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These Button and Felt Flowers are cute and easy to make. Use different colors of felt and buttons to make a mix-and-match bouquet.

Things you’ll need:
Small felt circles
Buttons
Pipe cleaners
Large craft needle

Things to do:
1. Cut out your small felt circle.
2. Use your crafting needle to poke two holes through the center of your felt circle.
3. String your pipe cleaner through one of the holes in your button.
4. String your pipe cleaner through one of the holes in your felt circle.
5. Take the end of your pipe cleaner and make a loop by turning it around and stringing it back through another hole in your button.
6. Continue to push the end of your pipe cleaner through the other hole in your felt circle.
7. Secure the felt circle and button by twisting the end of the pipe cleaner around the pipe cleaner stem” of your flower.
8. Place these flowers in a vase, glue to a card, or use with dolls for play time fun!

Butterfly Mobiles are a whimsical way to welcome spring. Add beads or other decorations to personalize your mobiles and hang them from your ceiling to watch them flutter and spin.

Things you’ll need:
Colorful paper
Butterfly template
Scissors
Embroidery floss
Decorative ring hooks

Things to do:
1. Use your butterfly template to trace and cut out your butterflies. Make sure to cut out two butterflies of the same color so that you have a matching front and back side for each butterfly. Make as many butterfly pairs as you like.
2. Remove the hook from your decorative ring hook.
3. Use your embroidery floss to tie a knot around your decorative ring.
4. Wrap your embroidery floss around your decorative ring by looping the floss around the ring, over your fingers, back through the ring, and then through the loop you just made with the floss wrapped around your fingers. Pull tightly and continue making these knots around your ring. Alternate floss colors as you like.
5. With extra embroidery floss hanging down from your decorative ring, line your matching butterfly pairs along the floss to measure placement.
6. Hot glue the back side of one half of your butterfly to the floss.
7. Continue gluing half of each butterfly along the floss until you reach the top.
8. Glue the other matching half of each butterfly on top of the other half.
9. Add the clip back onto your decorative ring and hang your butterfly mobile where you can admire it!