New Year's crafts made of cotton wool

Little children are very fond of doing all kinds of crafts, and they can use the most unexpected materials for this. In particular, very original products are obtained from cotton discs, which become especially relevant on the eve of the New Year. Since cotton is associated with snow, which is so lacking to create a New Year atmosphere in the premises, it is these crafts that are often used to decorate the interior on the eve of the holiday.

How to make New Year's crafts made of cotton-wool discs in the form of Christmas trees?

The most common kind of voluminous New Year's crafts made of cottonwoods is the Christmas tree. As a rule, they take a sheet of paper or thick cardboard and make it a cone shape, securely fixing the resulting figure with glue. To make this frame more durable, you can glue a strip of braid or cardboard from its inside.

After that, each wadded disk is folded in a certain way - first in half, and then again in half, after which the resulting sector of the circle in the lower part is fixed with a stapler. Such blanks are glued to the frame in a circle, moving upwards from the bottom and filling all the void spaces with cotton pads.

This New Year tree can be decorated in various ways - with beads, glass beads or beads, fir or pine cones, satin ribbons and other decorative elements. In addition, it can be covered with multicolored sparkles, and from above decorate with a bright shimmering star.

Crafts in the form of a New Year tree from wadded disks can be flat. They are created using the technique of application, which is very common among boys and girls of preschool and school age. To do this, on the cardboard or colored paper draw a contour of the future tree, then fill it with folded four-quarters of the discs and securely fix them with glue.

Such an article can be decorated in the form of a greeting card for your favorite teachers, close relatives or friends. To do this, it must be supplemented with the original text of congratulations, and if desired, and such elements as lock, lacing and so on.

Other ideas for crafts made of cotton discs on the New Year theme

Crafts made of cotton discs for the New Year can be very diverse. Fairly wide distribution was received by garlands and air curtains from this material. Make them unusually simple - to do this, just paddle the cotton buds on a string or line and fix it as you want. Especially good these garlands look on the windows, as they create an imitation of snowflakes.

From cotton pads, you can also make greeting cards for loved ones. In this case, they are pasted onto sheets of cardboard, creating various shapes, for example, a snowman. The resulting greeting card is supplemented with a congratulatory text and handed to the addressee.

Cotton discs can also be used to create unique Christmas decorations. To do this, they are also stacked in a certain way and fixed with a stapler, and then glued to a previously prepared frame. In addition, this decoration should be attached ribbon or rope, with which it can be hung on a Christmas tree. The frame in this case can be made independently or use a suitable object for this. In particular, the ball for ping-pong looks very original, the surface of which is filled with folded cotton pads and covered with sequins.

Popular in children and adults also use voluminous crafts made of cotton wool, for example, figures of snowmen.

In addition, from this inexpensive material you can make a bright and beautiful New Year's topiary for interior decoration.