Do-it-yourself decorative items made of cotton wool can be an amazing masterpiece. In addition, they are so simple that even with a little control from adults, even a preschooler will cope with them. The article presents to your attention master classes that use a cotton pad.
Craft "Lamb"
Materials and necessary tools:
- hygienic cotton pads;
- multi-colored felt fabric;
- thin laces;
- cotton threads;
- sewing needles;
- stapler;
- scissors.
Cotton pads are best purchased in a large bundle, you can use the cheapest.
Execution technique
The cotton pad twice needs to be bent in half and fixed in this form with a stapler. Thus, prepare 15 blanks. String all cooked quarters on a strong white thread. Tighten the thread tightly, tie. Spread the discs to make a ball. Attach the laces, then the crafts can be suspended.
The lamb's muzzle is cut oval from felt. Bend the horns from the wire and sew them with threads from the inside of the muzzle. From the beads and beads, collect the ears and eyes of the ram.
Calla Pads
Cotton pads are a great material for creating flowers. For this craft you will need the following materials:
- several cotton pads;
- cotton buds;
- cocktail tubes;
- yellow marker, marker;
- fast setting adhesive.
Step-by-step instructions for making crafts:
- Flower preparation must be started from the middle; for this, one end of a cotton swab should be painted with a bright yellow marker (felt-tip pen).
- Insert the other end of the stick into the cocktail tube, the colored part should remain outside the tube.
- With a cotton pad, wrap the tube with the stick so that the yellow center peeks out of the petal, as in a real calla lily.
- Glue the petal gently. It is important that the glue does not appear anywhere and does not stain the flower, otherwise the craft will look messy.
- Thus, you can make several flowers and make a bouquet. It will be nice if you wrap it with a sheet of green corrugated paper.
- You can glue the bouquet on paper, you get an application. This technique will make the greeting card beautiful and original.
Cotton herringbone
Very often, cotton pads are used to create fabulous trees. DIY crafts are easy to do, you just need to be patient. For the manufacture of crafts require such materials:
- cotton pads - one or more packages, depending on what size the craft;
- not very thick cardboard, polypropylene possible;
- pins, glue.
A cotton pad is a malleable material that is easy to find in any store.
Stages of creation
If you use a cone made of polypropylene as the base, then each circle is folded and fixed on the base using ordinary tailor pins. Until the entire cone is full.
If you use cardboard as the basis, then you need to roll a cone out of it. Fasten with a stapler, cut off excess so that the cone can be put. Cotton circles are attached to the cardboard base with glue. But before that they need to be folded several times and fixed in this position with a thread. Christmas tree can be decorated with beads, sparkle.
Another master class on making a similar craft
Material base:
- cardboard cone;
- hygienic cotton pads;
- green paint - watercolor or gouache, diluted in water;
- shine;
- Super glue.
Execution technique
- Moisten each disk along the edge with diluted paint and dry.
- We attach stained blanks of cotton to the cone with superglue. It should begin at the base, complete the tip.
- Decorate the resulting craft with glitter, bows, beads.
Master class: crafts "Christmas tree" on a skewer
Materials:
- wooden skewer;
- cotton pad;
- mother of pearl bead.
Manufacturing technology
- Trim the cotton pads so that they get circles from larger to smaller, like a children's pyramid.
- String the blanks on a wooden skewer and fasten the bead on the top.
- Decorate the Christmas tree at your own discretion.
Craft from cotton pads "Angel"
How to make cotton pads are many, but it’s easier to buy them in a store. Here are the materials that will be required for this craft:
- several cotton pads;
- white threads;
- Super glue;
- pearl beads;
- scissors.
Master class of cotton pads
- Work begins by making the head. Divide the cotton pad into two. "Beat" cotton wool and roll into a ball.
- Put this lump in the middle of the other half of the disk. Wrap and secure with white thread. Thus we get a ball - this will be the head of the product.
- For the body, wrap the head of an angel in a cotton pad, as if swaddled, and glue it with glue.
- The next stage is the wings. To do this, fold the cotton pad in half and cut the edge in waves. Then cut this disk into two. The result is two wings.
- You can make other wings by cutting them with a stencil.
- Lubricate the back of the angel with glue and squeeze the wings.
- From two quarters of the cotton pad, curl two “little balls” and fix with glue. These will be the handles of an angel. Glue a bead into each bag. Fix the handles to the body with glue.
- Behind the back of an angel attach a loop of wire and bend in the form of a halo.
- Decorate the angel with beads.
Jewelry made of cotton pads looks very gentle and touching. They can be used as a decoration of your own home, as a gift or souvenir to relatives and friends. Especially such a gift will delight parents, grandparents, if the child makes them with their own hands.