Do kids still sort buttons? As a child, I too, was a button-sorter. My grandfather was a woodworker and he made a miniature dresser where my mother kept her buttons. A rainy, not-feeling-too-well day was always made better by dumping all the drawers and refilling them by that day's criteria. Today, I have that dresser with many of the buttons that I used to play with still in it, but nowadays it collects mostly dust.