How to make a flower from cotton balls

Any piece made by own hands, looks very original and unusual. It stores the warmth of the author's soul. The style of hand-made is popular in various areas of creative activity. If you need new ideas for souvenirs, for example, a gift to your mom or girlfriend by March 8, use the recommendations below. Make a flower from cotton pads. It looks unusual and at the same time beautiful and stylish.

Tools and materials

To create such a gift, you do not need something special and expensive. Perhaps everything you need is at home, just you do not know how it can be used for decorative purposes. Look at the photo. Flowers from cotton discs (callas, roses) look so natural that they can become a worthy decoration of the room. To produce them you need the following:

• Wadded disks and sticks;
• Paints, brushes;
• scissors;
• glue;
• starch;
• plasticine;
• Thread;
• wire;
• Tapes;
• Beads or other decor (peas, beans);
• Paper, cardboard;
• Leaves from the fabric (optional).

In fact, this is the maximum list, and what will be needed in your case is determined by the type of the craft itself, its complexity and the way it is manufactured.

Work principles

From cotton pads, you can make one flower or an entire composition with your own hands: an application or a bulk bouquet. The starting material is used in white or color it in any color, drawing veins on the petals and making transitions of several shades.

The middle of the flowers and stems are made from the cotton buds that have been lowered into the paint. Beads and wire frame are also used. To give a green tinge to the stem, we use winding with colored strips, applying plasticine. Leaves can be cut from cotton pads, fabric, satin ribbons, made from salted dough, polymeric clay or taken ready from artificial flowers.

It is quite easy to work with cotton wheels. They can be bent, folded, cut the desired shape. Before starting the process, the material can be processed in starch. To connect the flower parts, its elements use threads, wire, thermo-gun or PVA glue.

Applique from cotton wool: flowers
(children's creativity)

This option is suitable as a lesson for making a gift to my mother. The guys can perform chamomiles, snowdrops or just abstract flowers. The work will consist of the following:

1. Take the base (colored cardboard, paper, plastic). It is better to apply the contours of the future bouquet.
2. Leaves and stems make of plasticine.
3. To make the petals of the snowdrop, it is better to make a stencil out of cardboard and cut out the necessary number of colors from the cotton pads. So, they will all be the same and neat. Camomile perform even easier. Enough cuts around the circle of the wadded disk.
4. Seredinku can be made from a cotton swab, the head of which is gouache, and the base is coated with plasticine. The same can be done from beads and wires.
5. In the cotton pad of the petals, make a slit for the cotton swab and insert it there.
6. Collect all the items based on. As a decoration, create a pot or vase in the form of applique from beans, beads, sequins, plasticine.

Original hand-made article: flowers made of cotton wool

Older children can easily cope with a voluminous composition. They know more colors and will be able to make petals of complex shapes. In such a bouquet of cotton pads can be:

• Callas;
• Poppies;
• Daffodils;
• Roses;
• Violas (pansies);
• Lilies.

You can make a bouquet from one species or combine several. For volumetric crafts you will need a bowl or a pot. It is easy to make in the papier-mache technique or use an unnecessary container, for example, a jar from under the cream. All other principles of operation correspond to those presented above.

Calla

This flower from cotton wool discs is made as follows:

1. Stain the cotton swab in yellow.
2. Fold the white circle in the shape of a flower. You can pre-cut it by making a sharpening.
3. Connect the wand to the workpiece from the disk. Using threads or wire, fasten them together.
4. The stalk is wrapped in a green ribbon or coated with clay.
5. Leaves and decorate at your own discretion.

Roses

The handmade "flowers from wadded disks" can look very natural. The main thing is to try to imitate the shape of the petals of the chosen plant. Naturalness gives and the corresponding shade. For roses, unpainted cotton wool disks are suitable. It will take more time, patience and the circles themselves-blanks. In this case, it is better to combine them with a thermo gun. Sepals can be made from fabric, fine decorative paper or satin ribbons.

Pansies

To make such a flower from a cotton disc, you must first paint them in the appropriate colors. As samples take pictures with realistic images. To create a shape, you have to trim the material. This is best done after joining the petals into the workpiece.

Daffodils

This flower from cotton wheels looks very nice and natural. To produce it, you need a few white circles, a photorealistic image sample, long strips of green paper to create the leaves. Plasticine in this case is not suitable. It is difficult to make a long, lanceolate, volumetric shape out of it.

Topiary

This is another original and fashionable souvenir that can be made from cotton wool. It is a ball on a stick in a pot and simulates the shape of a trimmed dwarf tree. As a basis, the ball, the papier-mache sphere, is taken. To her are glued the flowers made of cotton balls. They can be done by simply twisting white circles like cones, connecting several pieces or taking a calla as a sample, but making it not from one disc, but from several, stacked one on top of another. Another option - to make many roses and glue them on the surface of the ball. Discs can be pre-colored. Choose an additional decor according to your wish.

As you can see, it's not difficult to make beautiful flowers from ordinary cotton discs. Such an occupation can be an excellent version of children's creativity or a family hobby. Try to make any favorite option. You will definitely be satisfied with the result of your work.