Crafts from cotton wands

Have you ever tried to do something extraordinary and interesting from ordinary things? If not, then you lost a lot and now is the time to catch up. And in the event that you have already mastered something from improvised materials, here are some more ideas of what you can do with simple cotton buds.

Cotton buds are in every house, this is the most common household item. And today we learn how to turn them into something absolutely amazing. This occupation will appeal to the child and the adult. So, let's begin.

Cotton sticks

That's such a lovely and pretty lamb in all respects we will produce today. For this we will need: glue, scissors, cardboard, markers, two wooden clothespins and, in fact, cotton buds.

1. First, draw on the cardboard or thick paper torso and head. The forehead of the lamb should be slightly larger than just in the figure, since we will attach it to it.
2. From the cotton buds we cut off the tips and in rows we fix them on the body, as shown in the picture. Be sure to leave a place under your head.
3. We also decorate it with our improvised hair and attach it to the body.
4. Then the entire structure is firmly glued to the two clothespins. They will play the role of legs.
5. Everything, our lamb is ready. In the clothes pegs, you can fix a postcard or a note.

You can make a voluminous lamb from cotton buds. To do this, the egg from the kinder-surprise is useful.

1. Attach the loop in advance.
2. With a hot awl, puncture holes in the egg.
3. To sticks it was more convenient to insert cut their tips with a tail 2-3 mm.
4. Insert the chopsticks into the egg, pre-dipping them in the glue.
5. You should get this kind of workpiece. The legs are made from a rod of a cotton swab.
6. Insert the cotton swab into the butt end of the egg. It will be a mount for the head.
7. Dip the cotton wool in the glue and form the head.
8. In the same way, attach the eyes
9. It remains only to color the face.
10. Ready work can be silvered sequins.

Cotton sticks applications

For the youngest, the lamb can be made by taking the lid from the jar. Fill it with plasticine and tightly stick in rows of cotton buds. Attach the feet from the paper. It remains to paste the work on the background, and you will get a wonderful application.

It will be interesting for boys to put on paper a skeleton or a dinosaur. And still from the wadded sticks can be folded a beautiful house.

Cotton sticks can perfectly imitate a willow branch. It will be a wonderful spring gift.

By the same principle as a sheep you can make a poodle or an owl made of cotton buds. Stages of owl production are shown in the figure.

In addition, from cotton buds, you can make other children's crafts, for example, snowflakes.

This can be as simple as applique, and decoration on the tree.

A flat snowflake is done like this:

1. Prepare two mugs of paper and spread them with glue. Still do these kinds of blanks from cotton buds.
2. Place the sticks around in a circle, fasten the thread and press on top with another mug.
3. Decorate your snowflake with foil.

Stages of manufacturing a bulk snowflake are shown in the pictures. For them, you need foam balls (sold in stores for needlework). Soap is made from salt. It turns out that such a beauty. All ingenious is simple.

Original flower from cotton buds

If you get a large diameter ball in the store, you can make these fantasy flowers. You can color them in any color.

Cotton sticks flowers

For this miracle, we again need foam balls, colors and cotton buds with a colored base. White will not look so beautiful. All stages of the work are shown in detail in the figures. The resulting flowers will please you for a long time or become a wonderful gift.

Do it for your own pleasure.