Our Christmas trees went up a couple of weeks ago - one main one in the
lounge which I am particularly precious about, and a slightly smaller
and much cheaper one in the playroom that the children get to choose the
decorations for and decorate themselves. Both, however, needed an
angel for the top of them, so this week we have been making them.
I got together a mass of general craft equipment, including shiny and coloured card. Quick thank you to my cousin who threw out a lot of this stuff and passed it on to us.
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| Selection of craft material (aka a pile of rubbish) |
We also needed two toilet roll middles
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| In case you don't use toilets and therefore don't know what a toilet roll middle looks like |
The kids chose the colours for their angels' dresses, and I cut out some U shapes, the width being the same as the length of the cardboard roll
So then, they wrapped the card around the tube to make a dress. We stuck it with tape and put some PVA glue around the top to hold the tube to the 'dress'
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| It needed a slight trim to make the bottom even, but otherwise pretty good! |
Next thing we needed a head, the kids chose some pink card we had (this was from my cousin's stuff, thank you Rachel!) and cut a circle for the head, with a 'neck' the same width as the inside of the cardboard tube.
Once the head was decorated with a face etc, we put it in the top of the tube and stuffed either side with cotton wool to hold it upright
After that we needed to think about wings. The kids chose gold and a ridged silver which I cut into semi circles (sort of) for them
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| It's easiest to hold them against the back of the angel to get an idea of what size you want |
Once the kids were happy with where they were positioned they stapled them in place and ta da! Finished angels!
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| A finished angel. |
Lastly, we needed to put them on the Christmas trees, so this is angel one on the children's tree:
And this is angel 2 on the main Christmas tree:
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