:: February, A Month of Collections :: 13 ::

:: February, A Month of Collections :: 13 :: Buttons ::

This is almost all the buttons I have.
My kiddos and I had fun laying them all out - and talking about things we could use them for.
Some are vintage, some are new, some came from my mom, some came from an antique store here in town, some came from the Netherlands, some came from Australia, and a few of them, I dug out of the ground . . . a couple years ago Ben found an old dump-site buried under a job site. We found old scissors and shoes and glass and tin cans, and three milkglass buttons!

Did you ever play Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?
We used to play it at Back-yard Bible Club.
Oh, fun times. :)
All the kiddos sit in a circle.
A string, with one button on it, is wrapped around the circle.
One kiddo is chosen to sit in the middle.
Everyone passes the button around, behind their backs, on the string . . . until the middle kiddo says stop. Then everyone says button, button, who's got the button? And the middle kiddo tries to guess who has the button behind their back. If guessed correctly, the button holder moves to the middle of the circle . . . and so on. We really thought it was fun. :)

So, there you have buttons and two button stories.