Looking for a fun craft to do this Christmas Holiday Season?
These Button Christmas Trees were SO much fun to make!! Of course it's even more fun when you craft with friends.. so gather some friends, have them each bring some old buttons, straight pins and a styrofoam cone.. you'll be in for hours of fun and giggles!
My friend Joy and I saw this idea on Pinterest LAST YEAR and never had time to make our trees, so we finally set a date, and invited Roxanne to join us, and the 3 of us sat and had the best afternoon making our button trees last weekend!
Button Tree Supplies you'll need:
- Styrofoam cone (tree) – we used 9", 10", 12" and 14" cones, available at craft stores
- Buttons – we used between 250 and 350 buttons per tree (approx) – mostly retired Stampin' Up! buttons
- Straight pins with pearl heads – we used white and red, approx 350 to 450 per tree (some buttons required 2 or 4 pins to keep them secure). Click to see the white ones I used.
- a topper "ornament" for your tree – optional
These were the buttons I brought for us to share (plus the huge ones not shown in this photo), and I think almost all of them are retired Stampin' UP! buttons (me, a hoarder??). I did buy the cute bright green ones on the left on Amazon along with the pins.
The cone above is a green styrofoam cone, and you'll notice it shows between the buttons… which was ok with me.
I also found pre-glittered cones last year and we used those for our trees, too.
When I posted these on Facebook last weekend, I was asked if I had any tips…
- pick a color scheme
- start around the bottom, then work your way up
- I preferred to work with my larger buttons toward the bottom and tried to use smaller ones at the top
- fill in empty spots with tiny buttons
- have more pins on hand than you think you'll need
- have fun!!
Are they just too much fun or what!? I love them!! I'm so glad we made them!
Thanks Roxy and Joy for being my crafty partners in crime!
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Adorable!!! Looks like a great holiday addition! Thanks for sharing!!!
Can you please send a link for the pins please. Tha ks.
Where can you purchase green foam cones please
6 years ago when I made these i got them at michaels but I assume you can get them on amazon now too
I would love the link too Please and thank you
Thank you Patty, they are so beautiful, it is a great idea!! I had bought a lot of bottoms of different colors to do some crafting with my grandson when he was a kid, but now that he is a teenager he doesn’t like to do that; now I am goma use them in this gorgeous project,
So glad you enjoyed it!!!
This is great! The trees are very cute but I really love seeing the “crafting time with friends!” 🙂 TFS!
Hello from Florida!
I just love your site!
Having an Autistic grandson, who he & I have been doing arts n crafts since he was 2, your site is a Big Hit at Mimi’s house for our weekends! If possible would you please send me a Catalog? If you Private Message me, I will forward my address. We are going to start with the Button Christmas Tree & I’m sure I will need some items.
In addition I love the Candy Cane Wreath, but the link is in Spanish only, any possibility of getting an English version? I want to share your link with the Puzzle Too Autistic Academy my grandson attends, so they can do a class project. I will also share with our local Girl Scouts, the Button Tree & Wreath would be awesome gifts for the nursing home patients the girls visit & take handmade holiday cheer items for their rooms.
Can’t wait to get everything so my grandson, Anthony & Mimi can start our Holiday Crafts! 💗
Love the beautiful trees. Look like fun. I’m going to try this project.
Where can I find these special pins?
Thank you for sharing.
As mentioned in the post, I got them on Amazon. Craft stores and fabric stores usually stock them as well.
Oh!! So adorable ☺️ idea
What a cute (and time consuming) idea! These are darling! Great work, Patty. Thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Patty,
I am just looking at your blog and seeing those darling trees. They remind me of ornaments I used to make with beads, sequins and pins. Your trees are just so nice. Your partners in crime look pretty nice too. So lucky to have friend time to chat and make thinks together. So fun!
Best wishes,
Karren
II
These rock my world. I’m definitely going to have to make one or two in the New Year. Thanks for sharing your project with us.
We have made these for several years for my church bazaar. Always a sell out!
You have the best home decor ideas. A couple years ago, you made trees from these same cones using curled strips of my favorite SU! Christmas DSP ever. I immediately made three for myself, then more to gift to a sweet elderly man I know. He displays it year-round!
I love the homespun, cozy charm of these button trees. I have enough buttons to make one large tree, I think. And I know a group of women who would love to make these with me. Thank you for the wonderful ideas, Patty!
Fun! Great way to use up retired buttons too!
Awesome idea Patty!, I love them!
This is a fabulous project Patty!!
I would like a catalog.
Thank you for asking!! If you used the catalog request form, you will get a confirmation from me and I’ll send it out soon!! https://pattystamps.com/request-a-stampin-up-catalog-from-patty
Would like a catalog or website
Thanks.. yes, you are on my website, and you can request a catalog here: https://pattystamps.com/request-a-stampin-up-catalog-from-patty
lindo espétacular,grande imaginação!Parabéns
These are really cute. Great for kids bedrooms.
Love – I am going to make the trees this year!!
I do like them,,,, do you sale them ? lf so cost and S&H
Thank you.. that was 5 years ago that I made them.. sorry, I haven’t made any since then and I don’t sell them.
I’m sorry, my history is not going back 5 years on Amazon to find them.. but you can search for pins with pearl heads, or long pins with colored heads, or whatever you’d like for your trees.
Thanks for sharing. I am already making these. I am using a 6″ cone.
I have a lot of button from my grandmas, will have to make a tree with all of them . Thanks for this great idea
I got pins and buttons from Amazon. My husband and I just made 2. Fun for retirees sitting at home.
So glad you enjoyed them!!!
How long should the pens be? Such a cute idea
The pins I linked to in the post are 1-1/2″ long.
What size pin heads did you use? It’s difficult to find what I want (gold pin heads) locally so I have to order online…..and that’s next to impossible to know. I don’t want them too big!
The pins I used are linked in the post above.. I don’t know if the description says what size the pin head is, sorry. You can click it to see if it gives that info.
I had to purchase all of my buttons from scratch as I cannot pilfer my Mom’s collection, as the tree is going to be for her, and she has all of my Grandmother’s buttons as well…what a time going through Etsy and finding vintage buttons! Cannot wait for them to arrive and craft her tree, though I may have to bribe my neighbor to let me use her house as I have three troublemaking cats who may want to lend a paw or two…
Hope you have fun making them!!