How to make crafts from cotton pads with your own hands for the New Year. Crafts made from cotton wool and cotton pads

Cute roses, cute little animals, original topiaries are just some of the crafts invented and created by craftswomen from cotton pads and sticks.

They have long ceased to be just hygiene products. These are wonderful materials from which unforgettable creative masterpieces are created.

Using imagination, a simple white circle and a piece of plastic with cotton wool can easily be turned into a non-standard gift, a decorative composition for interior decoration, or a children's craft for a holiday. In addition, the cash costs for creating such things will be minimal.

How to make a Christmas tree

The simplest thing is to make some kind of New Year's toy from these materials. For example, a Christmas tree.

No special skills are required, but a minimum set of tools is required:

cotton pads (preferably with a relief pattern);
a cone made of thick paper or cardboard;
watercolor or acrylic paints;
decorative glitter;
brushes;
glue.

The number of disks required to make a Christmas tree depends on its height. If the tree is planned to be small, then one package is enough. Mugs with an embossed pattern will make the product more original, but ordinary ones will also do.

It is preferable to use watercolor paints. They look softer. PVA is most suitable as glue; it leaves no traces after drying.

So, the process of creating a New Year's masterpiece is as follows:

We glue a cone of the required height from thick paper or cardboard.
Using paints, we give the edges of each disk a soft blue tint.
Decorate with glitter glue and sparkles. It is better to apply paints with glitter only to half of the circle. Let the workpieces dry thoroughly.
We glue the painted discs over the entire height onto the cone.
The bottom of the product can also be painted and decorated with glitter. The Christmas tree is ready.

How to make flowers

An applique with snowdrops is quite easy to make. Due to the texture of the material, they seem soft, tender like spring.

To create a picture with spring flowers, you need the following materials:

cotton pads;
multi-colored cardboard;
green paper;
glue.

Several stages of the applique manufacturing process:

Flowers shaped like bells are cut out of the disk. These will be primroses. Several blanks can be made in the shape of an oval with pointed edges, similar to unopened buds.
Next, the blanks are glued onto a piece of colored cardboard. The color is optional.
Leaves and stems are cut out from colored paper. They are sticky. If you don’t want to cut it out of paper, then you can draw the leaves with a green pencil, paints, or a felt-tip pen.
At the bottom of the picture are pasted halves of cotton wool circles resembling snow.

How to create a topiary

A little more difficult, but more interesting to make from topiary. Topiary is a small sculptural tree. Various available materials are used as a crown. To create a topiary you need to prepare the following:

cotton pads;
small pot; you can use different containers you like: a mug, a jar;
a plastic ball or foam blank in the form of a circle; A piece of paper compressed into a ball is quite suitable;
satin ribbons, beads, rhinestones, and other decorative elements for decoration;
glue gun, PVA glue.

So, to make topiary, the following steps are performed:

Preparing the base for the crown. Any round shape will do, even a piece of paper.
We connect the crown to the trunk. As a trunk, you can use a plastic stick, a small branch, several wooden skewers tied together, or other elements resembling a trunk.
We prepare small flowers from the circles. You can shape them to look like roses or lilies. Roses are glued together with glue from several cut out petals. Flowers in the shape of a lily are prepared using a stapler (a cotton circle is folded into four parts and fastened with a staple in the corner), or simply twisted to form an open bud (fixed on the narrow side with white threads). If desired, the blanks can be painted in the color you like.
Glue all the prepared flowers to the ball. Of course, the ideal option would be a ball of absolutely even shape; gluing workpieces to it will be much easier. It is better to place flowers very close to each other, leaving no empty spaces. To make the crown look original, in addition to flowers, bows, ribbons, rhinestones, beads, and other decorative elements are glued to the ball.
Next, you need to prepare a pot or some other container-stand for the tree. Purchase a ready-made small plastic or ceramic flower pot. You can make a pot yourself from a jar by covering it with satin ribbons, lace, fabric, and beads.
After all the topiary elements are made, they are connected to each other. Crown with a trunk and then with a pot. To do this, gypsum diluted in water is poured into the pot. A trunk with a crown is inserted into the hardening composition. The barrel can be decorated with rhinestones, beads and other small details.

This topiary could well serve as an excellent holiday gift. Creating such masterpieces is not so difficult, and if you approach it with imagination, it is very exciting.

How to make calla lilies

Another easy-to-make element is the calla flower.

Here's how it happens:

We prepare the necessary tools and materials: disks, sticks, yellow felt-tip pen, marker, glue, scissors, cocktail straws.
We make stamens from sticks. We paint them on one side bright yellow.
We place the stamen in the middle of the disk, the painted side up, and glue the circle from below with glue so that the flower resembles a calla lily.
After the glue has dried, insert the unpainted part of the stick into the cocktail tube.

How to make roses

The roses turn out to be very beautiful. Here's what you'll need for this:

Prepare the circles, roll them one by one into tubes, put petals on top so that it resembles rose buds.
When the workpiece begins to resemble a rose, it is fixed, i.e. Sew all the petals together with thread.
A colored bead is sewn into the core of the bud to add originality.

If the rose was planned to be colored, before starting work, the discs are painted in the desired color. To do this, it is immersed in a container with acrylic paint diluted in water. The painted products are laid out and left to dry completely. Flowers made in this way are suitable for use as individual elements or for creating an applique or topiary crown.

Children's crafts from cotton pads

Cotton pads are an excellent material for working with children. With its help, not only fine motor skills and imagination develop, but also perseverance and logic are trained. Crafts created together with mother or in the kindergarten team develop communication skills.

In addition, the discs have an excellent universal shape and are very cheap in price. As practice shows, children really love making various pictures and applications. The main thing in creating a children's masterpiece is to let the child feel like a creator and show maximum imagination.

Caterpillar applique

One of the easiest crafts to make for children is the “Caterpillar” applique. For this you will need:

colored cardboard;
cotton pads;
ear sticks;
picture of an apple.

What to do:

You need to cut out a picture of an apple from a juice box. Paste it onto a rectangular sheet of colored painting.
Then the discs are painted with watercolors in the desired color. Circles of different diameters are cut out. They are glued to the apple, depicting a caterpillar. A smiling face is drawn on the largest circle in diameter. Curved ear sticks are attached to it (these will be horns).

Chicken applique

The “Chicken” applique is also easy to make. To do this you will need:

colored cardboard;
cotton pads;
gouache, brush, scissors;
a piece of plasticine;
black pencil or felt-tip pen.

The manufacturing process includes the following steps:

The cotton circle is painted bright yellow. Drying.
The yellow circle is glued to the cardboard base. A beak, scallop, and legs made of red and black plasticine are glued to the disk.
Eyes are drawn with a black felt-tip pen. You can use black beads for the eyes.

Owl applique

To make the “Owl” applique, do the following:

An owl is drawn on a piece of paper. A cut out image of a bird is glued onto a cardboard base.
Round eyes, beak, and claws are made from colored black paper.
For the eyes you need to cut out two more yellow circles, but smaller in diameter than the black ones. Instead of eyes, you can glue two yellow buttons.
Owl details are cut out of cotton pads. They are glued to the cut out outline.
Eyes, beak, claws are glued on.

How to make daisies

To create “Daisies” you will need:

cotton pads;
white threads;
watercolor or acrylic paints;
glue.

The creation process consists of the following stages:

We make 8-9 petals from the disks. To do this, we bend the edges so that the leaf resembles a cone. The side with the narrow edge is secured with thread.
Using threads, we form a circle from the resulting petals. In this case, the curved edges of the petals should be outward.
We create the middle of the flower from a yellow disk. To do this, we paint it, dry it and glue it.
Chamomile can be made in a single copy, or you can make a bouquet. Makes a great holiday gift.

What can be created from simple cotton wool?

In addition to cotton pads, children come up with crafts made from simple cotton wool. The safety and softness of such material will allow the child to work with it with pleasure.

For example, the “Poodle” picture is very easy to make. To do this, the following steps are taken:

On a rectangular sheet of colored cardboard (preferably a bright color) paste a contour cut out of white cardboard with the image of a dog.
Then very small balls are rolled out of cotton wool. Next, they are glued onto images of a poodle. It gives the impression of voluminous fur. The balls are not glued to the entire dog, but, like a poodle, to part of the head, tail, paws, and chest.

How to make a monkey

Another very popular material in creativity and handicrafts is cotton swabs. With their help, many interesting products have been created.

For example, a monkey made from this material looks very funny. It is done quite quickly:

An outline of the animal is cut out of white cardboard and glued onto another piece of rectangular contrasting cardboard.
Then it is necessary to prepare blanks from the base material. To do this, the tops of the sticks with pieces of cotton wool wound on them are cut off. The number of these blanks depends on the size of the contour.
The next step will be gluing the prepared blanks to the outline of the monkey. The sticks are glued in a circle and in a checkerboard pattern, covering the sharp edges with a new layer. This way the image will look more aesthetically pleasing.
The only place where they don't stick is the muzzle. Using a felt-tip pen, draw eyes, mouth, and nose on it.

Flowers made from cotton swabs

It is not at all difficult to make flowers from such material. For this, the following materials and tools are prepared:

foam blanks in the form of balls. They are sold in many craft departments;
skewers or wire for the stem;
glue;
paper for wrapping the stem;
paints, brushes, glue, stationery knife.

To make a flower, you need to do the following:

Using a utility knife, the foam ball is divided into two halves. If you leave the ball round, then the flower will be spherical.
Using paints (preferably acrylic) we give the half a beautiful bright color.
Using scissors, we divide the cotton swab in half to make petals.
For beauty, the resulting details are also painted in some bright contrasting color.
We stick the petals into half the ball and fix it with glue.
The flower stem is made of wire or a wooden skewer. It also sticks into the foam.
The stem is wrapped in corrugated paper. Leaves are prepared from it and attached to the stem.

Topiary made from cotton swabs

Topiary is made in a similar way:

It is necessary to prepare materials and tools: a foam blank in the form of a ball; wooden skewers or a branch for the trunk; cotton buds; paints; a small flower pot or other container for a stand; gypsum; various decorating elements (ribbons, beads, rhinestones).
Cotton swabs are divided in half with scissors and painted in the desired color.
Halves of sticks and a trunk of several tied wooden skewers or another branch are stuck into the ball. For reliability, it is better to attach all parts with glue.
The barrel is wrapped with corrugated paper and satin ribbons of a suitable color.
Gypsum diluted with water is poured into the pot. The trunk with the crown is fixed in it.
The pot is decorated with bows, small ribbons, decorative butterflies, ladybugs, beads, and rhinestones.

In addition, excellent appliqué pictures are made from such seemingly simple material. To do this, cut out the contours you like from cardboard and glue them to the base. Subsequently, this outline is pasted over in a checkerboard pattern with cotton swabs cut into halves. Thus, you can create pictures with sheep, bears, houses, flowers and everything that your imagination is capable of.

Making crafts from cotton pads and sticks is a great activity not only for children, but also for their mothers. This activity will allow you, without much difficulty or expense, to make an original item for room decoration, a non-standard gift for a birthday or other holiday. The main thing is to use your imagination, put your thoughts and soul into the creation process, and come up with another interesting idea for creating a masterpiece.

This angel will decorate the room at any time of the year. Such crafts can be made with children in kindergarten.

The following master class with step-by-step photos will help you quickly understand the intricacies of the work. First, here is a list of things needed for needlework:

cotton pads;
beads;
fishing line or thread;
glue;
stapler;
thread with needle;
jewelry ring;
rhinestones or sequins.

Have the child place the disk in front of him and place a bead in its center. Now you need to wrap the edges of the cotton blank up and wrap the area with the bead with thread or fishing line. Using scissors, make the edging of this cotton pad wavy. This turned out to be the head and wings of an angel.

To make his long robe, fold the disk in half, then divide it into 3 parts, bringing the two sides back. Secure with a stapler or sew. Glue the robe to the wings. All that remains is to decorate the angel with sequins, sew or glue a ring to the head, and the craft from disks is ready.

CHRISTMAS WREATH

Such an amazing wreath for the New Year is also made from this material. First you need to prepare the base. This can be a large ring made of foam or rubber. If you don't have these, then roll up several newspapers, gluing them to each other, and give them the desired shape.

When the workpiece is dry, glue the elements from cotton pads. To make the first one, roll the disk into a ball and wrap the second and third around it. Thus, you will get a rose, twisted with your own hands.
You can glue or sew a bead into the center of some flowers, as described above. Glue the roses to the wreath base, placing them close to each other. Fill the gaps with large beads, decorate the New Year's wreath with a large satin bow.

Detailed description of working with a wreath:

You will need:

Foam ring

Cotton pads

Needles or pins.

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

2. Using pins, attach all the cotton pads to the foam ring.

This is how many crafts can be made from cotton pads and sticks, including for children. The following videos will introduce you to other ideas:

Christmas tree

You will need:

Cotton pads

Stapler

Decorations (beads, star, braid)

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 for kindergarten: postcard with a snowman

You will need:

2 cotton pads

Colored paper

Scissors

Marker (if necessary)

Colored cardboard (for postcards) or adhesive film (for window decoration).

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 them 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 bend it in half - this will be a blank for the postcard.

5. Glue both cotton pads to the workpiece. Glue the small disk slightly on top of the large one.

6. Glue on the hat, scarf and nose.

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

Crafts from cotton pads for children: applique "Snowman"

New Year is approaching. Try to create a fabulous atmosphere in your home. In this article we will look at how to make crafts from cotton pads for the New Year with your own hands.

Christmas wreath made of cotton pads

You will need: cotton pads, a foam ring, pins or needles, satin ribbon, decorative elements, beads, glitter, tinsel...
Master Class

Fold in half again.
Insert the needle into the corner.

Attach the discs to the foam ring.
Place the discs close to each other.
Attach a satin ribbon with a loop to the top of the ring.
Decorate a wreath of cotton pads to your taste.
The Christmas wreath made from cotton pads is ready!

Christmas tree made of cotton pads

You will need: cotton pads, cardboard, scissors, stapler, pins or needles, glue, decorative elements - stars, beads, glitter, tinsel...
Master Class
Make a cone out of cardboard.
Take a cotton pad and fold it in half.

Fold in half again and secure the corner with a stapler.
Repeat this process with all drives.
Attach the discs to the cone using pins.

Start the fastening process from the bottom in a circle, then rise to the top in continuous circles. The disks should be attached tightly to each other.
Decorate the Christmas tree to your taste.
The cotton pad Christmas tree is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

Angel made from cotton pads

You will need: cotton pads, stapler, scissors, satin ribbon or thread, decorative elements.
Master Class
Take a cotton pad and fold it in half.
Cut the corner in a semicircle - you get the head of an angel.
Unfold the same disk and cut out the middle in such a way as to create wings.

Take a new cotton pad and form the body of an angel.
Attach the head and wings to the body with a stapler.
Attach the ribbon, forming a loop for further hanging.
Decorate to your taste.
The cotton pad angel is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

Santa Claus made from cotton pads

You will need: cotton pads, plastic spoon, glue, red yarn, buttons for eyes, ribbon or thread for hanging, red felt-tip pen, scissors.
Master Class
Take a cotton pad.

Fold its side into the center.
Make cuts along the edge of the circle.

Draw a smile with a felt-tip pen.
Take a plastic spoon.

Apply glue to the spoon, leaving the tip without glue.

Wind the yarn tightly.

Apply glue on both sides to the tip of the spoon and glue the face of Santa Claus to the convex part.

Glue a clean cotton pad onto the concave part of the spoon.

Cut a circle from a cotton pad and glue it onto the tip of the spoon handle. Cut a circle from a cotton pad, color it with a felt-tip pen and glue it as a nose.

Glue buttons as eyes.
Attach ribbon or thread to form a loop for further hanging.
Santa Claus made from cotton pads is ready!

Flowers made from cotton pads

You will need: 9 cotton pads for one flower, stapler, satin ribbon for hanging, decoration elements.
Master Class
Form 7 petals from disks as shown in the picture.

Attach a hanging ribbon to one of the petals.
Secure the petals between the two disks using a stapler.

Decorate to your taste.
Make the required number of flowers and decorate the Christmas tree with them.
Flowers made from cotton pads are ready!

Garland of cotton pads

You will need: cotton pads, thick white thread, needle, simple pencil.
Master Class
Take the thread.

Insert a needle and tie a knot at the end.
Mark the location where the disks are to be mounted using a pencil.
Thread the discs using a regular basting stitch.

Decorate the windows, walls with a garland, or hang it from the ceiling.
The garland of cotton pads is ready!

Christmas balls made from cotton pads

You will need: 15 cotton pads for one ball, white thread with a needle, stapler, satin ribbon for hanging.
Master Class
Take a cotton pad and fold it in half.

Fold in half again and secure with a stapler.
Repeat this process with all drives.

Thread the disks onto the thread through the ends.
Form a circle.

Tighten then secure the thread.
Attach ribbon for further hanging.

Make the required number of balls.
Christmas balls made from cotton pads are ready!

Snowman made of cotton pads

You will need: cotton pads, scissors, cardboard, ice cream stick, glue, buttons for eyes, colored paper, plasticine, rope for a scarf.
Master Class
Take 3 cotton pads and make two of them smaller.
Cut cardboard circles to fit the discs.
Glue them together.
Glue the circles to the popsicle sticks.
Turn the stick over and glue 3 disks of the desired size.
Make small balls of plasticine and attach them as buttons.
Glue the snowman's eyes.
Cut out a carrot-shaped nose and a headdress from colored paper.
Glue the parts to the snowman.
Tie a piece of string as a scarf.
The cotton pad snowman is ready!
To create a fabulous, unique and inimitable atmosphere you need to make it yourself. Choose the most original crafts and start creating. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

Useful tips

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

They make beautiful New Year's crafts and cards, as well as original flowers - daisy, rose, lily and others.

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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 for kindergarten: postcard with a snowman

You will need:

2 cotton pads

Colored paper

Scissors

Marker (if necessary)

Colored cardboard (for postcards) or adhesive film (for window decoration).

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 them 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 bend it in half - this will be a blank for the postcard.

5. Glue both cotton pads to the workpiece. Glue the small disk slightly on top of the large one.

6. Glue on the hat, scarf and nose.

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

Crafts from cotton pads for children: applique "Snowman"

You will need:

Cotton pads

Colored cardboard

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

1. Glue two cotton pads (one end on top of the other) to a piece 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. Use ribbon to make a scarf for the snowman.

DIY crafts from cotton pads: snowball

You will need:

Cotton pads

Thread or ribbon.

1. Fold all the necessary cotton pads into quarters and add glue to the tip of the resulting figure.

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

3. Bend the glued parts to form half a ball.

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

*You can add some ribbon or string so that the ball can be hung.

Flowers made from cotton pads: 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 roll it from the bottom as shown in the image. Tie the twisted part with thread.

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

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

You can decorate any card with this flower or use it in an applique.

DIY children's crafts from cotton pads: angel

You will need:

Cotton pads

Glitter.

Crafts from cotton pads and sticks: lily flower

You will need:

Cotton pads

Cotton buds

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 paint one end yellow.

3. Insert a cotton swab into the tube with the unpainted end down.

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

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

Crafts from cotton pads (photo): Christmas wreath

You will need:

Foam ring

Cotton pads

Needles or pins.

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

2. Using pins, attach all the cotton pads to the foam ring.

Roses made from cotton pads

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, place a cotton pad on it, wrap it around the skewer and press until it sticks well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

DIY application "Rainbow over the clouds" made 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 most of it.

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

3. Apply a drop of glue to each cotton pad and begin gluing them to your rainbow.

*You can attach the craft to the wall using double-sided tape, or attach ribbon or string and hang it.

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

Christmas tree made of cotton pads

To make a Christmas tree, you will need to perform the following steps:

First, a cardboard cone is made (a circle is drawn using a compass, then it is divided into 4 parts and 1 such part is cut off, after which the cardboard is rolled into a cone with an acute angle at the top).
The cotton pad is folded first in half, then in half again. After this, a stapler is used to fix its folded position on the sharp side. Then the resulting halves are made voluminous by hand. The same actions are performed with the remaining cotton pads.
The blanks are attached with pins to a cardboard cone.
To decorate the Christmas tree, you can use 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 shape of an angel, take a cotton blank and place a bead in its center. Next, you need to wrap the edges up in a cotton pad and wrap the part with the bead using thread or fishing line. The edging of the workpiece is made wavy with scissors. The result is the wings and head of an angel.

To make a long robe, the cotton blank is folded in half, and then divided into 3 parts, bringing the two side ones back, after which the blank is secured 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. At this point the craft is ready.

To make New Year's balls, follow these steps:

Fold all the cotton pads into quarters and add glue to the end of the resulting figure.
Glue together 4 pieces folded in this way. Only the ends should be glued, and not the entire shapes. Next, you should wait until the glue dries.
Bend the glued sections so that you get half a ball.
Repeating steps 1-3, make the second half of the ball, and then glue both parts together.

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

Christmas wreath made of cotton pads

The sequence of actions when making a Christmas wreath:

Let's prepare the base. You will need a large foam ring. If there is no such ring, then you can make it yourself by simply rolling up a number of newspapers and gluing them together to create the shape of a ring.
The elements for the wreath can be made like this: assemble the first disk in the shape of a bag, attach the second and third to it. In this way you can make roses with your own hands from cotton pads.
Several flowers need to be placed and glued in the center.
Roses are glued next to each other to the base of the wreath.
If there are gaps left, they are filled with large beads.
We decorate the Christmas wreath with a satin ribbon or bow.

Topiary made from cotton pads

Topiary is a product characterized by tenderness and grace.

To make one rose for topiary, you will need two cotton wool discs and one bead. First, take one cotton pad and roll it into a ball. Then a second cotton pad is applied to it and wrapped around it.

The bud is secured with a thread and a needle. Next, the needle is threaded from below and directed upward, 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, and its tip is tied 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 step in this craft from cotton pads is to sew along the edge of this tape, and then turn it right side out and gather it on a thread to form a leaf shape.

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

The leaves should be evenly distributed and pinned to the outer circle of the foam.

Flowers must be greased with hot glue and glued to the jar, filling first the lower tier, and then the subsequent ones upward.

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.

DIY flowers made from cotton pads

Roses

To create a rose you will need to do the following:

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

Daisies

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

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

Daisies

The Daisy flower is made like this:

Making petals for a daisy. Take a cotton pad and twist its lower part. In order for the petal to hold, this part is tied with a thread.
You will need about 10 such petals. These petals are then arranged in a circle to form a flower.
Next, the central part of the flower is made. The disc is painted yellow and only after that it is glued to the petals.
You can decorate a greeting card with this flower.

Calla lilies

Calla is an attractive white flower with a yellow center. To do this you will need:

Cut the cotton swab into two parts so that only a small part with the cotton head remains.
Paint this cotton part with yellow paint.
Wait until it dries completely and insert it into the straw.
The straw, in turn, should be wrapped in corrugated paper.
Glue the edges together with a cotton pad and form a flower.
Glue this flower to the straw.
If desired, you can add a green leaf to the stem.

Other flowers are also created in a similar way.

Crafts from cotton pads: beautiful birds

White Owl

To create a White Owl craft, you need to perform the following steps:

On a plain white piece of paper, draw the outlines of an owl with a pencil.
Cut out the design and paste it onto colored cardboard.
Cut out the claws, beak and eye circles from black paper.
Cut out two more circles, but yellow in color, with a slightly smaller diameter.
Cut feathers of the desired shape from a cotton blank.
Glue on the claws, beak, feathers and formed eyes.
Use a felt-tip pen to draw outlines on the feathers.

Swan

You can also easily make a “Swan” craft from cotton pads. To do this you will need:

Cut out a lake for a swan from colored paper. If you only have white cardstock, you can simply glue a piece of colored paper onto it and let it dry to create colored cardstock.
Glue the lake onto cardboard. Place one cotton swab on it - this will be the body of our swan.
Cut out the neck, head and wings and glue to the body.
Cut out reeds from brown paper, and leaves and stems for the reeds from green paper.
Stick them on paper to the lake.
Draw, cut and glue the sun and sky.
Add waves if desired. To do this, they are drawn and cut out of blue paper. They can also be added to the picture itself.
Use black paint to paint the eyes of the swan. Paint the beak red.

Cotton pads have found their use in creativity. They can be cut into pieces, colored with any paints, markers or felt-tip pens, glued, changed shape - bent or rolled. You can easily make original crafts yourself using cotton wool and other available materials. A gift made with one’s own hand will be able to remind of its giver for a long period of time. Also, creative handicrafts are an excellent option for children's leisure. All children can handle making various products from cotton wool. Try it - it's interesting and exciting.