Crafts 101

I’ve never been a super arts-y and crafts-y kind of guy. I remember back in elementary school, my art teacher had an “artist of the week.” She would choose one student’s art each week and display it in the main lobby of the school. The student would get some kind of cool certificate and a piece of candy.

In my six years there (kindergarten through 5th grade), no candy nor certificate for awesome art came my way.

It was time for redemption.

Those elementary school art days came rushing back to me a few weeks ago when my arts and crafts skills were once again put to the test. One of the movies we’ve been filming for ChristianScience on YouTube calls for 12 “boring buttons.”

What’s a boring button? Good question. I had no clue.

My coworker, Liz, and I brainstormed. She envisioned the Staples “That was easy” button. I caught her drift, but was unsure how I could manufacture such buttons with limited electrical engineering skills. Oh, and I don’t have access to a plastic mold and any budget.

We had to take it down a few levels. How about foam board! Of course.

So, my wife and I went to Target and got two colors of foam board (black and white), a carpenter knife, and glue. We came back to the apartment and played arts and crafts (see pictures), printed off some labels that say “boring,” and ingeniously engineered a perfectly functioning boring button.





What you say, it’s just foamy board and glue? No, through the magic of editing this button will come to life!

Now, where’s my certificate and candy...?

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