Cotton stick crafts: the best popular and unusual crafts for children and adults

When it comes to creativity and children, at once come to mind fakes of the most diverse scale, from carved snowflakes to cards and drawings. In the matter of creativity should not limit themselves to anything. Just take as a basis some interesting idea or design theme, and get to work. In this section, let's look at options and ideas for creativity on the theme of crafts from cotton buds and disks for children.

Preparing

It doesn't matter what age the child is, because creativity is not divided by age. All you need to do is secure the surface from the subsequent mess, which is enough after the inspiring process of making fakes, and, of course, advise the child on the safety of using the materials. The littlest ones need to be kept under supervision and exclude small parts.

All you need to prepare a work table is a newspaper as a backing or some unwanted tablecloth. Any polyethylene will also work fine.

The easiest option is to use a trash bag cut at the seams. To do this, figure out the size of the table and make cuts along the lines ❏: bottom ↽, and side ↾. This is usually enough to make a primitive rectangular backing ▭, which is then convenient to remove.

Prepare the tools your child will be working with.

This will work for:

Pencil ✏
Scissors ✄.

Auxiliary tools for stapling can be:

Glue,
Plasticine or salt dough (for crafts with children),
Stapler,
Thread with a needle,

How to make dough: Mix the right amount of flour and water, add a few spoons of salt, knead until the dough is not sticky to your hands, but remains extremely moist.

What additional materials you can use:

Paints,
Glitter,
Rhinestones,
Colored threads,
Beads,
Beads,
Foil,
Wire,
Colored wrappers,
Natural materials and so on.

Ideas for inspiration

So, as is clear from the subject of the review, we will work with materials of cotton swabs and cotton disks. Quite simple and primitive materials that everyone has at home. The cotton disks can be replaced with ordinary absorbent cotton. One of the options for creativity when children want to please their mothers was the holiday of March 8.

The crafts for March 8 from absorbent cotton disks and sticks are quite easy to make and leave a wide space for inspiration. You can make a willow tree, a flower, write your mother's name or other words of wishes out of cotton swabs. All of this can be placed with interest on a piece of paper and fixed with PVA glue. You can also fasten with another type of glue, but be careful and always read the instructions for use.

What you can make from cotton buds:

Flower,
Snowflake,
Tree,
Inscriptions and text.

Creation of a composition

Verb

If all these materials and ideas can be combined with each other, it is possible to create entire compositions. It is possible to aim the base in the form of cotton sticks on plasticine and make a tree of them, to which other branches will be attached by the method of joining with plasticine.

If the child is very small, then you do not need to risk with plasticine, you can always make salt dough and let the child play with it. The material is excellent bonding designs and after drying does not deteriorate, and hardens as well as bonding glue.

Make a craft for children out of cotton balls in the form of a willow tree will be a great excuse to surprise teachers in kindergarten or at school labor lessons. You can decorate the willow tree with colored glitter or beads.

The lake house and the nature around it

From a cotton disk you can make a lake and cut out birds or swans. The lake itself can be covered in blue, and the sun can be added on top from the same cotton disk. In addition to the lake and the sun, you can cut out a cotton disk in the form of grass and also paint it. In the same way, you can build houses on paper from cotton buds,

Comes out such a volumetric and interesting imitation.

In addition, it is possible to construct other three-dimensional figures out of cotton disks:

Snowman,
Animals,
Plants,
Letters.

Ideas for March 8

Here your imagination is limited only by scissors and paints. In addition, be sure to combine ideas with additional materials. So the forgery will acquire an additional entourage and will look very interesting. You can decorate a card for March 8 in the form of "8" from colored cotton disks, add dried herbarium there and embroider beads or buttons on the card.

Floral fantasies for mom

Interesting volumetric work can be done in the form of entire floral compositions. You can thread a spiral on the wire, make it from the tip of the wire and wind it on a pencil in the form of a spring ⟳↺ ⟲ ↻.

These springs are needed in order to string cotton disks and give them the shape of flowers. Painting leaves and cutting out under different shapes can make a whole flower bouquet.

Animals

In addition, you can sew a pano from cotton disks to make some kind of animal, which can be painted, sew beads on it or add rhinestones and sequins.

You can make a lot of interesting things out of cotton swabs, from decorating in the form of a fluffy lion's mane on a card or piece of paper, where the cut "tops" will be painted in the desired color. Or some kind of cute and funny hedgehog, whose base can be made of plasticine and threaded on it needles with fluffy cotton tips.

As you can see, there are no restrictions! All you need is a little time and attention, and in a few moments you'll start to form a new fake. Do not limit yourselves in creativity and show interesting examples for children, because when else will the "parents" get a "good grade" together with the child :)