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Cotton pads can be used not only for cosmetic purposes, but also to create beautiful applications and crafts.

They make beautiful christmas crafts and postcards, as well as original flowers - daisy, rose, lily other.

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2. Fold each cotton pad as shown in the image and use pins to attach each folded pad to the cone.

* If desired, the Christmas tree can be decorated with braid, garland, tinsel and other decorations.

Crafts from cotton pads to kindergarten: a postcard with a snowman

You will need:

2 cotton pads

colored paper

Scissors

Marker (if necessary)

Colored cardboard (for a postcard) or adhesive film (for decorating a window).

1. Using scissors, cut one cotton pad so that it is smaller than usual - this will be the snowman's head.

2. To make eyes and buttons, you can cut out two small circles from colored paper and glue them, or you can draw with a marker or buy small stickers that resemble eyes.

3. From colored paper, cut out a hat, scarf and nose (orange like a carrot).

4. Take a sheet of colored cardboard and fold it in half - this will be a blank for a postcard.

5. Glue both cotton pads to the workpiece. Glue the small disk a little over the large one.

6. Glue the hat, scarf and nose.

* To decorate the window with this snowman, use adhesive tape.

Crafts from cotton pads for children: application "Snowman"

You will need:

cotton pads

colored cardboard

Decoration elements ( colored paper, buttons, pompoms, ribbons).

1. Glue two cotton pads (one end over the other) to a sheet of colored cardboard - this is the body of your snowman.

2. Cut out a hat and buttons from colored paper and glue them on.

3. Make a scarf for the snowman from the ribbon.

DIY crafts from cotton pads: snowball

You will need:

cotton pads

Thread or ribbon.

1. Fold all the desired cotton pads into a quarter and add glue at the tip of the resulting shape.

2. Glue together 4 folded cotton pads. Glue only the tips, not the whole shapes. Let the glue dry.

3. Bend the glued parts so that you get half the ball.

4. Repeat steps 1-3 to make the second half of the balloon and glue both halves together.

* You can stick a ribbon or thread so that the ball can be hung.

Cotton pad flowers: daisy

You will need:

cotton pads

yellow watercolor

Colored cardboard or yellow felt (optional)

Scissors.

1. First you need to make the petals. To do this, take one cotton pad and twist it from the bottom, as shown in the image. Tie the twisted part with thread.

2. Make 8-10 similar petals and lay them in a circle to form a flower (see image).

3. Making the center of the flower. Take one cotton pad and paint it yellow and glue it to the petals. Or you can cut out a circle from colored paper or colored cardboard and glue it.

Such a flower can decorate any postcard or use it in an application.

Children's crafts from cotton pads with their own hands: an angel

You will need:

cotton pads

Sequins.

Crafts from cotton pads and sticks: lily flower

You will need:

cotton pads

Cotton swabs

Corrugated paper or colored paper (color: green)

Cocktail straws (preferably green)

Yellow marker or paint.

1. Take a piece of green crepe paper and cut out a leaf from it (see image).

2. Prepare one or more cotton swabs and dye one end yellow.

3. Paste cotton swab into the tube with the unpainted end down.

4. Wrap the cotton swab around the cotton pad as shown in the image.

5. Make 3 such blanks and wrap them with a leaf that you cut out of paper. Secure the flowers and leaf with transparent tape.

Crafts from cotton pads (photo): Christmas wreath

You will need:

styrofoam ring

cotton pads

Needles or pins.

1. Fold several cotton pads as shown in the image.

2. Use pins to attach all of the cotton pads to the foam ring.

Cotton pad roses

You will need:

cotton pads

Corrugated paper (color: green and brown)

Scissors

PVA glue

Foam sponge.

1. Apply PVA glue to the tip of the skewer, put a cotton pad on it, wrap it around the skewer and press it so that it sticks well.

2. Apply a little glue to the outside of the already glued disk, attach another disk to it and stick it.

3. To make a bud, you need to stick another 6-7 cotton pads in a checkerboard pattern.

4. To make green sepals, like a real rose, you need to cut out a figure resembling a fence from corrugated paper.

5. Apply PVA glue to the figure and wrap the bottom of the bud with it.

6. Now you need to make a stalk. To do this, you need to cut a long narrow strip of brown corrugated paper, apply glue to one end and wrap the skewer in a spiral. At the end, add glue to the tip of the strip to secure it.

7. We make a leaf. Draw a leaf shape on green crepe paper and cut it out. Glue this sheet to the stem.

Do-it-yourself application "Rainbow over the clouds" from cotton pads

You will need:

cotton pads

Paints and brush

Paper plate

Scissors.

1. Cut off a little more than half of the paper plate. You will use the most.

2. Draw rainbow colors on the plate. You can use different colors, shades and even draw something interesting. Let the paints dry.

3. Put a drop of glue on each cotton pad and start sticking them to your rainbow.

* You can attach the craft to the wall with double-sided tape, or attach a ribbon or rope and hang it.

It seems that needlewomen will stop at nothing on the way to new discoveries. So, today they use cotton pads to create hand-made crafts. Yes, ordinary discs that we are used to using for cosmetic purposes. And how beautiful do-it-yourself flowers from cotton pads turn out! Try it, and maybe you will discover a talent in yourself.

Improvised materials in applied art

What modern needlewomen do not do from cotton pads! It would seem that waste and absolutely nondescript material - what can be done from it? But looking at such a craft, it seems to us that this is some kind of magic, since ordinary cotton discs suddenly turned into an elegant bouquet or an original topiary.

Perhaps the simplest creative solutions are applications from cotton pads, because it is enough just to fix them with glue on paper. Such crafts are very fond of school children.

If you are still in a creative search and do not know what hobby you will like, try making crafts from cotton pads. Every hostess has everything that is necessary for modeling real masterpieces, so you can avoid additional financial costs for purchasing accessories.

Cotton pad topiary looks great. Firstly, they are simply modeled and change their shape, secondly, they are easy to attach, and thirdly, the discs can be painted or coated with a fixing varnish. The disadvantage of such crafts is only that over time they will lose their former whiteness and become gray.

Today we will learn how to design original crafts from this waste material. But before proceeding directly to creativity, let's study a few basic aspects of the work:

• You can purchase absolutely any cotton pads in texture. As a rule, these products are always bilateral.
• If you are modeling flowers from cotton pads, then you can fix the petals with glue, a stapler and threads.
• If you plan to seriously engage in this type of applied art, get a special glue gun. So it will be much more convenient for you to fix the flower petals on the frame.
• Bouquets are based on special floristic sticks or they are made independently from wire and satin ribbon.
• Ribbons, beads, beads, rhinestones, etc. are used to decorate bouquets of cotton pads.
• The base of the topiary can be made from foam or you can purchase a ready-made plastic ball.
• If your composition will "grow" in a pot, the earth can be replaced with coffee beans or nutshells.
• To prevent cotton pads from getting dirty so quickly, sprinkle them with regular hairspray.
• It is better to work with gloves, so as not to contaminate the material during the modeling process.
• Any pots can be used. Many housewives take as a basis an ordinary glass container, which is decorated with decoupage drawings.

Using cotton pads: a non-standard solution

Today we will try to make flowers from cotton pads with our own hands. The master class will clearly show you the creative process in stages. Such original bouquet of flowers can become a decoration of your interior. It can also be used to decorate wedding celebrations or give it to a loved one, because things created in the hand-made style are always appreciated.

This tutorial uses a satin ribbon to create the petals. But you can replace it with corrugated paper. Shall we start?

Necessary materials:

• 50-60 pcs. cotton pads;
• green satin ribbon;
• beads;
• needle;
• threads;
• pins;
• glue;
• the capacity is small;
• atlas beige colour;
• assembly foam.

Step by step description of the creative process:

1. So let's get everything ready. necessary materials. Now we can start creating our first author's masterpiece.
2. We take two cotton pads, a needle with a white or beige thread, one large bead.
   
3. We turn the first disk in the shape of a tube.
   
4. Now we take the second cotton pad and wrap it tightly around the made roller.
   
5. We should get a kind of bud.
   


6. There is no need to tie a knot as it can simply slip through the loose texture of the disk.
7. We turn the bud towards us in order to clearly see the bottom hole. Insert a needle and thread into it.
   
8. Gently pull the thread through the entire bud and bring it out in the center at the top.
9. Now we string a bead on the needle and pull the needle down, fixing the center of the flower.
   
10. We bend the bead with a thread at least once, but we do it so that it is not visible after attaching to the flower.
11. Now wrap the thread several times around the base of the bud, tie and cut.


12. It's time to green up our topiary. We take a green satin ribbon 50 mm wide. We measure 10 cm and cut several strips.
    
13. We bend the upper corners of the rectangle evenly to the center.
    
14. Holding the resulting triangle with your fingers, we make a seam along the bottom line.
15. We do not tie the thread into a knot, leave a small margin.
    
16. Pull the thread carefully. We should get such an original leaflet.
    
17. Now it remains only to collect our bouquet. We take a container and fill it with foam for installation work.
18. As soon as the filler dries, carefully cut off the protruding edge, making it as even as possible.
    
19. To make our pot look original, we wrap it satin ribbon beige colour. You can also color it acrylic paints or cover with paper.
20. Using needles with tips, we fix the petals around the entire circumference of the pot. If desired, they can be attached with hot glue.
    
21. Now fill the pot with flowers. Be sure to fix them with hot glue.
    
22. Alternately glue the layers of flowers to make the craft voluminous.
23. Don't forget to add some leaves on the surface.
    
24. Now we decorate the pot with a thin satin or lace ribbon and leave the craft to dry completely.

For many of us, cotton pads are a hygienic accessory for cosmetic care. And only a few have information about the possibility of their alternative use - in the form of improvised material for creativity. Cotton pads will help you create unique crafts that can take their rightful place in your home interior.

Creations from cotton pads will help diversify your child's childhood. Being an unconventional material for crafts, they have successfully established themselves in kindergartens and schools. With their help, simple things appear in a new, unusual perspective.

Christmas tree made of cotton pads

For the manufacture of Christmas tree, you will need to do the following:

1. First, a cardboard cone is made (a circle is drawn with a compass, then it is divided into 4 parts and 1 such part is cut off, after which the cardboard is folded into a cone with an acute angle at the top).
2. The cotton pad is first folded in half, then in half again. After that, the stapler fixes its folded position on the sharp side. Then the resulting halves are made manually voluminous. The same actions are performed with the rest of the cotton pads.
3. The blanks are attached with pins to cardboard cone.
4. To decorate the Christmas tree, you can use a garland, braid, tinsel and other materials.

How to make an angel and Christmas balls from cotton pads

To make crafts from cotton pads in the form of an angel, a cotton blank is taken, and a bead is placed in its center. Next, you need to wrap the edges in a cotton pad up, wrap the part with the bead with a thread or fishing line. The edging of the workpiece is made wavy with scissors. The result is wings and the head of an angel.

To make a long robe, the cotton blank is folded in half, and then it is divided into 3 parts, leading two side ones back, after which the blank is fixed or sewn in this position with a stapler. Next, the robe is glued to the wings. Then the angel is decorated with sequins, a ring is glued or sewn to his head. On this craft is ready.

For the manufacture of Christmas balls you should do the following:

1. Fold all the cotton pads into a quarter and add glue at the end of the resulting figure.
2. Glue together 4 blanks folded in this way. Only the ends should be glued, not the whole figures. Next, wait until the glue dries.
3. Bend the glued sections in such a way that a half of the ball is obtained.
4. Repeating the steps in paragraphs 1-3, make the second half of the ball, after which both parts are glued together.

In order to hang the ball, a ribbon or thread is glued to it.

Christmas wreath made of cotton pads

The sequence of actions in the manufacture of a Christmas wreath:

1. We are preparing the base. Would need big ring from foam. If there is no such ring, then you can make it yourself by simply folding a number of newspapers and gluing them together so as to create a ring shape.
2. Elements for a wreath can be done as follows: collect the first disk in the form of a bag, attach the second and third to it. In this way, you can make roses with your own hands from cotton pads.
3. Several flowers in the center need to be placed and glued on a bead.
4. Roses are glued next to each other on the base of the wreath.
5. If there are gaps, then they are filled with large beads.
6. We decorate the Christmas wreath with a satin ribbon or bow.

Topiary from cotton pads

Topiary is a product distinguished by tenderness and grace.

To make one topiary rose, you will need two cotton discs and one bead. First, one cotton pad is taken, twisted into a bag. Then a second cotton pad is applied to it and wrapped around.

The fastening of the bud is done with a thread using a needle. Next, the needle is threaded from below and goes up, and a bead is strung on its tip.

Initially, it is better to abandon the knot on the thread - this will not help to achieve good fixation due to the softness of the cotton wool. After threading the bead inside the bud, the thread is cut off, and its tip is connected to the one on which the knot was not made.

In total, you will need to make 25 roses from 50 cotton pads. In this case, one part can be made with beads, and the other without.

The next steps in this craft from cotton pads, you need to sew along the edge of this tape, and then turn it on the front side and collect on a thread to get the shape of a leaf.

The resulting flowers are placed in an attractive container. To get it, an empty jar of cotton buds is filled with polyurethane foam. After swelling and drying of the foam, the excess part is cut off from above. The outer side parts of the container are decorated with a satin ribbon. Brown(length - two girths of the jar, width - 5 cm). The tape is tightly stretched and sewn on the side or glued to the surface of the jar.

Leaves should be evenly distributed and pinned with pins to the outer circle of foam.

Flowers must be smeared with hot glue and glued to the jar, filling the lower tier first, and then the subsequent upwards.

Then the jar is decorated with a green satin ribbon (length - 1 m, width - 5 cm) - a bow is made. You can also use cotton swabs as a material.

Do-it-yourself flowers from cotton pads

roses

To create a rose, you will need to follow these steps:

1. Let's prepare the discs by painting them in a beautiful pink, coral, purple or lemon yellow color. First, prepare a bath with a solution of paint and immerse the discs in it for a few minutes, take out the products and dry them. With a brush with paint, paint over the pale areas. To make the petals of the future rose elastic, the disks are soaked in a starch solution and painted over with paint with a brush.
2. The disk is folded into a tube and the next petal-element is applied.
3. The petals are glued together with glue or sewn with a needle and thread. The degree of stuffing the bud with petals can be varied.
4. The flower is fixed on a wooden skewer with glue or thread.
5. The skewer is decorated with paper.

Daisies

You can make chamomile from cotton pads. There are 3 main ways to make this flower:

1. Prepare the disk, scissors and yellow paint. Cut the disk around the entire circumference, paint over the middle with a bright yellow color, or cut a circle out of paper of the same color and glue it in the middle.
2. Take the holder under balloon and stick cotton pads on it in the form of petals, 1 cotton pad - 1 petal. The core of the chamomile can be a yellow button or a circle cut out of bright lemon paper.
3. The discs are soaked in starch and dried. Graceful petals are formed by bending the edges of the cotton blank. The middle is cut out of dense matter or yellow felt and glued along the middle.

daisies

Daisy flower is done like this:

1. Petals are made for daisies. A cotton pad is taken, twisted Bottom part. In order for the petal to hold, this part is tied with a thread.
2. You will need about 10 such petals. Then these petals are laid out in a circle in the shape of a flower.
3. Next is the central part of the flower. The disk is painted yellow and only after that it is glued to the petals.
4. This flower can decorate a card with a wish.

callas

calla - attractive White flower with a yellow center. To make it, you will need:

1. Cut a cotton swab into two parts so that only a small part of it with a cotton head remains.
2. Paint this cotton part with yellow paint.
3. Wait until it is completely dry and insert into a straw.
4. The straw, in turn, should be wrapped in corrugated paper.
5. By gluing the edges on a cotton pad, form a flower.
6. Glue this flower to a straw.
7. Optionally, you can add a green leaf to the stem.

Other flowers are created in a similar way.

Crafts from cotton pads: beautiful birds

White Owl

To create the crafts "White Owl", you need to perform the following steps:

1. On a plain sheet white color draw the contours of an owl with a pencil.
2. Cut out the pattern and stick it on colored cardstock.
3. Cut out claws, beak and circles of eyes from black paper.
4. Cut out two more circles, but yellow color, with a slightly smaller diameter.
5. Cut feathers of the desired shape from a cotton blank.
6. Glue claws, beak, feathers and shaped eyes.
7. With a felt-tip pen, draw the outlines on the feathers.

Swan

It is also easy to make a Swan craft from cotton pads. This will require:

1. From colored paper, cut out a lake for a swan. If you only have white cardboard, then you can simply stick a piece of colored paper on it and leave it to dry to get colored cardboard.
2. Glue the lake onto cardboard. Place one cotton swab on it - this will be the body of our swan.
3. Cut out the neck, head and wings, glue to the body.
4. From brown paper, cut out reeds, and from green paper - leaves and stems for reeds.
5. Stick them on paper to the lake.
6. Draw, cut and glue the sun and sky.
7. Add waves if you like. To do this, they are drawn and cut out of blue paper. You can also draw them on the picture itself.
8. Draw the eyes of the swan with black paint. Paint the beak red.

Cotton pads have found their application in creativity. They can be cut into pieces, painted with any paints, markers or felt-tip pens, glued, changed shape - bent or folded. original crafts you can easily do it yourself, using cotton blanks and other available materials. A handmade gift will be able to remind you of its giver for a long period of time. Also creative needlework - great option children's leisure. All children will cope with the manufacture of various products from cotton material. Try it - it's interesting and exciting.

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Women's Day on March 8 is coming soon, and flowers from cotton pads will look very beautiful on postcards or in bouquets for mothers and grandmothers.

This material can be made different flowers: daisies, roses, callas, daffodils, snowdrops. It's great that you can make them with kids. different ages depending on the complexity of the implementation.

Do-it-yourself flowers from cotton pads step by step photos

For the manufacture of any flowers we need:

1. Cotton pads

2. Glue, scissors

3. Colored paper

4. Colored cardboard (if flowers for a postcard)

5. Wooden skewers or cocktail tubes (if flowers are on stalks for a bouquet)

Daisies from cotton pads with a photo

Daisies can be made in many ways:

Simplest:

♦ whole cotton pads are glued in a circle in the form of petals.

♦ Cut out a small circle from yellow paper and glue it in the middle.

Second way:

♦ Fold the cotton pad in half

♦ At regular intervals, we make cuts not completely.

♦ Unfold and glue a core of colored paper or a cotton pad painted yellow.

♦ And you can also cut out the same petals according to the template and also glue them in a circle.

More complicated way:

♦ We fold the cotton pad like this, gluing the curved edges. One flower requires 7 such petals.

♦ We glue them in a circle, in the middle - a yellow core.

Even one such flower looks very beautiful if you add a few more leaves to it.

Cotton pad roses

Roses can be made different in size and appearance.

Small roses are made like this:

♦ We cut a cotton pad in a spiral with scissors, and then twist it, starting from the outer tip, forming a rose. At the end, fix with a drop of glue.

You can make a lot of such roses and then form them into a bouquet on a sheet of colored cardboard by gluing the stems and leaves.

♦If a small rosette requires one cotton pad, then for a large one 5 or 7. First we twist one disk, and then glue two petals around it, opposite each other. Then two more. The more disks you glue, the bigger and more magnificent the rose will turn out.

More can be made callas from cotton pads. Cotton buds are good for the middle.

snowdrops for applique, simply cut out according to the pattern and glue, adding stems and leaves.

It’s not at all difficult to make flowers from cotton pads with your own hands, and step-by-step photos will help. So choose the ones you like and create with the children.
Such flowers can be used for postcards and bouquets not only on March 8, but also on any other holiday.

Good day to all. Since you are now reading my article, it means that you like to make various beautiful things with your own hands and you have come here for inspiration and new ideas. Well, what are we going to do? Today we will make roses from cotton pads.
For this we need:
- Cotton pads.
- Aluminum wire.
- Glue.
- Scissors.
- Green gouache.
- Brush.
- Hairspray.
Take the wire of the desired length and cotton pads. The length of the wire depends on how high you need the stem of the future flower. Cotton pads will need to be slightly torn, as shown in the photo. And wrap them around the wire. For reliability, we fix the ends of the cotton wool with glue. The stem is ready. If the stem turned out to be uneven in thickness, then there is nothing to worry about, because real flowers have irregular stems.

Let's put our stems aside for now. We take more cotton pads and cut leaves out of them. In fact, you can cut out the shape of the leaf at your discretion, I decided to cut out the simplest shape.

Now we paint the stems and leaves on both sides with green gouache. It is better to paint on a newspaper in order not to stain the table.

We leave to dry. As long as we have free time. You can make rosebuds. The flower can be collected on the stem, or separately, as it suits you. We take again cotton pads and glue. We roll the first disk with a tube and fix it with glue.

We take the second disk and glue it on top of the tube, without gluing the edges of the disk on top, then we will correct (straighten) them as needed. So we glue other disks until the rose reaches the desired size.

The bud is ready, you can stick it to the stem (if, of course, it is dry).

Then glue the leaves. You can glue the leaves along the entire trunk, but I wanted to glue them only at the bottom of the bud.

When the glue has dried well and all the details of the flower hold well, the flower is ready. From these roses you can create a beautiful flower arrangement that will decorate a room in your home.

As you can see, you can make flowers not only white. Using gouache, you can make flowers of any color. Yes, I almost forgot, I advise you to apply hair styling varnish to the painted places on the flower, thereby they will not be painted and the varnish will give them a little shine. Goodbye, see you again.