Nice to the touch, snow-white cotton pads can be used not only for cosmetic purposes, but also for original and easy-to-make crafts. For the New Year, they can be used to make a voluminous Christmas tree, a greeting card, a wreath on the door, various pendants and much more. The ease of working with this material allows you to attract even the smallest children to the creative process.
To create beautiful crafts from cotton pads, you will need:
- colored paper and cardboard;
- sewing and knitting threads;
- colored paints;
- buttons, beads, eyes;
- bright satin threads of various thicknesses;
- trimming colored felt;
- cotton swabs;
- ice cream sticks, cocktail rolls, disposable tableware;
- glue.
As for the tools that you will have to work with, their list is not so long, and they can all be found in every home where there are children: scissors, a sewing needle, a stapler and brushes.
An easy way to make a Christmas tree
For the volumetric crafts of the Christmas tree, you will need a frame in the form of a cone, which you just need to "dress" in circles of white non-woven material.
For schoolchildren, a more complex model can be proposed, where each circle is folded in a certain way and glued to the base. It will be enough for kids to simply stick the discs in random order, which 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 will be appropriate for the New Year's beauty.
Crafts from disks in the form of animals
White cotton mugs can be turned into a funny Krosh hare, a butterfly, birds, a lamb or a panda. Discs from which the details of the animal are cut can be glued to an ice cream shelf and a plastic straw, then you get a doll for a puppet theater. With such crafts, you can play out 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 animal parts can be cut out of felt or colored paper. By following the same principles, you can make snowmen.
Winter landscapes from cotton rounds
Pictures can not only be drawn, but also created from various materials at hand. Cotton pads, similar to white fluffy snow, are ideal for recreating winter landscapes.
On a sheet of colored cardboard, you need to glue blanks of paper in the form of trees and houses, and then cover all this with snow from white circles. Individual snowflakes can be made from cotton swabs.
Other New Year's crafts
In addition to those listed above, you can make Christmas balls on a Christmas tree from cotton pads, which will look no worse than other decorations. You just need to assemble the discs into a lush pompom using a thread with a needle, and then sew a loop from a satin ribbon.
If you paste over a ring made of polystyrene or cardboard with cotton circles collected in the center, you will get a very effective New Year's wreath that can be hung on the door. You can use the same materials for decorating it 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 anticipation of the New Year more interesting and help parents and children have fun together.
