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Button facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

A button can have three meanings.

Clothes button
Clothes button
  • A button is a fastener that keeps your shirt or pants closed.
  • A button is something that sticks up from a flat surface, and when you push it, it makes something happen.
  • A button is a picture on a computer monitor that is pressed with a computer mouse to make the computer do something.

Images for kids

  • Reserveknapper til Hans' uniform

    Brass buttons from the uniform of a Danish World War I artillery lieutenant

  • Three holes buttons

    Modern buttons made from vegetable ivory

  • Spanish button ca. 1650-75 12mm f&b

    Spanish button from ca. 1650-1675 (about 12 mm).

  • Button stamping machine, Henri Jamorski Button Factory, Paris, France, 1919 (28206559760)

    Button stamping machine, Henri Jamorski Button Factory, Paris, France, 1919

  • Plastic & fabric buttons showing holes & shank

    Three plastic sew-through buttons (left) and one shank, fabric-covered button (right)

  • ShirtStuds

    Shirt studs

  • Durchsteckknoepfe

    Plastic studs for bedclothes

  • Peter Carl Fabergé - Buttons - 1966.490 - Cleveland Museum of Art

    Peter Carl Fabergé buttons in the Cleveland Museum of Art

See also

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