- Easy way to make a Christmas tree
- Crafts from discs in the form of animals
- Winter landscapes from cotton rounds
- Other Christmas crafts
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Snow-white cotton pads, pleasant to the touch, can be used not only for cosmetic purposes, but also for original and easy crafts. For the New Year, you can make a voluminous Christmas tree, a greeting card, a wreath on the door, various pendants and much more from them. The simplicity of working with this material allows you to involve even the smallest children in the creative process.
To create beautiful crafts from cotton pads, you will need:
- colored paper and cardboard;
- sewing and knitting threads;
- color paints;
- buttons, beads, eyes;
- bright satin threads of various thicknesses;
- colored felt scraps;
- cotton buds;
- ice cream sticks, cocktail straws, disposable tableware;
- glue.
As for the tools you will have to work with, the list is not so long, and all of them can be found in every home where there are children: scissors, a sewing needle, a stapler and brushes.
Easy way to make a Christmas tree
For a voluminous Christmas tree craft, you will need a frame in the form of a cone, which you just need to “dress” in white circlesnonwoven fabric.
For school-age children, a more complex model can be offered, where each circle is folded in a certain way and glued to the base. Toddlers can simply randomly stick on discs that can be left white or painted green.
After such manipulations, it remains only to decorate the Christmas tree using beads, ribbons, rhinestones and everything that would be appropriate on the New Year's beauty.
Crafts from discs in the form of animals
White mugs made of cotton wool can be turned into a funny hare Krosh, a butterfly, birds, a sheep or a panda. The disks from which the details of the animal are cut out can be glued onto an ice cream shelf and a plastic straw, then you get a puppet theater puppet. With such crafts, you can play New Year's performances.
If you stick them on a sheet of cardboard or colored paper, you get a beautiful handmade New Year card. Colored details of animals can be cut out of felt or colored paper. By following the same principles, you can make snowmen.
Winter landscapes from cotton rounds
Paintings can not only be drawn, but also created from various improvised materials. Cotton pads that look like white fluffy snow are ideal for recreating winter landscapes.
On a sheet of colored cardboard you need to stick paper blanks in the formtrees and houses, and then cover it all with white circles of snow. Cotton swabs can be used to make individual snowflakes.
Other Christmas crafts
In addition to those listed above, you can make Christmas tree balls from cotton pads that will look no worse than other decorations. It is only necessary to collect the disks into a fluffy pompom with a thread and a needle, and then sew on a loop from a satin ribbon.
If you paste over a ring made of foam or cardboard with cotton circles gathered in the center, you will get a very effective New Year's wreath that can be hung on the door. To decorate it, you can use the same materials as for decorating a similar Christmas tree craft.
Cotton pads are an affordable material that can be widely used to create New Year's crafts. Such joint family creativity can make the expectation of the New Year more interesting and help parents and children have fun together.
