Easy Button Snowflake Craft

December 27, 2022 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Once Christmas and Hanukkah are over it feels like we’re facing a long winter without much to celebrate or decorate. But snowflakes are a fun motif that we can keep using for crafts through the winter season.

If you have a stash of craft sticks and white (or blue, or really any colors you like) buttons, this snowflake craft from Red Ted Art is low prep and pretty easy to make for kids with good gluing skills.

These are fun to hang in windows or anywhere else that needs a little brightening up this time of year.

Head to Red Ted Art for all the details.

[Photo: Red Ted Art.]

Use recycled buttons to create colorful button art. Simply glue the buttons onto a piece of paper or canvas in a pattern or design of your choice. This is a great way to use up small buttons and create a unique piece of art.
Use recycled buttons to decorate a picture frame. Glue buttons onto a plain picture frame to add a pop of color and interest. You can use different sizes and colors of buttons to create a unique look.
Use recycled buttons to create a button bracelet or necklace. Simply thread the buttons onto a length of string or elastic and tie the ends together to create a fun and colorful piece of jewelry.
Use recycled buttons to decorate a cardboard box. Glue buttons onto a cardboard box to create a colorful and unique storage container. You can use different sizes and colors of buttons to create a one-of-a-kind design.
Use recycled buttons to create a button mosaic. To do this, glue buttons onto a piece of paper or cardboard in a pattern or design of your choice. This is a great way to use up small buttons and create a beautiful piece of art.

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Celebrate Inventor’s Day by Learning about Inventors

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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