Their creation was inspired by the trouble-making Katzenjammer Kids. His arch-nemeses are the G and J Blockheads, a pair of silent antagonistic red humanoid figures with cube-shaped heads, one with the letter G on the block, the other with the letter J. His primary sidekick is Pokey, an anthropomorphic orange pony. The Gumby franchise follows Gumby's adventures through different environments and historical eras.

Upon his debut, in 1953, he immediately became a famous example of stop motion clay animation and an American cultural icon, spawning tributes, parodies, and merchandising. Gumby stars in two television series, Gumby: The Movie, and other media. The title character, Gumby, is a blocky green humanoid made of clay. If you love button projects, especially with kids, be sure to check out my book Button Mania before they are completely sold out! You can also check out my other button projects on this blog.Gumby is a cartoon character and associated media franchise created by Art Clokey. I hope you enjoyed making this button doll with me. You’re all done making a button doll! Now you can pose him however you like and you have a fun shelf sitter for your craft room, kitchen, office or a child’s bedroom. Use wire cutters to snip off all but 1-inch, then twist the excess and tuck it into the bead opening. Thread both of the arm wires through a small round wooden bead.īring the wire out the top of the bead and down each side then thread the wire back up through the bottom of the bead to secure it. Thread buttons onto the left and right wires for the arms we used 15 on each. You will now have two wires on the left and two on the right. Do this on both sides of the bead and pull the wire all the way through. Take the wires from the top of the bead and thread them back down through the two buttons below. Separate the wires, one left, one right and two up.Īdd two buttons to the wire pointed up then add the large round bead. Thread buttons onto the wires, threading two wires through the same hole on the left, and two wires through the hole on the left. Separate the wires, two on the left and two on the right. Twist both wires together to connect the legs. Twist the wire a few times at the end of the last button. To make the legs, thread buttons onto the wire, putting each wire through a separate buttonhole.Īdd as many as you like, we stopped at 15. Twist the wire a few times to secure the bead.

Thread a small round bead onto one end of a wire.

24-gauge floral wire (64″, cut into two pieces)įold each piece of wire in half.

You can even make flared jeans by using larger buttons at the bottom and adding smaller buttons as you work your way up! If you like, you can use specific colors for the legs to make it look like your button doll is wearing pants. Some of the other crafts with buttons I’ve made include this button tree, my pretty button lamp and this colorful season inspired button wall art. Over the years I’ve only made one other doll, and that’s this dammit doll. But I have made several different button crafts, in fact, I wrote a book about it! All my books are marked WAY down on Amazon right now, so be sure to check them out! This particular button doll project comes from that book’s pages and I wanted to share it with you here. If you have a big stash of buttons, this button doll is a great way to use up some oddball colors! It’s an easy adult craft but it also great for developing and fine tuning dexterity in kids. You could use this button doll tutorial with a group of adults (a great project for seniors too) or with children.

I made this darling little button doll to hang out in my studio.

Free dammit doll pattern