How to make crafts from cotton disks: projects, ideas and instructions for creating things from cotton wool (68 photos + video)

Options for cotton crafts

Despite the non-standard use of cotton pads as the main material for needlework, the existence of hundreds of various options suggests its great popularity.

Most often New Year's toys and decorations are made from cotton wool, but the list continues with rich topiary, elegant flowers, interesting animals and birds.

Topiary and flowers

Most often, in the photo of crafts made from cotton pads, you can see all kinds of flowers: roses, callas, daisies, daisies or peonies. A lot of options, it remains to choose the most suitable option.

So, daisies are made of ten discs twisted from below and glued to the yellow middle, callas are formed from discs glued at the bottom and inserted into the middle of a yellow cotton swab, and roses are made from colored discs twisting around each other.

You can’t tell a do-it-yourself hand-made article from cotton pads from a topiary.

An elegant and delicate flower tree will be the perfect decoration for a living room or a children's room, and even a person inexperienced in needlework can create such a miracle.

Master Class - Topiary

• Prepare at least 50 cotton pads, beads, decorative leaflets, paints.
• Having chosen a color suitable for the interior, soak a third of the discs in colored water and allow them to dry.
• Make the required number of roses: fold one disk with a bag and wrap it in the second, thread a needle and thread through the bud, string a bead, cut the thread and tie it to the tip. Instead of roses, you can make any other flowers.
• To make a beautiful craft out of the resulting flowers from disks, you need to determine how to prepare a container of cotton buds: fill it with foam, let it dry and decorate it with beads and a satin ribbon.
• Flowers must be glued to the base, starting from the lower tier, alternating colored and colorless buds and diluting them with artificial leaves.

New Year decoration

The whiteness and the resemblance to snow make cotton pads an ideal basis for New Year's attributes. So, for the manufacture of Christmas trees you will need a cardboard cone, on which, with the help of pins, the rows of needles are fixed - folded four times and fastened with a stapler disc.

The New Year's beauty is decorated with shiny stars, a garland, tinsel or miniature Christmas toys.

An interesting craft will be a Christmas wreath. To make it, cotton pads in the form of leaflets or flowers are glued to the prepared round base of foam or paper.

The gaps are filled with beads, bows or satin ribbons.

Birds and animals

For children, interesting and uncomplicated crafts made from cotton pads in the form of animals or birds are more suitable.

To make a white owl, a contour is preliminarily marked on paper and two circles are glued - head and body. Another circle is cut into two halves and becomes wings. Additionally, claws, beak and eyes are cut out of colored paper.

Master class - snow-white swan

• Cut a lake out of colored paper and stick it on a cardboard base.
• Place one cotton swab on the application - the body of the future bird.
• From the disk, cut a long neck and wings with cut feathers, complement them with the composition.
• You can decorate the picture with reeds traced by waves and sky.

Cotton pads can be twisted, bent, glued, cut out all kinds of elements and details from them, which makes them indispensable assistants in needlework and children's art.

Inspire ideas, look for new patterns, and made crafts will become original gifts or unusual interior decorations.

Photo crafts from cotton pads