Math:

• Use the buttons as counters to help with addition and subtraction.
  
  
• See how many different ways there are to categorize and sort the buttons (size, shape, color, use, etc.). Stretch your imagination!
  
  
• Make pattern lines with the buttons. How many possibilities are there?

Language Arts:

• Tell or write the story of one of the buttons in the box. How did it get there? Where did it come from?
  
  
• Write an Ode to buttons.
  
  
• See how many adjectives you can find to describe the buttons. Add the adjectives to a word journal!

Social Studies/History:

• Research the history of buttons? When was the first one made?
  
  
• Find out where sayings like "Right on the Button" and "Button Up" came from. If you can find the REAL answers, write a fable of your own to tell how these sayings came to be!
  
  
• We use the word BUTTON to describe many things. Make a list of the types of buttons!

Science

• Do buttons float or sink? Fill up a glass of water and test your guess?

Art:

• Use the buttons as part of an art project. You could use small buttons as eyes. You could glue the buttons on a drawing for the buttons on a shirt. What else can you do?
  
  
• String several buttons on a piece of thread to make a necklace.