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Button Bracelet

Develop fine motor skills and practice needleless sewing with this colorful button bracelet craft. Add bells for a wonderful wearable musical instrument.

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Materials Needed

Buttons
String
Craft foam
Scissors
Pencil
Round bells (optional)

Safety Guidelines

Lighter or matches must only be handled by an adult.
Watch out for this sign . It means you need an adult's help for the particular step.

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Steps

	1.	Cut a ¾-inch wide strip of craft foam long enough to go around your wrist.
	2.	Mark 4 equally-spaced points along the length of the craft foam strip.
	3.	Add 2 more points- one beside the 2nd and the other beside the 3rd points. Now you have a total of 6 marked points.
	4.	Use the tip of a pencil to punch a hole through each marked point.
	5.	Cut a piece of string about 4 inches longer than your craft foam strip. Make a knot on one end. For easier stringing, you can ask an adult to singe the other end of the string.
	6.	Insert the string through the first hole along the craft foam strip. String the first button, weaving in through one hole and out through the other buttonhole.
	7.	Continue stringing the buttons until you reach the first pair of middle holes along the craft foam strip. Sew through these pair of holes on the craft foam.
	8.	Sew more buttons until you reach the next pair of middle holes. Again, sew through these pair of holes on the craft foam.
	9.	Add more buttons until you reach the last hole along the craft foam. Insert the string through this hole and pull it all the way through.
	10.	Make a looped knot at the back.
	11.	Cut the excess length of string.
	12.	You've just finished making your wonderful button bracelet.
	13.	To wear the bracelet, put it around your wrist and close by hooking the loop around the nearest button on the opposite end of the bracelet.

More Ideas

		Make a jingling button bracelet by stringing round bells alternately with buttons. This would be a great wearable craft for a music-themed week or something that kids could wear for a performance.
		Create a Christmas-themed version of this bracelet by using green, red, and gold materials. Kids can have fun singing Christmas carols while shaking their pretty jingling bracelets.
		To take the Christmas spirit further, you can create a Christmas character to glue onto the middle button. This Santa face was cut from pink construction paper and decorated with wiggle eyes, a red pompom for the nose, cotton for the beard and hat trimmings, a small red triangular paper for the hat, and a moon-shaped sticker for the mouth.

Earth Friendly Tips

When it's finally time to dispose of, or dismantle your craft project, sort out the materials that you can re-use (e.g. buttons, wiggle eyes, pompoms, string, etc.).

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