The expanses of creativity have no end and edge. Even the most ordinary applications can be issued in the form of extraordinary skillful work. Of which only children are not offered to do their work, because there are many materials. In creative classes, children can be offered an application of cotton wool. Children will be happy to complete the task, you only need to preliminarily discuss the technique and procedure for completing the work.
Vata as a material for creativity with kids
An application of cotton wool is a great way to make various postcards or embossed soft pictures. To perform such work, in addition to cotton, you can use cotton pads, which in many cases greatly facilitate the work. Young children will be delighted with the implementation of the simplest applications in the form of a caterpillar, flower or snowman.
Vata - this is such material that contributes to the development of fine motor skills of the child and tactile sensations. In addition, it can be painted in different colors, due to which the area for experiments becomes even more extensive.
Moreover, you can search for colored cotton wool and use it in work with cotton buds. This creates a wonderful applique of cotton in the form of flowers. Pink cotton can be used as petals, yellow - as a core, and a wonderful stamen will turn out from a cotton swab.
In addition, for application use not only cotton wool with paints, but also other materials at hand. For the manufacture of crafts suitable for various types of cereals, paper for scrapbooking, sequins, ribbons and much more that is at hand.
Ideas for Wool Appliques
From cotton, you can perform a large number of a variety of crafts:
- “Winter” wool application - you can make a snow-covered picture, on which the house is represented with pencils or paints, but the snow-covered roof, clouds and snowflakes need to be made of cotton. Additionally, you can depict a snowman in the picture, the easiest way to arrange it is with cotton pads.
- Small fluffy chickens are made from cotton pads painted in yellow, eyes and beaks are made of paper and also glued to the applique.
- Fluffy and curly poodle dog is very easy to do. First, small spools are rolled up from the cotton wool and pasted with an animal drawn on paper in advance. The mane and tail can be made of cotton wool in the form of brushes. In the same way, an application of cotton wool for children in the form of a lamb is made from spools.
- Willow - this early flowering shrub with fluffy buds is quite simple to make. A tree with branches is drawn with felt-tip pen on paper, and cotton oblong spools are used as buds.
Application "Snowman" made of cotton
Even a young child can make a cute snowman out of cotton. Such an application can be used in the manufacture of New Year's cards. And what could be better on New Year's Eve than a souvenir made by a child.
For work you will need colored cardboard or thick paper, cotton pads, cotton wool, threads for knitting light shades, sequins, felt-tip pens, glue and scissors.
Step-by-step instruction
To begin with, five circles of different sizes need to be prepared from cotton pads: three will go to make the body and two identical circles for pens.
Next, a sheet of cardboard or thick paper of blue or blue color is cut (folded) in half. After that, in the middle, it is necessary to glue the snowman with the PVA glue from the cotton pads that were prepared earlier. From below, with the help of cotton wool or light threads for knitting, you need to make an imitation of snow. The moon from the cotton pad is also glued with PVA. As snowflakes use sparkles. Broom, hat, buttons, mouth, nose and eyes are finished with felt-tip pens.
All these small details can be made more spectacular. Suppose you can use sequins to make buttons, black beads are suitable for making an eye, and a bucket on your head can be cut out of colored paper.
Cotton Swab Appliques
On long winter evenings with children, you can craft a wide variety of crafts. At the same time, any materials are useful for work, and cotton buds are no exception.
Applications are the easiest way to use cotton buds. Such work is within the reach of the smallest children. In addition to sticks, for creativity you will need PVA or polymer glue.
To make a beautiful craft, just fix the cotton buds on paper in a certain order. Thus, a variety of beautiful pictures are obtained.
Snowflakes are very beautiful, glass pebbles, which are used as a center, will help to make them more original. No less original are flowers made from cotton buds. The core can be made from a lump of cotton wool, and as a stalk use a wire wrapped with threads for knitting green. Such flowers make wonderful compositions that will be an excellent basis for a greeting card.
Applications are one of the simplest and at the same time the most effective in the development of types of creativity. Application of cotton wool will help to develop not only artistic abilities, motor skills of hands, but also to diversify the tactile sensations of kids.