Colored Cotton |
Colored cotton can be used as a substitute for pompoms. They're also great for making fake hair, fur, or even for creating some fluffy tree tops and bushes in your craft projects.
Materials Needed
- Cotton
- Food coloring
- Spray bottle
- Basin
- Newspapers
Steps
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1. | Fill up a spray bottle with water. | |
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2. | Add several drops of food coloring until the solution turns into a deep hue. Cotton tends to absorb the colors slowly, so the stronger the color hue, the easier it is for the cotton to attain the desired color. | |
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3. | Screw on the lid tightly and swirl the bottle to mix the colored solution. | |
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4. | Loosen cotton into thin wisps and place them in a basin. | |
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5. | Spray with the food coloring solution until the cotton is evenly colored. | |
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6. | Let the cotton soak in the colors for 1 hour or more. | |
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7. | Spread the colored cotton in newspapers to dry overnight. | |
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8. | Once the colored cotton dries, it will tend to be compacted. Fluff it up again by loosening up the fibers. | |
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9. | You can use colored cotton in a lot of your craft projects. Roll them into balls to use them as a substitute to pompoms. | |
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Swaths of these colored fuzzies can be used to make "hair" for characters or "fur" for animals in your art projects . They can also be turned into "tree tops", "grass" or "clouds" in a landscape picture or collage. | ||
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