How To Sew On A Button For Homeschoolers: Free Handicraft Lesson
Learn to sew on a button for homeschoolers can be turned into an easy Charlotte Mason handicraft lesson using today’s free DIY!
The tragedy of a button falling off your child’s shirt shall be a tragedy no more! Oh no my friends for today we learn how to sew on buttons. But not just to reattach it, oh no, but when you make your own garment, pillow, bag, etc., you will need this important skill and today is the infamous day!
How To Sew A Button – For Beginners
If you want your children to learn handicrafts that are useful you have come to the right place!
Todays blog post might be one of the most useful lessons you can teach your children, sewing on a button!
This might sound mundane to you, but I promise once you have sewn on a button that has fallen off back onto a beloved garment, you will feel so accomplished!
That was my experience as a child as well as many of my children’s.
The Importance Of The Mundane
But isn’t the mundane the creator of the most special things? After all cooking meals can feel mundane as well as laundry. But it is at dinner meal times where we talk and laugh while being connected through delicious and wholesome food. But it leads to so much more. Our children feel our love without needing words.
Laundry is not so obviously a special thing that comes from the mundane as meal times, but think how dirty we would be and all that follows it. Despite some of my children’s protest in being clean, it does feel so good to climb into bed with clean sheets, and to change dirty wet socks for clean ones. Clean laundry is a daily task for many of us but it let’s our children know that they are cared for.
A lost button, or a new creation is not mundane any more than making and sharing meals together, or enjoying clean socks, it is an accomplishment that makes life a wee bit better.
Something I loved about homeschooling was watching my children learn and accomplish new skills and be excited about life! Believe it or not, sewing on a button is an accomplishment your children will be proud of!
For your little ones you must read Frog Loses A Button Story. Then your children will know the importance of a button! Find the book here or listen to it for free here.
The Different Kinds of Buttons
There are 3 types of buttons. One has two holes, the other has four holes, and the last has a ring like loop on the back.
Sadly, and I know you will need a hankie for this news, I didn’t have a button with a ring behind it so I opted to teach you how to sew a button with 2 and 4 holes today. Use your hankie to dry your tears for this will not be neglected forever, some day I will teach you this important lesson also! 😉
How To Sew On A Button With 4 Holes
Begin by threading and knotting your needle. Learn how here.
Begin by pulling your needle from the back to the front. Stick your needle out the button right hole. It takes a bit of searching to find the hole.
Move your needle back down through the hole on the left.
Repeat.
I would repeat this at about four times.
Warning! Don’t pull to tightly or your button won’t fit in it’s button hole! As you sew check to be sure there is space between the button and the fabric behind it.
Repeat the process for the top two holes.
To knot, start at the back, wrap the thread around your needle 3 times. Pull through some stitches close by. Repeat once more to secure the knot. It is not fun the have thread come undone, even though it doesn’t take long to resew a button on.
How To Sew On A Button With 2 Holes
Thread and knot your needle. Learn how here.
Make sure your button will fit through the button hole if you are sewing a button back on.
The process is the exact same. Come up one side, and down the other about 4-5 times.
Conveniently, we knot the exact same way as before.
Of course the warning about not sewing the button to tightly is the same for the two holed button as it is for the four holed button.
Button Game
Just for fun I am going to share with you a very cute old fashioned button game that my mom played 7 decades ago. All you need are children and a button though a small object can take the place of a button, in case all of your buttons have gone walk about.
Learn how to play the game here!
Sew On A Button For Homeschoolers
You have no more need for tears when a button falls off! You have learned how to sew a button – for beginners, learning the two easiest kind of buttons to sew on. You had an easy, done for you handicraft lesson as well! Can life get better than this?
Yes!
As your children learn hand sewing skills they can make clothes, costumes, curtains for their own room make over, bread bags to keep the homemade fresh bread, toys, book bags, and so much more!
But how can your child learn these skills?
Like every journey it begins with a single step. The first step is learning the basic 5 stitches that leads to all the magical hand sewing projects for kids.
Not only do you learn the basic stitches, but once you are done learning these basic hand sewing stitches, you practice them using a fabulous and adorable sampler! Cute right?
Again if you want your children to start this journey click here!
See you next time!
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