The Button Blog - American Button Machines — Uses for Buttons
Button Making Ideas From ABM - What Can I Use a Neo Magnet For?
What can I use a neodymium (neo) magnet for? How can I up my button game with these magical little magnets? MagTags are super strong neodymium magnets that despite their compact size pack a hugely powerful punch that makes them perfect for tons of applications. You can turn every day items into interchangeable, button-tastic treasures quickly and easily and ABM is here with great ideas to help get the creative ball rolling! First up, who doesn't love to add a personal touch with things that make you smile around your office or workspace? Not a lot of room to set...
Button Making Ideas from ABM - Make Money On the Mid-Terms!
Campaign buttons are a staple of the button making business and every couple of years the opportunity rolls around to not only help get the message out there to vote but to make money doing it! That's right, it's your time to shine and make some money from the Mid-Term mania! We all have candidates in our communities that could benefit from a little name promotion to help with recognition on the ballot. Maybe they just want to be sure you know what they stand for when you enter the voting booth. Yard signs and billboards are great but nothing...
Button Making Ideas From ABM - ABC's and 123's Made Fun
ABC's and 123's are essential core skills that are the foundational building blocks of any good education. Finding ways to make learning these essentials entertaining can be a challenge but with the help of ABM's new downloadable sets, it just became much easier! As anyone who has ever worked with teaching letters can attest, word association with letters and sounds is vital to success. ABM's ready to use alphabet set includes upper and lowercase images of the letters in bright colors accompanied by whimsical animals whose name matches the letter for easy association. For even more fun, there's our ready...
Button Making Ideas from ABM - Using Buttons to Educate and Entertain
Buttons are great for so many things and some of the best are when they're being used to not only entertain but to educate our young people! Many of us are spending much more time at home and indoors these days and finding engaging entertainment that doesn't include a video screen can be a challenge. If you're searching for ideas, Team ABM is coming to the rescue! All you need for an afternoon of f-u-n is a button making kit from ABM, a box of crayons or colored pencils and paper circles. You can even make it super easy and order...
Mask Tags - Make a Statement, Stay Safe
Masks have become a part of our daily lives and if you're like most who wear them daily, you are probably amassing quite a collection in the search for something that passes for cute. Masks are the new "must have" accessory of 2020 and we're all looking for a way to make them as fun as possible and yes, dare we say, even a little bit fashionable. As advocates of safety, Team ABM does our part by wearing masks daily so it has become a mission of ours to find a way to help them express our personality and match our wardrobes with a bit...