Interesting material for needlework is offered to your attention. It is inexpensive, but what amazing crafts from cotton pads are obtained as a result! Cotton pads are a unique and fertile material. You can make various flowers, topiary, decorations for Easter, New Year from them. Such a gift, made with your own hands, with love, will remind you for a long time of the wonderful attitude of the donor.
DIY cotton pad topiary
Isn't such a bouquet a great decoration and present? It looks gentle and graceful, and is made of the most ordinary objects. Here's what was used in the work:
- 50 pieces of cotton pads;
- hot glue;
- beads;
- a jar of cotton swabs;
- 1 meter of green satin ribbon 5 cm wide;
- brown ribbon - 5 cm wide, and the length is equal to two girths of the jar;
- polyurethane foam;
- pins, needle, thread.
We begin to make flowers from cotton pads. After all, they are the basis of the composition. For one rose you will need 2 cotton pads and a bead.
Take the first one, roll it up into a bag. Attach the second to it and wrap around the first.
Here's what you should get for now.
Secure the bud with thread using a needle, then thread it from the bottom and point upwards to pin a bead onto the tip of the needle.
Initially, do not make a knot on the thread - it will not give reliable fixation, since cotton wool is soft. When you pass the bead inside the bud, then cut the thread and tie its tip to the one on which you did not make a knot. For such a craft from cotton pads, with your own hands or with the assistance of an assistant, you need to make 25 roses. Let some be beaded, others not.
Now you need to make the leaves. For the first, cut a strip 10 cm long from the green tape, wrap its right and left corners down so that the wrong side is at the top.
To make the craft from cotton pads further, sew along the edge of this blank, and then turn it out onto the front side and gather on a thread to give the ribbon the shape of a leaf.
Flowers from cotton pads should be placed in a beautiful container. To make it, fill an empty cotton swab jar with polyurethane foam. When it swells and dries, cut off the excess at the top.
Decorate the outside of the container with a brown satin ribbon. It can be pulled tight and sewn on the side or glued to the jar.
Spreading evenly, pin the leaves with pins to the outer circle of the foam.
Smear the flowers from the discs with hot glue, start attaching them from the lower tier, moving upward.
It remains to decorate the jar with a thin satin ribbon, tying a bow and you can enjoy the work done to your heart's content, what a wonderful topiary you made with your own hands. It can also be made from cotton swabs. This is also a fertile material for creativity. It's fun and easy to create, so even a child can handle the task.
Children's fake from cotton swabs for the competition
If you asked yourself this question, now you can quickly solve it. Such unfading flowers made from cotton swabs will surely be awarded at the competition.
Here are the materials and equipment you need to work:
- cotton buds;
- floristic ball;
- scissors;
- dye;
- wire;
- ribbon.
Have the child cut all the cotton swabs in half. If it is not easy for him to do it himself, then adults will help. Now each obtained workpiece must be stuck into a foam ball so that the area with cotton wool is outside.
In this way, you need to arrange all the cotton swabs. Next, dilute the paint with a little water. Dip a cotton swab flower into it.
To avoid getting your hands dirty, use rubber gloves. You can first pierce the flower with a stem and, holding by it, dip it into the paint.
As a stem, you can use a wooden stick (skewer or from sushi), then it must first be painted green. There is another option - to wind green electrical tape or floral tape around the wire and use this stem.
Such flowers from cotton swabs can be brought not only to contests of children's crafts, but also to decorate your home, office, store with them.
If you do not have a floral ball, have your child replace it with plasticine, from which you need to mold a round blank. In this case, it is better to paint the halves of the cotton swabs first, and then stick them into the plasticine ball.
Other cotton swab products
See what else you can make for kids craft contests using the same material.
Cotton buds form the backbone of this adorable panda.
To create it, you will need the following:
- cardboard;
- black and white paper;
- cotton buds;
- white plasticine;
- glue;
- black paint.
From cardboard you need to cut a panda with a round head and body, two ears and four paws. Attach this blank to black paper, outline, cut; and from the white sheet - the inner part of the ears.
Glue the black blank onto the cardboard, and the white one for the ears in its place. Cut out the claws from paper of the same color, attach them to the paws with glue.
Have the child knead the clay and stick it on the panda's face. Now you need to cut off the cotton swabs and stick them into the plasticine. Decorate the work from the outer edge, gradually moving to the inner edge. The belly of the beast is decorated in the same way. To make the panda look like a real one, you first need to dip a few cotton swabs in black paint, use them to make spots of this color on its body.
The oval eyes are cut out of white paper. Draw on them pupils, edging and glue in place. But what other crafts from cotton wool can be made. This fluffy poodle is created using cardboard and the top of cotton swabs. Glue it as shown in the photo.
DIY volumetric paintings
Cotton buds give ideas for paintings.
For the first one needed:
- a sheet of cardboard;
- blue, green, brown paper;
- cotton buds;
- glue;
- yarn;
- small beads;
- scissors.
This kids' cotton swab craft begins by gluing green paper onto a piece of cardboard. Now you need to draw the sky in blue, cut it out and glue it at the top of the composition.
Next, have a child cut a house out of brown paper. To make the structure a log, we use cotton swabs. In place of the walls, we glue them horizontally, at the top they repeat the outlines of the roof. All that remains is to glue the windows, and a beautiful children's craft house is ready.
But the work is not yet complete. Two cotton swabs are folded together, the other 2 need to be cut in half - these will be the hands of the little man. Now you need to attach the parts to each other using yarn, at the same time shaping the top of the body in the form of a sweater, and at the bottom, like a skirt or pants.
Wrap more cotton on the tops of two sticks, let the face become more voluminous. Hair can be easily made from brown or yellow yarn. The glued strands of threads are made in the form of a tree, and yellow ones were used for the sun.
It remains to glue people from cotton swabs, decorate the work with beads, and the volumetric picture is ready.
On the second panel, the braid is laid out in the form of the sun, and people made of cotton swabs are glued between its rays.
Swans and flowers from cotton pads
This material is very malleable. It can be cut with scissors, painted, rolled, glued. Cotton pads easily turn into swans, chamomile.
Here's how to make such a big picture. Take a cotton pad, roll it up in the form of a bag, secure with a stippler. Make several of these petals, arrange them in a circle on the table, connecting them with a stippler. Cover one cotton pad with yellow paint, let it dry. Then glue this core to the center of the flower.
You can make daisies in another way.
To make flowers from cotton pads, which are in the photo on the left, you will need this:
- scissors;
- yellow and green paint;
- colored cardboard;
- glue;
- tweezers;
- cotton pads.
Take the first disc and cut the edges in a circle to indicate the petals. In this way, arrange other flowers as well. Glue them onto colored cardboard. Tear off a piece from a cotton pad, roll it into a ball. Make a few more of these cores, dip them in yellow paint diluted with water. Remove with tweezers, spread on the surface, let dry. Then glue these blanks in the center of the flowers from the discs.
Cut the stems from green colored paper, and the leaves from cotton pads. Cut them with scissors along the edges, paint. Let dry, stick in place.
If a child wants to make swans with his own hands, help him with this. Such work begins with the preparation of the necessary, namely:
- blue cardboard;
- white, green, brown, blue, yellow paper;
- red, black paint;
- cotton pads.
You will also need scissors to cut out the swan's head along with the neck and wings from the discs.
If only white cardboard is available, then you need to stick a sheet of blue paper on it, let it dry and you get a colored one. The lake is cut out of paper in a contrasting color so that it can be seen against a blue background. Glue it to the cardboard, and on top of the cotton pad is the body of the swan. Glue wings to it, head and neck. From brown paper you need to cut reeds, from green leaves and stems, glue them to the picture, as well as to the sun in the sky.
The waves can be cut out of blue paper or painted in that color. It remains to paint the eyes with black paint, and the beak with red paint, and a beautiful picture of cotton pads is ready.
From this material you can make such a picturesque poppy.
To do this, you will need:
- cotton pads;
- glue;
- gouache;
- green paper or tape tape;
- wire;
- brush.
For work, it is better to take thin cotton pads. Tape tape is an elastic tape. If there is starch in the house, use it, then the flower from the discs will have denser petals. Pour in 1 tbsp. l. starch in half a glass of cold water, stir. Boil a glass of water separately, pour in a thin stream, stirring, diluted starch, turn off the heat, cool. Soak 5 cotton pads in boiled starch, squeeze out a little, straighten, put to dry on an oilcloth.
After that, paint them with red gouache, when it dries, apply orange, white streaks. Now cut out the poppy petals from these dried blanks, glue them together, giving the shape of a flower. Make the stamens from a piece of cotton wool to be painted with black gouache.
Starting at the bottom, wrap green tape around the wire. In the middle of the stem, form a leaf out of tape or paper, continue to wrap the stem further, making another sheet. Glue this green twig to the poppy flower.
Christmas decorations from cotton pads
They can also be made from cotton pads. And this angel will decorate the room at any time of the year. Such crafts can be made with children in kindergarten.
The next master class with step-by-step photos will help you quickly understand the intricacies of the work. First, we give a list of things you need for needlework:
- cotton pads;
- beads;
- fishing line or thread;
- scissors;
- glue;
- stapler;
- thread with a needle;
- ring jewelry;
- rhinestones or sequins.
Have the child place the disc in front of him, place a bead in its center. Now you need to wrap the edges of the cotton blank up and wrap the section with the bead with thread or fishing line. Make the edging of this cotton pad wavy with scissors. This is the head and wings of an angel.
To make him a long robe, fold the disc in half, then divide it into 3 parts, and wind the two side ones back. Staple or sew. Glue the robe to the wings. It remains to decorate the angel with sequins, sew or glue a ring to the head, and the craft from the disks is ready.
Such an amazing wreath for the New Year is also made from this material. First, you need to prepare the foundation. This could be a large foam or rubber ring. If you do not have such, then fold several newspapers, gluing them to each other, give the desired shape.
When the workpiece is dry, glue the elements from the cotton pads. To make the first, roll up the disk in the form of a bag, wind the second, third on it. Thus, you get a rose, twisted with your own hands.
In the center of some flowers, you can glue a bead or sew it, as described above. Glue the roses to the base of the wreath, placing them close to each other. Fill the gaps with large beads, decorate the New Year's wreath with a large satin bow.
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