Make a Button Display for Your Dollhouse

Left, old stained finished frame with circular opening; very 1970s design. Center, the buttons we
will use for the button craft. Right, the finished frame and design for a 'groovy' 70s display.
We designed this button board for the bedroom of a American Girl doll like Julie.

       Try making a button board or brooch board for a doll wall decoration. Although young doll lovers may not have many brooches, they can just as easily use buttons or charms to make this craft. If you are an adult collector, this craft can be made to feature doll jewelry or tiny brooches you may have accumulated over the years in a unique way on a dollhouse wall or on a real wall near your doll displays. 

       The supplies that are needed for the child's dollhouse version of this craft are as follows: cardboard, glue gun and hot glue, a doll-sized dollhouse frame, fabric or decorative paper to cover the display background.

       If your collection is valuable, you will need foam or cotton batting to line the back of fabric for the frame display so that the value will not be diminished with a glue attachment. A valuable collection of brooches or buttons should be pinned onto the padded board. 

       Both the frame and the covered display board may reflect the time period of your collections. A Victorian guild frame with a velvet covered display panel will look entirely different from a retro frame of the 1970s with plastic buttons mounted on top of groovy wall paper. Choose the items that best reflect the style and time period of your dollhouse and/or collections.

 More Button or Brooch Boards:

• Laci Fay makes a vintage brooch board...
• The Glambassador makes her own brooch board for display
• Lady Rebecca displays her sparkles on an easy brooch board

1953 Bewtron button reproductions.

Revival Buttons by W. Williams & Sons, London

Wisconsin Pearl Button Ad.