How to Make the Perfect Mother’s Day Button Bouquet

Flowers for Mother’s Day are great—until they wilt and die. Now you can make and give this perfect Mother’s Day Button Bouquet using vintage buttons that will be everlasting. Finding and selecting the vintage buttons is half the fun. You can start your search at the thrift shops.

Gather these supplies for your bouquet:

• Variety of buttons
• 22 or 24 gauge green floral wire
• Wire cutters
• Salt shaker
• Glitter
• Skewer or knitting needle
• Hot glue

Let’s make a Mother’s Day Button Bouquet:

1. Cut a 10″ to 12″ length of wire. Thread the wire through the button’s holes as shown. You’ll have a long length of wire that will be the stem and a much shorter length for the twist.
2. Tightly twist the wire on the back of the button. Just a few twists will secure the button. The twists should not be visible on the front side when the wire is pressed against the back of the button.
3. Trim any excess  from the shorter wire.
4. Coil the wire stem around the skewer. Get creative with your coiling patterns. Coil a bit, then leave a bit of wire uncoiled, then more coiling. Add a wire stem to each of your buttons. Only coil about one third to a half of the length of  wire nearest the button, leaving the bottom straight and uncut. The finished length of the stem will be adjusted when you begin arranging your “flowers.”
5. Secure the twisted wire on the back of the button with a dab of hot glue.
6. For a sparkly effect, fill the salt shaker with glitter in the color of your choice. If you opt to skip the glitter, plain salt works, too.
7. Now, you’re ready to arrange your button flowers in the salt shaker vase. Just insert the wire stems through the holes in the lid of the salt shaker. You usually can fit two or three stems in each hole.
8. Have fun giving the Mother’s Day Button Bouquet.