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WDW Prep School → Planning and Tips → Projects and Downloadables → Featured → Build your own Disney theme park-style buttons
  • Shannon Albert
  • September 13, 2013
  • June 24, 2019
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When you go to a Disney theme park, you can get a few buttons for free from the resorts and guest services.

There are options for people on their 1st visit, celebrating a birthday, just married, etc.

But what if you’re celebrating something else?

I’ve got templates in Microsoft Word, Photoshop and Gimp to help you build your own.

Let’s take a look…

Available at the theme parks:

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And now you can use the ones that I’ve designed to build your own.

Here are the components of each design. You’ll use each piece to build your own button. I’ve provided some images of each of these elements and you can also make your own.

In this article (click for table of contents)

  • Piece #1 – the background circle
  • Piece #2 – the outer ring
  • Piece #3 – the character, symbol or sign
  • Piece #4 – the bottom button section
  • Piece #5 – add some text
  • The final product
  • Programs to use
  • The buttons

Piece #1 – the background circle

The background of the button is a texture or pattern that shows behind the “window” at the top of each button. Here are the ones I’ve included:

bluecircle castlecircle confetticircle movementlinescircle

pinstripescircle redwhitestripecircle sunrayscircle turquoisecircle watercircle

Piece #2 – the outer ring

Now let’s layer a ring on top of our circle to form the outer boundary of the button.

blackring darkredring greenring multicoloredring

orangering purplering royalbluering starsring

turquoisering yellowring

Piece #3 – the character, symbol or sign

This is the layer that appears at the top of the button. Most of my examples are characters but it could be whatever you want. Insert this layer and have it overlap the outer ring a bit to give a bit of a 3D effect.

arielflounder graduatemickey graduationcap groupofcharacters

mickeyrunner mickeysalute relaxedmickey starofdavid

thumbsup wdwsign

Piece #4 – the bottom button section

Now it’s time to lay the bottom button on top of the other layers (it’ll often overlap the character or symbol as well).

blackbuttonbottom greenbuttonbottom greybuttonbottom lightbluebuttonbottom

orangebuttonbottom purplebuttonbottom redbuttonbottom royalbluebuttonbottom

turquoisebuttonbottom yellowbuttonbottom

Piece #5 – add some text

The last piece is the text layer which says what you’re celebrating.

The final product

plussignplussignplussignequalsarielbutton

Programs to use

Now that you know the pieces that go into each button, I’ve provided files in 3 formats – Microsoft Word, Gimp and Photoshop.

Microsoft Word
This version has the Word document with all of the buttons already created for a 2 1/2 inch button. You may have to adjust according to whatever button size you’re using.

Included in this zip file: Word document, Mouser font (install before opening the Word document), folder of circle images, folder of outer rings and a folder of the bottom button sections.

Download the Word version

Photoshop
This version has the Photoshop file which contains all of the elements in layers, plus the Mouser font which you should install.

Download the Photoshop version

Gimp
This has the Gimp file and Mouser font. Be sure to install the font before using the file. (Note: the text doesn’t work along a path in this document because I couldn’t get it to work for some reason. If you can figure it out, let me know and I’ll update this file with the text working along a path.)

Download the Gimp version

The buttons

You can pick up button kits at craft stores like Michael’s and online on Amazon.com. I’ve seen them in 2.25 inch, 2.5 inch and 2.75 inch sizes.

buttons

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35 Comments

  1. emma April 12, 2018 Reply

    oh my these are so useful! thank you for the fab help! i is there anymore colour rings available on the net id love a pink

  2. Ally June 16, 2017 Reply

    I love these and have an upcoming trip and would love to make some!! But I am wondering how people get the mickey head icons in the outer ring?? Can anybody help me?

  3. Catherine September 18, 2016 Reply

    My daughter is competing in a soccer tournament at WDW over Thanksgiving. Any chance you could add a soccer Mickey?

  4. Melinda July 27, 2016 Reply

    I don’t understand how to do it. I’m sorry I’m not very tech-savy but we are going to Disney in Sept and I’d love to be able to make these for our trip! Can you possibly help me?

  5. Jasmine May 7, 2016 Reply

    You’re a life saver! Love this post! What font for the buttons!!!

  6. Brooke February 3, 2016 Reply

    is it possible that you add another button sheet for download?? Or some more characters?? We all love the designs

  7. Simone February 2, 2016 Reply

    How do I get the font in the bottom??? I downloaded the word version

  8. Jamie December 1, 2015 Reply

    Thank you SO much for these amazing templates! I wanted to make buttons for my little sister’s graduation and your generosity saved me so much time (and it looks SO much better!).

  9. Joe April 20, 2015 Reply

    These are great templates that took a lot of work. Thanks for sharing them.

    I have already thought of a bunch of new button ideas based on your templates.

    Thanks again.

  10. Maria Santos March 23, 2015 Reply

    These are awesome! Thanks for putting this together. By chance, have you added new characters that we can use?

  11. Addie March 6, 2015 Reply

    The font doesn’t include apostrophes. Also, the [ ] brackets come out as the { } brackets, and when you type the { } brackets, there’s nothing. Also, no ^ or ”
    BASICALLY there are important symbols missing. No apostrophes or quotation marks.

    • Addie March 17, 2015

      I found a different font that’s nearly identical that has what’s missing from mouser. It’s called Kabel. Just wanted to share incase anyone else wanted to know.

  12. Amber Wilson January 22, 2015 Reply

    How do you make the shape for the bottom of the button I have downloaded the template but I want to change the colors and can’t figure out how to do it!

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