DIY Button Flower Learning Game for Kids

• 12 years ago

Signs of Spring are showing up everywhere! What better way to welcome Spring than with a bouquet of bright, colorful flowers? We made our bouquet with simple buttons and pipe cleaners, but took it a step further and made up a button flower game. It’s quick, easy, and lots of fun!

Here is what you’ll need:

• Pipe cleaners
• Buttons
• Die
• Cards with the button colors written on them

These are the rules:

• Place the cards face down in a pile
• Roll the die, the number you roll is the amount of cards you take
• Thread your buttons onto the pipe cleaner in the order you drew the cards
• Play until you run out of buttons!

Not only will you get a beautiful, unique bouquet of button flowers from playing this game, but your children will be practicing several important skills:

• Fine motor skills: threading the buttons onto the pipe cleaners is great for working those hand and finger muscles
• Sequencing: following the cards and putting the buttons on in order is great for learning what comes “first, second, third…”
• Colors: matching button colors to the card colors is fun and learning at the same time!
• Color words: having the color words written on the card helps with color word recognition
• Counting: rolling the die and counting the dots is great for learning numbers 1-6
• One to one correspondence: comes from choosing one card for every dot on the die

When you’re done with your bouquet why not make a few more and pop them into colorful pots to give to loved ones as gifts!