Any hand-made craft looks very original and unusual. She keeps the warmth of the author’s soul. Hand-made style is popular in various areas of creative activity. If you need new ideas for souvenirs, for example, a gift for mom or girlfriend by March 8, use the recommendations below. Make a flower out of cotton pads. It looks unusual and at the same time beautiful and stylish.
Tools and materials
To create such a gift you will not need something special and expensive. Perhaps you have everything you need at home, you just don’t know how it can be used for decorative purposes.
Look at the photo. Flowers from cotton pads (calla lilies, roses) look so natural that they can become a worthy decoration of the room. To make them, you need the following:
- cotton pads and sticks;
- paints, brushes;
- scissors;
- glue;
- starch;
- plasticine;
- threads
- wire;
- tapes;
- beads or other decor (peas, beans);
- paper, cardboard;
- fabric leaves (optional).
In fact, this is the maximum list, and what will be needed in your case is determined by the type of the craft itself, its complexity and method of manufacture.
Work principles
You can make one flower or a whole composition of cotton pads with your own hands: an applique or a voluminous bouquet. The source material is used white or stained in any color, drawing veins on the petals and making transitions of several shades.
The middle of the flowers and the stalks are made of cotton buds dipped in paint. Also use beads and wire frame. To give the green shade to the stalk, wrapping in colored stripes, applying plasticine are used. Leaves can be cut from cotton pads, fabric, satin ribbons, made from salt dough, polymer clay, or taken ready-made from artificial flowers.
Using cotton pads is quite simple. They can be bent, folded, cut the desired shape. Before starting the process, the material can be processed in starch. To connect the parts of the flower, its elements, use threads, wire, thermal gun or PVA glue.
Cotton pad application : flowers
(children's creativity)
This option is suitable as an activity for making a gift for mom. Guys can perform daisies, snowdrops or just abstract flowers.
The work will consist of the following:
- Take the base (color cardboard, paper, plastic). It is better to draw the contours of the future bouquet on it.
- Make leaves and stems from plasticine.
- To make snowdrop petals, it is better to make a stencil from cardboard and cut out the required number of colors from cotton pads. So, they will all be the same and neat. Chamomile is even easier to perform. Enough cuts in a circle of cotton pad.
- The middle can be made of a cotton swab, the head of which is painted with gouache, and the base is coated with plasticine. The same can be done with beads and wire.
- In a cotton pad of petals, make a slot for a cotton swab and insert it there.
- Collect all the elements based on. As a decor, create a pot or vase in the form of an application of beans, beads, sequins, plasticine.
Original craft: flowers made of cotton pads
Older children can easily cope with the voluminous composition. They know a greater number of flowers and will be able to make the petals of complex shape. In such a bouquet of cotton pads can be:
- calla lilies;
- poppies;
- daffodils;
- roses;
- viola (pansies);
- lilies.
You can make a bouquet of one type or combine several. For volumetric crafts, you need a vase or a pot. It is easy to make using the papier-mâché technique or using an unnecessary container, for example, a cream jar. All other operating principles are consistent with those presented above.
Calla
This cotton bud flower is made as follows:
- Color the cotton bud in yellow.
- Collapse a white circle in the shape of a flower. You can pre-cut it by sharpening.
- Connect the stick to the workpiece from the disk. With the help of threads or wire fasten them together.
- Wrap the stalk with a green ribbon or coat with plasticine.
- Leaves and decor do as you wish.
Roses
Craft "cotton bud flowers" can look very natural. The main thing is to try to imitate the shape of the petals of the selected plant.
Naturalness gives a corresponding shade. For roses, unpainted cotton pads are also suitable. It will take more time, patience and the blanks themselves. In this case, it is better to connect them with a thermogun. Sepals can be made from fabric, thin decorative paper or satin ribbons.
Pansies
To make such a flower from cotton pads, you will first need to color them in the appropriate colors. Take samples with realistic images as samples. To create a form, you will have to trim the material. This is best done after joining the petals into the workpiece.
Daffodils
This cotton pad flower looks very beautiful and natural. To make it, you will need several white circles, a sample of a photorealistic image, long strips of green paper to create leaves. Plasticine in this case is not suitable. It will be difficult to make a lanceolate elongated three-dimensional form of small thickness from it.
Topiary
This is another original and fashionable souvenir that can be made from cotton pads. It is a ball on a stick in a pot and imitates the shape of a decoratively trimmed dwarf tree. A ball, a sphere made of papier-mâché, is taken as the basis. Flowers made from cotton pads stick to it. They can be made by simply twisting the white circles in the form of cones, connecting a few pieces or taking calla as a sample, but not from one disk, but from several folded one on top of the other.
Another option is to make a lot of roses and stick them on the surface of the ball. Discs can be pre-painted. Choose additional decor as you wish.
As you can see, it’s easy to make beautiful flowers from regular cotton pads. Such an activity can be a great option for children's creativity or a family hobby. Try to make any option you like. You will definitely be satisfied with the result of your work.