons to create art masterpieces!  We read stories about buttons - we LOVED reading CORDUROY, (the bear whose button goes missing) by Don Freeman!  We sewed buttons on dolls and clothes.  We have quite a collection and continue finding purposes for these little gems!  Our latest project, attaching buttons to paper clips.

So many textures, sizes, colors, designs!

Great page markers! (Great book, too!)

Useful for all ages! (Another must read!)

Organize important papers, like Julia's art.

Package in cellophane for gifts!

How to...

Remove shank with a "Shank Remover" available 
at fabric or craft supply stores.

Arrange clips so they are uniform, on a firm card.

Cut corresponding felt squares or circles.  

Sandwich paperclip between button and felt 
with a small dab of hot glue. 

Create a patriotic theme!  
We will give a these to our visiting students, staying with us from Taiwan!