lucky buttons tutorial
March 16th, 2014
One of the odd, unwritten blog rules is “thou shalt not blog on weekends,” but I’m crazy like that I guess. Besides tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. And one of the unwritten rules of having school age children is “you must participate in every holiday no matter what.” Pi day? Talk like a pirate day? 100th day of school? Grandparents day? Crazy sock day? I have celebrated them all.
I have also prepared for all of them frantically the night before or the morning of said holiday. If you are nodding in agreement, this craft is for you. If you are throughly prepared with crocheted red beards and cardboard leprechaun hats or if you are genuinely Irish and have been corning your beef for weeks (or however it’s done) then you don’t need me and my slap dash craft.
LUCKY BUTTONS
(a last minute St. Patrick’s day craft)
MATERIALS:
- one button up shirt
- green felt
- scissors
DIRECTIONS:
1. cut your felt into 5 (or however many buttons your shirt has) 2 inch squares
2. cut a shamrock shape out of each square. No, you don’t need a template. You got this. Just think 3 hearts and a stem. Don’t forget to make one lucky 4 leafed one!
3. fold the top leaf down and cut a little slit in the shamrock. Don’t cut too far! It only has to be as big as the buttons on your shirt.
4. button up your shirt and then slip the shamrocks over the buttons. Voila! Celebrate you are an awesome parent day! You’ve earned it.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Lest you think the Internet is totally shut down on the weekends I thought I’d pop in and let you know this craft is adorable and that I too participate, at the very last minute, with all these celebrations!
My dd is not yet old enough to put me through this torment. But when she is I shall have a head full of crocheted beards. But it is, in fact, inevitable that the night before I shall be in need of you and your slapdash craft ;).
Neither do I understand the no Sunday blogging thing. Is it influenced by the American Bible Belt? I read on a Sunday as well as any other day.
I think numbers just go down on the weekend, so people don’t blog. It is the only time I have to read them!
Ha! Clever and cute! Wait, am I blog reading? How did I get here? Did you slip me a blog roofie?
I think you would end up in the dark recesses of youtube if blog roofied–not on a craft blog for kids!
Love this!! I might convince the boys to go back to wearing handsome shirts after seeing this (they’ve been boycotted lately).
This is one of those ‘so simple you have to be clever to think it up’ type of crafts. Never woulda thought to do this!! It’s awesome, meg!
I can’t take credit for the cleverness–that’s all Martha. She did a similar thing with hearts for Valentine’s Day years ago. I’m good at recycling cleverness though :)
i’m gonna report you to the Internets police. love the shamrock buttons, though! i wanna hear how many are still on the shirt after the school day is over. ;)
I’m guessing none…seeing as there was one in the driveway this morning already.
Sadly I am with you the-night-before-this-must-be-worn, though I would love to be a prepared-many-weeks-in-advance type! Such a fun idea!