How to make a flower from cotton pads. Crafts from cotton pads: how to make children's original toys and decorations? (95 photos)

From cotton pads, using additional materials, you can make very beautiful flowers with your own hands: callas, snowdrops, roses, daisies. Such a composition can be a wonderful gift, for example, on March 8th. And also with these flowers you can decorate a group in kindergarten for some kind of celebration. Yes, and it can just be a craft for an exhibition or competition.

Do-it-yourself flowers from cotton pads

These step-by-step master classes are intended for children of senior preschool and primary school age, their parents, as well as kindergarten teachers, primary school teachers and teachers of additional education.

Let's first consider, how to make a bouquet beautiful white callas.

Callas from cotton pads

This is a beautiful and very unusual tropical flower. People call it a white sail because it really looks like a sail. And it is also called female happiness. It is believed that if you give a lady such flowers, she will certainly be lucky in her personal life and long-awaited changes for the better.

For that to make a bouquet of callas with our own hands, we will need the following materials and tools:

A step by step guide to making a bouquet

  1. We start the work with take cotton pads and fold them in half.
  2. Now we draw buds on them, such as these flowers should have (if you don’t know how they look, you can find photos on the Internet).
  3. We take scissors and, according to the drawing, we cut out our calla buds from the disks.
  4. Next to us need cotton swabs. Of these, we will make the core of the flowers.
  5. Remove the cotton from one end of each stick.
  6. The other end, on which the cotton wool remains, is dipped in yellow gouache.

Our blanks for the future bouquet of discs are ready.

Now let's take the preparation, made with your own hands from a cotton pad and wrap it around a cotton swab that acts as a stalk. We smear the edges of the disk with glue and connect with each other.

Wrap a cotton swab in green plasticine.

Our bud is ready.

Now let's make leaves for flowers.

To do this, we need to arm ourselves with a stroke and black cardboard.

We draw calla leaves on cardboard with a stroke. Next, using green plasticine, color them. First, we take plasticine in our hands and warm it up. When it has become softer and more pliable, we smear the plasticine inside the contour of the sheet. It is best to start such manipulations from the edge of the leaf, so it will be more convenient to gradually stretch the plasticine towards the middle part.

Using a stack, we make veins on the leaves.

We take a stroke and draw on cardboard under the flowers pot. Color the soil with brown plasticine. Now we attach the buds already prepared before this to the foliage. If your stems turned out to be short, then you can lengthen them with green plasticine.

It remains to make a pot. For this we need white plasticine. We smear it over the silhouette of our pot. Now, as a decor, we fasten the beans.

Our craft is ready.

Now the final touch remains - to arrange the work in a frame.

Bouquet of snowdrops

You can make flowers from cotton pads with your own hands, which are the very first to bloom in spring - this is gentle and cute snowdrops. The principle of operation is similar to that described in the previous section.

Materials and tools

Getting started on the craft, you need first of all make a template, on which we will cut buds from cotton pads. To make them neat, you can find drawings or photos of snowdrops, print, cut and circle.

Flowers are ready. Now to us need to make stems. Just as in the case of callas, we make them from cotton swabs, but our actions will be slightly different. At one end, the cotton wool should be removed. On the second - lift a little up. We wrap the stick itself with green plasticine.

We cut each bud in the middle part. In these cuts you need to insert the stems. To make our snowdrop strong, we glue green plasticine over the junction of the bud with the stem. That is, in other words, we make a pedicel.

The heart of a snowdrop should be blue. We decorate it with plasticine of the appropriate shade. Now we attach the leaves.

Next, we make a vase for the bouquet with our own hands. A round jar of cream is ideal for her role. Decorate the vase with a bow. To do this, glue a small ribbon around its circumference. We leave the ends free and tie a neat bow out of them. We attach a bead to it.

Glue plasticine to the bottom of our vase. We will insert our snowdrops into it.

When everything is ready, it remains only to put cotton wool in a vase under the flowers. So the impression of a snowdrift will be created snow through which our spring flowers break through. Now you can send our craft to the exhibition or give it as a gift.

Do-it-yourself daisies from cotton pads

Another wonderful flowers that you can make with your own hands from cotton pads are chamomile. such crafts can be presented, for example, on the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, the symbol of which are these field beauties.

Materials and tools

To make a charming card with daisies from cotton pads, we need:

  • Plasticine.
  • Colored paper.
  • Cotton discs.
  • PVA glue.
  • Simple pencil.
  • Scissors.
  • Colored cardboard.

Making daisies

Take half a sheet of cardboard. Draw an oval on it with a pencil. Then we cut out what we drew.

Now we will make stems and leaves. For this we need green paper. Leaves are better to make voluminous. To do this, you just need to bend them in half, then unbend and leave in a half-bent state.

We take a sheet of cardboard and glue our stems and leaves to it.

If you are afraid that you will not do it neatly or you will cut off something superfluous, then draw lines on the disks with a ballpoint pen, along which it will be convenient to cut the flowers.

As you know, daisies have a yellow center. So that our flowers also have this, we sculpt from yellow plasticine balls. We glue them to our buds.

At the end of the work, we attach the petals to the stems.

Our craft is ready.

To make daisies look more impressive, decorate them with a frame that can be made from anything - plasticine, beans, origami, in general, which is enough for imagination.

roses

A little more difficult work for you if you want. make your own roses. They have a bud, the manufacture of which will have to work harder. These do-it-yourself flowers made from cotton pads will look like living ones and will definitely please the gifted lady.

Materials and tools

For making roses you will need:

  • Scissors.
  • Cotton discs.
  • Corrugated green paper.
  • Gouache.
  • Skewers.
  • Foam sponge.
  • PVA glue.

rose making

We start the product with, which we glue to several (depending on how many flowers you plan to include in your bouquet) cotton skewers. An approximate photo of how to do this can be found on needlework sites.

Now spread a little glue on the edges of the disks and connect these edges. We will get a button similar to calla, but more closed.

Now take another cotton pad and glue it to the one attached to the skewer. As a result, we should have 6-7 cotton pads glued on top of each other in a checkerboard pattern.

To make the craft look like real roses, need to make sepals. This work is easy. We take corrugated green paper and cut out a figure resembling a fence from it.

Then we spread it with glue and wrap it around the bottom of our bud.

Next to us need to make a stem for a rose. To do this, take corrugated paper and cut a strip out of it. The strip should be narrow. We coat it with glue and wind it in a spiral onto a skewer. We also fix the tip with glue.

From the same corrugated paper cut out the leaves for our flowers. Cut them out and glue them to the stems.

The craft is ready.

Now you know how to make flowers from cotton pads easily and at no extra cost.

Cotton pad fakes



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 from cotton pads will help diversify your child's childhood. Being an unconventional material for crafts, they have successfully established 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 follow these steps:

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

To make a long robe, the cotton blank is folded in half, and then it is divided into 3 parts, turning two side ones back, after which the blank is fixed 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. On this craft is ready.

To make Christmas balls, follow these steps:

  1. Fold all the cotton pads into a quarter and add glue at the end of the resulting figure.
  2. Glue together 4 blanks folded in this way. Only the ends should be glued, not the whole figures. Next, wait until the glue dries.
  3. Bend the glued sections in such a way that a half of the ball is obtained.
  4. Repeating the steps in paragraphs 1-3, make the second half of the ball, after which both parts are glued together.

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

Christmas wreath made of cotton pads

The sequence of actions in the manufacture of a Christmas wreath:

  1. We are preparing the base. You will need a large foam ring. If there is no such ring, then you can make it yourself by simply folding a number of newspapers and gluing them together so as to create a ring shape.
  2. Elements for a wreath can be done as follows: collect the first disk in the form of a bag, attach the second and third to it. In this way, you can make roses with your own hands from cotton pads.
  3. Several flowers in the center need to be placed and glued on a bead.
  4. Roses are glued next to each other on the base of the wreath.
  5. If there are gaps, then they are filled with large beads.
  6. We decorate the Christmas wreath with a satin ribbon or bow.

Topiary from cotton pads

Topiary is a product distinguished by tenderness and grace.

To make one topiary rose, you will need two cotton discs and one bead. First, one cotton pad is taken, twisted into a bag. Then a second cotton pad is applied to it and wrapped around.

The fastening of the bud is done with a thread using a needle. Next, the needle is threaded from below and goes up, 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 off, and its tip is connected 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 steps in this craft from cotton pads, you need to sew along the edge of this tape, and then turn it on the front side and collect on a thread to get the shape of a leaf.

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

Leaves should be evenly distributed and pinned with pins to the outer circle of foam.

Flowers must be smeared with hot glue and glued to the jar, filling the lower tier first, and then the subsequent upwards.

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.

Do-it-yourself flowers from cotton pads

roses

To create a rose, you will need to follow these steps:

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

Daisies

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

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

daisies

Daisy flower is done like this:

  1. Petals are made for daisies. A cotton pad is taken, its lower part is twisted. In order for the petal to hold, this part is tied with a thread.
  2. You will need about 10 such petals. Then these petals are laid out in a circle in the shape of a flower.
  3. Next is the central part of the flower. The disk is painted yellow and only after that it is glued to the petals.
  4. This flower can decorate a card with a wish.

callas

Calla is an attractive white flower with a yellow center. To make it, you will need:

  1. Cut a cotton swab into two parts so that only a small part of it with a cotton head remains.
  2. Paint this cotton part with yellow paint.
  3. Wait until it is completely dry and insert into a straw.
  4. The straw, in turn, should be wrapped in corrugated paper.
  5. By gluing the edges on a cotton pad, form a flower.
  6. Glue this flower to a straw.
  7. Optionally, you can add a green leaf to the stem.

Other flowers are created in a similar way.

Crafts from cotton pads: beautiful birds

White Owl

To create the crafts "White Owl", you need to perform the following steps:

  1. On a simple white sheet, draw the outlines of an owl with a pencil.
  2. Cut out the pattern and stick it on colored cardstock.
  3. Cut out claws, beak and circles of eyes from black paper.
  4. Cut two more circles, but yellow, with a slightly smaller diameter.
  5. Cut feathers of the desired shape from a cotton blank.
  6. Glue claws, beak, feathers and shaped eyes.
  7. With a felt-tip pen, draw the outlines on the feathers.

Swan

It is also easy to make a Swan craft from cotton pads. This will require:

  1. From colored paper, cut out a lake for a swan. If you only have white cardboard, then you can simply stick a piece of colored paper on it and leave it to dry to get colored cardboard.
  2. Glue the lake onto cardboard. Place one cotton swab on it - this will be the body of our swan.
  3. Cut out the neck, head and wings, glue to the body.
  4. From brown paper, cut out reeds, and from green paper - leaves and stems for reeds.
  5. Stick them on paper to the lake.
  6. Draw, cut and glue the sun and sky.
  7. Add waves if you like. To do this, they are drawn and cut out of blue paper. You can also draw them on the picture itself.
  8. Draw the eyes of the swan with black paint. Paint the beak red.

Cotton pads have found their application in creativity. They can be cut into pieces, painted with any paints, markers or felt-tip pens, glued, changed shape - bent or folded. You can easily make original crafts yourself using cotton blanks and other available materials. A handmade gift will be able to remind you of its giver for a long period of time. Also, creative needlework is a great option for children's leisure. All children will cope with the manufacture of various products from cotton material. Try it - it's interesting and exciting.

69 photos of cotton pad craft ideas

Such a simple and affordable material, like cotton pads, will delight a child when making a flower. They are round in shape, but they can be easily bent or cut by hand to create the desired shape of the petals.

In this lesson, both corrugated paper and colored double-sided paper are also used. They will perfectly complement a beautiful flower made of cotton pads.

Necessary materials

For work we need:

  • seven cotton pads;
  • green corrugated paper;
  • yellow paper;
  • stationery glue;
  • scissors;
  • pencil.

How to make a flower from cotton pads

1. To create a flower petal, use one cotton pad. Fold the right side towards the center. Then we bend the left side to this corner. We get one finished petal. For one flower, you need to make seven such blanks.


2. We fix the finished seven petals with glue so that their shape does not fall apart.


3. Cut out two circles of different diameters from yellow double-sided paper. One bouquet is the core of the flower, and the other is the base.


4. As a basis for the future flower from cotton pads, we take a large circle cut out of double-sided yellow paper. Glue all the petals one by one.


5. Fill in the space of the large yellow circle.


6. Glue a small yellow circle in the middle of the flower.


7. Then cut out leaves from green corrugated paper.


8. We form leaves with our fingers to give folds and veins in the middle of each element.


9. Glue the voluminous leaves on the back of the craft.


10. So a beautiful craft is ready - a flower made of cotton pads and corrugated paper. Such a product can be used to decorate many things.

One of the fertile materials for hand made work are cotton pads. They absorb paint well, the flowers made from them perfectly fold into bouquets that will adequately decorate any postcard.





Crafts from cotton pads made by the hands of kids are especially valuable. An elementary example is a caterpillar, a cheerful, positive character in cartoons and children's books. This is a common appliqué using the constituent elements painted in different colors.


From cosmetic cotton pads, you can create entire flower fields. In one such composition, both artistic and applied creativity are combined. In addition to cotton pads, you will need a minimum of materials: an A3 sheet, colored paper, glue and paints.

  • First, we draw the background (you can simply paint over the sheet with blue or blue paint, or you can depict additional elements on it - the sun, stars, etc.)
  • Glue the cotton pad as shown in Figure 2-4.
  • Cut out additional elements from paper (stems, leaves, grass).
  • It remains only to beautifully arrange our flowers on a piece of paper.



Another option for applied art is eclectic flowers made from cotton pads. In this case, you do not even need paper, just paints and glue are enough. The step-by-step process of creating such beauty is shown in Figure 2-5. Use a pipette to make the paint fall in neat droplets.



Crafts from cotton buds

If you have faded decorative flowers lying around at home, you can give them a second wind with the help of cotton buds. Such flowers made will look much more original than dull fabric inflorescences. We will need:

  • a set of cotton swabs;
  • gouache;
  • stems from old decorative flowers;
  • Super glue.

Take 10-15 cotton buds (the more there are, the more voluminous the inflorescence will be) and cut in half. Fold each halves with the cotton-wrap side up and fold into a flower shape. Thoroughly coat the place where the stem is attached to the inflorescence with glue and attach our flower to it. When the glue dries, you can paint our cotton swab crafts in any color by simply dipping them into the paint.

Another way to make flowers out of cotton buds is to use Styrofoam balls, which can be purchased at any craft supply store. The mechanism of operation is similar: cut cotton buds in half, stick them into a Styrofoam ball to make a flower like a dandelion, and dip the ends of the buds into the paint. Twisted wire can be used as stems.

By the same principle, you can make other crafts from cotton buds: hedgehogs, the same snowmen, etc.

flower composition

For an older child, a master class on making a flower arrangement will be interesting, for example, in the form of a bouquet in a basket or in the form of a topiary (this word is used today to call original small trees made by oneself). It is always fashionable to give such a gift to mom on March 8 or a birthday.

For manufacturing you will need:

  • cotton pads (the amount depends on the size of the composition);
  • needle;
  • beads;
  • packing box from cotton pads;
  • mounting foam;
  • glue;
  • a piece of green silk or lining fabric for leaves;
  • stapler.

We roll up the cotton pads, fix them in buds, as shown. We put aside ready-made flowers, we make leaves. They will be located around the perimeter of the vase and be a living pillow for delicate and fragile flowers. The leaf fabric folding sequence is shown below.


A jar of disks (you can use any other, for example, from under ear sticks) is filled with mounting foam, we give it the opportunity to dry. We level the surface of the foam with a knife - we make it flush with the edge of the can.

The jar itself can be painted in your favorite colors or decorated using decoupage.

We proceed to gluing flowers from cotton pads and leaves to the surface of the foam.


The work is ready. Flowers can be made in the form of callas. Then you do not need to fold the discs completely, but you can fasten them with staples and a stapler.

How to make a bouquet of roses - see the video.

DIY crafts from cotton pads can be timed to coincide with such favorite holidays as New Year, Christmas. Cute airy angels, smoothly descending on the threads of rain around the entire perimeter of the dressed room - just such an option. You can use them as toys for the Christmas tree, garlands or just additions to New Year's gifts.

The manufacturing steps are shown below. By following the basic rules of this simple master class, you can quickly and at minimal cost make the living room intriguing, and the atmosphere of the nursery - soft, romantic. Making angels begins with the design of the head and its smooth transition to the body - the dress.






At the end of the work, the head can be decorated with a wreath of yellow-gold braid, wire, or painted with paint.

New Year's wreath

How to make flowers from cotton pads, we have already figured out. Next in line is a chic souvenir, similar in manufacturing technique to a flower, but a little more complicated - a floral Christmas wreath. These are often hung on the entrance or interior doors, placed above the doorway or on the gate. True, such decoration is more domestic, because it will not withstand precipitation and fluctuations in air temperature.

Assembling a wreath is not difficult step by step, but this must be done carefully and slowly. The same disks bent into four sectors are used as blanks. The corner at the base is chipped off and attached to the main ring. You need to fasten the parts as close to each other as possible. This will create the effect of softness, fullness, artistic exoticism.


Regarding the mounting plane, it must be remembered that only the front half of the ring should be filled with artificial flowers. The back should be left flat and smooth, as it needs to be in contact with the wall or other surface on which the wreath will be located.

As soon as the wreath is ready, we proceed to the loop for fastening. Its appearance should not spoil the impression of the whole product. Therefore, a silk ribbon, folded into a loop and carefully attached to the back of the ring, is ideal.

The general view of the finished product is shown in picture 26, it is very gentle, stylish and soft. Inside the wreath of blooming roses, an angel will place it in place. The similarity of the materials used for crafts will give the souvenir the character of a single composition.

Lamb

When studying with a young child, you can invite him to dream up, imagine in the body of which animal or in which plant there are similar circles. Surely it will be:

  • panda;
  • owl;
  • a hen with a chicken after painting the wheels yellow;
  • monkey;
  • sunflower.

An interesting craft of a lamb or sheep. For those who are not lazy, it will not be difficult to make a whole herd by decorating them with colorful toy accessories. The step by step instructions are as follows:

Prepare:

  • pieces of felt;
  • threads;
  • stapler;
  • cotton pads;
  • scissors;
  • glue;
  • twine.

If there is no colored felt, you can use a special dye for fabrics.

We start by folding the disc four times and fastening the resulting shape with staples. We sew each element obtained and tightly put them on a silk cord.


Finishing the work, we give the cord with strung disks the appearance of a ball. The first stage of work has been completed.

It's up to the small - easy design of the muzzle. For this, the same pieces of felt are used, cut out in the shape and size of the intended animal. Here you can play with colors and use the material of the most unexpected colors, so the result will be more fun.

If the idea was to make a lamb in stages, we supplement its head with horns made of wire, if a lamb, there is no need for them.

Having attached the horns to the head, for example, with plasticine, as well as embroidering the eyes and nose with threads or beads, we finish the work. The result is a masterfully made, handmade toy that will look original on a branch of a Christmas tree, for example.



The figure of a chicken from yellow discs will be obtained by gluing two circles (one slightly larger than the other), depicting the head and torso. The eyes are black beads, the beak is a red triangle.

Christmas card

A holiday card featuring a cheerful snowman is very easy to make! All you need is a sheet of colored paper (preferably blue), cotton pads, glue and felt-tip pens. Take the largest diameter discs, as they will have to be shortened.

  • Cut out the "body" of the snowman. We need only three discs, two of which need to be shortened to make the snowman look more natural.
  • Glue the discs to the paper (Figure 2).
  • We “revive” the snowman by drawing his face, pens, headdress, etc. It is more convenient to draw on cotton pads with felt-tip pens, although you can also use watercolors or gouache.


You can add zest to the craft with the help of additional details - nail polish, ribbons, etc. Let your child show their imagination. There is no doubt: the “Snowman” leaflet that the kid created is much more pleasant to receive than the most expensive New Year's cards.

Snowman from paper plates

We offer you a simple and interesting type of home decor for the New Year holidays. Materials - all the same cotton balls and paper picnic plates of different sizes. This decor can decorate the walls, the front door, or make a separate panel.

  • Lay out a snowman from three paper plates, securing them with thin strips of adhesive tape (if you are making a composition in the form of a panel, you can use glue).
  • Glue cotton balls to the plates, giving the snowman volume.
  • From paper or other improvised materials, make eyes, a nose, and a headdress for the New Year's hero.

Cheerful little penguin

Another idea that even a toddler can implement. To simplify the work, we have prepared a template that you need to print on paper. However, you can use any other penguin drawing you like, or draw it yourself. The principle of making crafts is the same in any case.

We need:

  • printed template;
  • cosmetic cotton balls;
  • PVA glue;
  • scissors;
  • scraps of black and orange cardboard.


To get started, download and print the pattern template. Then cover the entire white area with glue and carefully place cotton balls on it, being careful not to go too far. Then cut out the eyes and beak of the penguin from cardboard and complete the creation of the craft.

Any New Year's characters are created in a similar way (snowman, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden). The main thing is to find a quality template.

Whether it's souvenirs made only from cotton pads, or crafts from cotton buds, they carry a charge of positive energy, develop thinking, and contribute to the development of the child's horizons. Let them be more. Let them unite children and make their inner world wider, brighter, more fun.

Doing something with your own hands is always interesting and very exciting, because in half an hour with your own hands, you can do do-it-yourself flowers from cotton pads as a decoration for a room with a unique design. Most often for crafts you need to buy various materials. It is the extra cash costs that repel many from doing hand-mei. But, what if, it turns out, you can make an original craft, is it possible from improvised materials? Interested? Then, let's get started!

MK. Do-it-yourself voluminous flowers from cotton pads with gouache staining elements

The more different techniques involved in the creative process, the better. To create the next panel, in addition to the application of cotton pads, we will use watercolor.

You will need:

  • cotton pads
  • colored cardboard for the base
  • green paper for stem
  • crepe paper
  • glue stick or PVA
  • scissors
  • stapler
  • watercolor paints
  • thin brush
  • non-spill with water.

1. First of all, we form the petals for the flower. To do this, you need to bend the cotton pad on both sides to the center and fix it in this place with a stapler. We make 5-8 such petals.

2. Carefully paint the edge of the cotton pads with a thin brush, lightly touching this edging of the petal.

3. Cut out the flower stem from green cardboard or green colored paper.

4. Then we will make a leaf from a cotton pad. Color the disc green. Now let the details of the flower dry. Once dry, cut in half. We get two leaves for a flower.

5. All available parts are laid out and glued to the base.


6. Anything can be used as the middle of the flower. For example, a simple cotton pad that can be painted with gouache in the color you like.

In the first photo, the center of the flower is unevenly cut crepe paper (thin paper often used to make large flowers).

Glue the center of the flower to the cardboard in the right place. This is the final detail of the composition. Application - voluminous flowers from cotton pads created with your own hands.

MK. Daisies - delicate flowers from cotton pads with their own hands

Cotton pad daisies are the simplest cotton pad flowers that you can easily create with your own hands. You are required to make the correct assembly of all elements and a good mood!

Necessary materials:

  • cotton pads, for one chamomile - 5-7 pieces
  • yellow colored paper - 1 sheet
  • green colored cardboard - 1 sheet (preferably double-sided)
  • scissors
  • regular pencil
  • PVA glue, but rather a glue gun
  • stapler (optional)

Manufacturing:

1. First of all, you need to take green cardboard, cut out a circle the size of a cotton pad from it. We cut out the same circle from yellow paper.

2. The green circle is the base on which the cotton pads will be attached. In order to prepare this base, you need to cut a green circle and roll it into a funnel shape, as in the photo. Do not forget to leave a hole for the future stem. For reliability, we fastened this circle not only with glue, but also with a stapler.

3. On the resulting funnel, you need to apply PVA glue to the entire surface on which the discs will be glued. The discs are mounted on the glue in turn. They should overlap each other a little to create the illusion of petals.

5. Insert the tube into the flower.

First, cut the end of the tube and glue it to a small piece of cardboard. On this design, as it were, stretch yellow colored paper, securing it with a thread.