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With a button machine in the art room, the possibilities are endless! Ever since learning about how amazing it is to create buttons with students while at an art education conference, I've been in love with bringing this to my students. Throughout modern history, people have used buttons to show off images or words that are meaningful to them. Buttons are used to spread a message or inform an audience. Buttons are fun and simple, but display relevant information for viewers. You might have kept one on your backpack with your favorite cartoon character as a kid. You might keep one now on a blazer to show your alumnus status of a university you attended. Or you might keep one with a hand-drawn picture of your dog on your ID lanyard (like me!). I can use this machine to teach students that a small piece of wearable artwork can create change. We can spread our message by sharing buttons with family and family. While students may still be in their rooms for the majority of the day, I will still be bringing my art cart to each classroom once a week. Here, I can pin up students' finished buttons for others to see. I will set aside a few minutes at the end of class during clean up when students may admire and/or trade whatever buttons strike their fancy. Regardless of students working at school or at home, they are able to draw on circles easily and submit online for distribution. I can only imagine how amazing my students will feel to walk out of school one day and see their HAND DRAWN button on a younger student's jacket as they walk out to the buses.

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With a button machine in the art room, the possibilities are endless! Ever since learning about how amazing it is to create buttons with students while at an art education conference, I've been in love with bringing this to my students. Throughout modern history, people have used buttons to show off images or words that are meaningful to them. Buttons are used to spread a message or inform an audience. Buttons are fun and simple, but display relevant information for viewers. You might have kept one on your backpack with your favorite cartoon character as a kid. You might keep one now on a blazer to show your alumnus status of a university you attended. Or you might keep one with a hand-drawn picture of your dog on your ID lanyard (like me!). I can use this machine to teach students that a small piece of wearable artwork can create change. We can spread our message by sharing buttons with family and family. While students may still be in their rooms for the majority of the day, I will still be bringing my art cart to each classroom once a week. Here, I can pin up students' finished buttons for others to see. I will set aside a few minutes at the end of class during clean up when students may admire and/or trade whatever buttons strike their fancy. Regardless of students working at school or at home, they are able to draw on circles easily and submit online for distribution. I can only imagine how amazing my students will feel to walk out of school one day and see their HAND DRAWN button on a younger student's jacket as they walk out to the buses.

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