Handcrafts from absorbent cotton disks - making interesting projects with children on the step-by-step with their hands

Specialized stores offer a huge range of products for creativity that can be used in different combinations. If you wish, even without spending a lot of money you can create interesting and unusual crafts from cotton disks, because they can always be found in the house and used for hygiene purposes.

It is easy to make a single item with a theme of your choice or a beautiful installation, card or painting out of handicrafts. Kids will especially enjoy working with soft and pleasantly textured cotton disks, because they are already round and do not need to be cut out.

How to use cotton pads in homemade crafts

Inexpensive cotton disks are easy to use in creating simple crafts or more complex designs with three-dimensional shapes. In addition to simple cards and paintings, you can create large flowers, learning with your child the shape of a circle, flower balls and topiaries, involving children in the creative process:

Simple and mosaic applique from whole and cut cotton disks with a pre-selected idea;
thematic compositions and cards for holidays, interesting pictures with volumetric elements for the exhibition;
multilayer crafts and decoration of carnival costumes with cotton disks (scales of the Little Mermaid, feathers of the Firebird);
Toys for decorating the Christmas tree, garlands and snowflakes to decorate the house or children's rooms for the holidays;
volumetric decor for thematic, festive wreaths for the New Year and Christmas, Easter or the Golden Autumn holiday.

To process the original material, techniques of applique and gluing are used, and cotton disks can be colored with regular watercolor paints. To increase the aesthetics of finished products, they are supplemented with all kinds of decorations using colored paper and plasticine, woolen threads, natural material.

Flowers and flower baskets

The easiest way to make beautiful feces from cotton disks, for this purpose it is enough to bend the edges of one element to the center and glue a cotton stick. Several white cotton disks combined in a circle will help to reproduce the shape of an apple, cherry or apricot flower and you can complement the picture with dried or painted leaves.

A spring craft of snowdrops from cotton disks would make a great gift for a grandmother, mother or educator, but it will require cutting in the shape of a flower.

Pictures with winter motifs

Most often, cotton disks are used to create simple pictures that depict a snowman or a whole family of snowmen. From individual elements mono cut snowflakes without openwork elements or stars, they can be easily assembled into a horizontal garland to decorate the Christmas tree.

Finished snowflakes or stars stitched on a sewing machine look beautiful, they make an excellent vertical decoration for door or window openings.

A card for mom on March 8

What could be nicer for a mother or grandmother than a greeting card or card made and decorated by the hands of a child. Touching crafts for March 8 from cotton disks can be in the form of applique, with round elements glued in the form of a perfect figure eight to complete the composition.

Decorate such a card from thick colored cardboard can be flowers and bouquets from cotton disks, sunshine and other shapes that are easy to reproduce a child.

Bells and bells

Decorate the house for any holiday and replace the traditional decorations with bells or bells made of cotton disks. Blanks are made by analogy with calla lilies, only the place of bending will be placed at the top, the bell's tongue will be replaced by a cotton rod cut in half.

Preparing the elements for decoration can be made with your child pretreat the surface of cotton disks, using a small amount of gouache or watercolor.

Images of animals and birds

Applique from cotton disks with different themes will help in the learning process of knowledge of the world.

A yellow chicken, pink piglet, or black kitten will be the centerpiece of a picture made by a child with his parents, and these crafts require a minimum of materials and time.

The smooth circles are easy to use in geometric installations, and it's easy enough to cut them into equal parts for mosaic applique.

A funny caterpillar made of coloured cotton disks

Having studied the shape of the circle, you can proceed to more complex activities and developing your child's imagination to introduce him to different colors from the paint palette. Interesting crafts in the technique of applique will turn out of colored cotton disks and such a caterpillar will certainly decorate the children's room:

Pre-prepared cotton disks 5-7 pcs., paint with watercolor paints on one side and leave to dry, to give the necessary color you can use felt-tip pens or powder paints;
several identical circles are circled in a row on a cardboard base, this will be the sketch of the future craft, a drop of PVA glue is placed in the center of each circle, and then the child determines which color to choose;
the baby should independently place a cotton disk of the chosen color in a circle and press with your finger to glue, so all the empty circles are filled and the colors used are called;
in the final stage, you can use grass from cut out strips of green colored paper or pencils and felt-tip pens to paint the background, while reinforcing knowledge of colors and shades.

Finished product can easily be used in the learning process and repetition of basic colors, come up with stories about the adventure of the caterpillar. The same technique is used to create applications from colored cotton disks in the form of suns and clouds, vases of flowers, or cards with balloons.

Crafts from absorbent cotton disks are great for preschool and elementary school age children, because they are great fun for kids. Parents can use all kinds of creative ideas and sketches to create paintings and cards, beautiful garlands and home decorations.