Handmade crafts from cotton buds - the most popular design options, master class for beginners

In the use of cotton swabs is known not only for their direct purpose, but also for the use in the manufacture of products made by yourself.

The resulting handicrafts can be painted with gouache, watercolor.

You can buy colored sticks ready-made.

With absorbent cotton sticks can be made in the works of children from three years. But still in the performance of the work must be the presence of adults.

The use of this material is very diverse, for example, instead of a brush for paints and glue, for products.

To create a volumetric base is suitable use of foam, plasticine, polymer clay.

Handicrafts .

In order to understand the whole point of working with this material, it is recommended to make simple crafts from cotton buds for children.

Cotton sticks can be used on any topic. This can be seen, it is enough to look on the Internet. And there will show a great variety of such works.

They are made quite simply, even a baby will be able to repeat.

The use of such techniques in the work will contribute to the development of fine motor skills in children, their imagination.

In order to recreate a sample or make an author's handicraft, you need to know the rules.

For crafts it is better to buy cheap sticks, because there thinner plastic. Therefore it will be more convenient to use. Sometimes in the making of products you need pieces of these bases and if they are thin, it is easier to cut and glue.

To make the result more voluminous, it is recommended to use a special base. The sticks will be glued to it. Also, instead, they can be poked into such a base. But be sure to fix with glue for strength.

If colorful sticks are needed, they are painted with gouache.

Decorative decorations, glitter are used.

Applique from cotton buds

With this material, you can make an applique. This is a simple work, but it requires precise technique:

• To make an applique, you need to prepare a dense surface, such as cardboard.
• In order to fix the material on the cardboard, it is necessary to have thick glue, plasticine.
• To make multicolored sticks, it is best to use gouache. It will make them saturated and dry quickly. But the process of coloring is recommended to do before creating the product, so it will be neater and will not stain the elements that do not need to be painted.

To complete the image, use cotton disks.

Hedgehog .

The performance of this work is ideal for children ages 3 to 4. But it can also be done together with a two-year-old child:

• For the work, you will need plasticine. The body of the hedgehog and the head are made of it. If there is no plasticine, you can prepare in advance salt dough.
• This blank may look like a rounded piece and an elongated muzzle in front.
• Cut the sticks into two parts before starting to make them. These will be the hedgehog's needles. Together with the child, after a personal example, start dipping them into the back of the animal. For voluminosity, it is necessary to keep not large gaps between them.
• Next, work is done to create a muzzle. Plasticine is used for this purpose. Eyes and nose are made of black.
• To make the handicraft was more fun and unusual, then you can use painted cotton swabs.

Chicken

To make a chicken, you need a sheet of cardboard. It is necessary to draw an oval on it, which has a head start in the form of an egg:

• Cut off the tips of the cotton buds. They should be used to cover the body of the chicken.
• The oval is covered with glue from the outer edge and pieces of cotton buds are applied.
• Each layer is glued evenly.
• After covering the torso, you can carefully paint it yellow.
• Simplifying the work would be to use cotton buds pre-painted.
• For a chicken to make the legs is very simple. To do this, you need red colored paper. Take a small piece. And peel in half. One foot is drawn and cut out. In the end there are two. They are glued to the bottom of the body.
• A piece of cardboard is cut out in the shape of a diamond. This will be the beak.
• Cardboard is used to cut out the eyes.

As a result, you get a yellow fluffy chick.

Sheep

From the age of 10, a child can do more complicated work. For example, to make a sheep:

• At the beginning of the work, the outline of the animal is drawn on the cardboard. The forehead should be slightly enlarged in size, to fix the chub.
• The body should be covered with half-sticks row by row.
• On the forehead of the sheep glued a piece of absorbent cotton with the tips of sticks.
• Muzzle painted with felt-tip pens, pencils.
• The legs are made from wooden clothespins, or four pieces of cotton sticks are used.

When using these techniques can be made any animal.

Panda

Children at the age of 5 to 6 years will be interested in creating a panda. Certain steps are performed:

• A sheet of black cardboard is taken and an oval is cut out of it, this will be the torso. Along with this comes the cutting out of four circles, it will be paws.
• On a piece of white sheet of paper draws the eyes, a spout in the shape of a triangle and cut out.
• The ends of the sticks should be trimmed and glued to the torso and head. The squares are filled in, start decorating the muzzle. The eyes and nose are attached to it. To make it look more like a panda, then the area around the eyes is painted with a marker.

This technique can be used to create a brown bear. Only for him to prepare cut out paws and ears of brown cardboard.

Snowman

To create a handicraft with a winter and New Year theme, it is logical to make a snowman. This character made of snow will convey a winter atmosphere.

Making it is very simple. Children will enjoy making it:

• It is necessary to make three balls of plasticine, or take from Styrofoam.
• They need to be stapled together to make a base for the craft. To do this, the plastic part of the stick is dipped in glue and it fastens the balls. Glue is needed for strength of the construction.
• The next step is to cut the cotton sticks into halves. These parts are stuck in a dense layer on the surface of the balls.
• After the entire snowman is filled, then the creation of the nose begins.
• To do this, you need a small piece of orange colored paper and make a small cone. It should be glued on the first ball between the sticks.
• Next, you need to make eyes from white and black paper, or buy ready-made. They are attached above the nose.
• You need to make hands. To do this, you will need a piece of wire. Two identical pieces are made and poked into the snowman.
• From the red fabric goes to make a scarf, mittens and a hat. You can glue a small piece under the nose, it will be a mouth.
• Mittens can also be made blue from felt. Felt is a very good material, it is often used for crafts. There are many shades.
• Wire can also be decorated with gray felt, to look more voluminous. The hat is made at will. And the shape of the scarf can also be any shape.

To complete the handicraft, the snowman can be placed on a white napkin, gluing foam balls around it. Also with the help of small snowflakes can be decorated with mittens and a hat and scarf.

Flowers from cotton buds

Using this object of hygiene, you can make unusual and varied flowers.

A simple solution would be to use small blanks of foam plastic. They are cut in two halves. The cotton swabs are also cut into two parts.

They are then poked into the styrofoam. After completing the poking in a circle, you need to make a stem. A small piece of wire will be needed. The flower is attached to it. Leaves are made from colored paper of any shape. Glued on the glue. Flower ready.

For colorfulness you can use colored cotton swabs.

The willow tree .

A simple option would be a palm tree craft out of cotton swabs and plasticine.

For this, you need a sheet of cardboard and on it is made a vase of plasticine at the bottom of any taste. Using sausages of brown plasticine made willow branches. The number can be any number.

To make the willow branches, you need to apply a soft part of the cotton swabs on the sides to these brown strips. Do not do it too often, or it will not turn out naturally.

The result is a composition with a willow tree. Very easy to do with children.

For Easter, you can make with your own hands a willow tree craft out of absorbent cotton sticks. As a branch will be floral wire. Need a small piece of darker color. At the tip is attached to the cotton bud tip. For the handicraft only this part will come in handy, so you need to make a lot.

Glue it on using a glue gun. White blanks are attached to the sides. After the entire branch is filled, then the excess pieces of glue are cut off with scissors.

Next, you will need brown floral tape, it should be wrapped around the wire. But for it to be tight, then a glue gun is used in the beginning, and then you can not use it.

Glue is also needed at the end.

An unusual dandelion

Creating a dandelion will be a craft from cotton disks and cotton buds.

To begin, the cotton swabs are cut into two equal parts. Then they should stick them in a small ball of foam plastic, leaving small gaps.

For the stem will need a wooden skewer. It should be painted green, or wrapped in something green. When the balloon is finished filling, it is attached to the stem. You can use white sticks, then paint them. But you can use already painted in the desired colors.

The dandelion can be left white, or you can make it unusual and from different shades.

Daisies

In the beginning it is necessary to prepare a blank from cotton sticks. To do this, starting from the ends you need to measure 2 cm and cut off.

From a piece of plasticine a yellow heart is made. In it are poked pieces of cotton swabs in a circle. In the middle you get a circle of plastic pieces. Then it is correct. On the back side a little plasticine is added and attached to the cardboard.

To make the stem, you need a thin sausage of green plasticine.

After the stem is attached, leaves are made of the same plasticine and attached to the sides. The end result is a simple daisy.

Winter landscape with a house

To make a house, it is necessary to make a square of sticks. Then he glued to the blue cardboard. On top of the two sticks in the form of a triangle glued roof.

To create a volume effect on top of four cotton sticks are used. And for the log cabin is used two at the top and bottom and three on the sides. You can add another one on each side.

For the image of winter, you need to add absorbent cotton on the roof. A cloud is made of it.

Snowflakes are depicted as small circles of absorbent cotton.

A window is glued in the middle of the log cabin.

Snowflakes out of cotton balls

You can make snowflakes for decorations or gifts for the New Year.

It is necessary to take 8 sticks, another 4 cut into halves. It is necessary to cut a circle out of cardboard and spread glue starting from the middle. Then attach the whole cotton sticks and between them half, everything alternates. Next, to fix the construction, a circle of the same size should be glued on top.

After everything is dry, you can attach the cord and decorate the room.

To make a large and voluminous snowflake you need to cut out the base having a snowflake shape. The entire area should be covered with glue. The soft parts of the sticks are glued from the extreme part to the central part. After attaching the cord, and the product is ready.

There is a large variety of crafts using cotton buds. The options listed will help children learn all the techniques and try their own experience. With these products can participate in competitions and take prizes.

Pictures of absorbent cotton crafts