Button play time

Do you have a "Stash" of Buttons? Here is some great ways to use those buttons as great entertainment for your children.Empty out the button box onto the kitchen table and try these fun activities:

Supplies needed:

• Buttons
• Glue, Yarn, Fabric, Poster Board
• Pie Plate
• Elastic Thread

Button Art: Glue buttons and bits of fabric or yarn onto a poster board to create a textured portrait or landscape
Button Game: Place a pie plate 10 or 15 feet away and see who can pitch the most buttons off the wall and into the pan
Button Jewelry: String elastic thread through the holes of assorted flat buttons. then tie into a loop for a wrist or ankle bracelet
Button Tower: See who can stack the most buttons without toppling the tower