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A salt shaker full of button flowers with a ribbon tied around it against a blue background.
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Cute Button Flowers in a Salt Shaker DIY

Don’t miss this Cute DIY Button Flowers in a Salt Shaker craft for kids! Wire together old or new buttons to create cute flowers that look sweet in a salt shaker as a vase.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Craft, Decorative Craft, Flower Craft, Gift, Mother's Day Craft, Recycled Craft
Cuisine: Craft
Keyword: button flower craft, button flower DIY, Button flowers, Button flowers craft, button flowers in salt shakers
Servings: 1 button flower bouquet in a salt shaker
Author: Shelly
Cost: $5

Equipment

  • pair of wire cutters

Ingredients

Instructions

Button flowers

  • Take your buttons out and find two or three buttons that will stack up and look like a flower. Place the largest one on the bottom and a variety of colors, sizes, and shapes looks nice.
    Make about 10 to 15 groupings of flower buttons.
    Use a piece of craft wire (18-22 gauge wire) to thread up through one hole on a group of your buttons. Then go down through another hole on the buttons. You may have to improvise, depending what your buttons look like and how many holes they have.
    Twist the wire below the button. Make sure that the buttons are about halfway across the wire before twisting. Complete all of your buttons in the same manner.

Salt shaker vase

  • Compare your flower buttons to the height of your salt shaker. You will need a variety of stem lengths.
    Cut your wires to a variety of lengths (with a wire cutters). So that the tallest flower is higher than your salt shaker by almost the same distance as the shaker is tall. For example, if your salt shaker 3 inches tall make your tallest flower about 2 ½ to 3 inches taller than that. 
    Begin placing your wire stems through the holes of the salt shaker. You’ll want the tallest ones in the center and then make the stems a little shorter for the holes that are around the center one.
    Bend and arrange the wires, trimming them to the right size so that it makes a nice looking bouquet.

Video

Notes

That’s it! These are fast and simple to make. You can make them in a variety of colors and use a variety of salt shaker types.
Do you need to give a gift to a teacher or your mom? This craft would be perfect.
Tips and variations and a link to a full length video are on the post.