We have bags of buttons in our craft bins at home. My daughter loves to play with them. She separates them by color & lines them up into rows. She studies the different sizes & textures on the buttons & if I give her a glue bottle & some paper, her face lights up. Last night when she saw me pull out the buttons & construction paper, her face did just that. She pulled up her chair & sat down next to me.
“Mama, what are you doing?”
“Making a gumball machine. You can decorate it with your buttons”
She was thrilled.
Button Gumball Machine Craft
Cut out the shapes to make your gumball machine out of construction paper & glue down to another piece of paper with a glue stick.
Draw & color in the dispenser & dial with crayon.
Instruct your child to glue the buttons into the white circle.
She even named her buttons as she placed them. The purple button was Mai & the brown one was her friend Henry.
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Using buttons for gum balls is truly so clever and definitely have our fair share of extra buttons here to try this one soon, too! 🙂
Fun. I adore buttons!
Thanks. My daughter does too. She had a fun time with this.
The colorful buttons make great gumballs! I love how this comes out!
Thanks Emma, I did too. I thought it looked so cute when she was done. She had a lot of fun making this too.