Handmade Angel - original decorating ideas for children from paper, thread, dough, ribbons, cardboard

Pre-holiday worries about decorating the house for Christmas and New Year's Eve are great to lift your spirits, because you give your loved ones comfort and magical impressions.

One of the popular Christmas symbols, which serves as a decoration and a gift, is an angel. Such cute creatures are not only nice to get as a gift, but it is doubly nice to create them with your own hands.

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Angel Symbolism

Since ancient times, angel figures have been considered symbols of protection, benevolence and support of divine power.

The image of the pacifying messenger of heaven with delicate wings exists in almost all cultures of the world as an embodiment of chastity, purity and is used as a talisman against adverse influences.

Materials and Instruments

Thanks to the imagination and practicality of enthusiastic craftsmen, who will find the use of the most different things and even discarded material, the basis for the handmade Christmas angel can be different materials.

It can be both plain paper and lace, and even ice cream sticks.

Such beauty can be created with the most common scissors, glue and needle.

Ideas for handmade angel crafts

Simply white angels, made from a template - the simplest version of such a handicraft. And if you add ribbons, bright flowers, sequins and other decorations, it will give your creation originality and attractiveness.

If you start with such simple ideas, you can gradually move on to making angels using more complex techniques.

With thread

Well mastered the technique of braiding and making knots, you can decorate such angels and Christmas tree, and the apartment interior.

For durability of such a souvenir, you should tie all the knots 2 times.

What you will need:

cardboard;
yarn;
lace or organza for the wings;
glue;
Decorations (rain, snowflakes, etc.);
silver braid.

Work process:

On a 5.5×8.5 cm rectangular piece of cardboard (or plastic card), wrap several layers of thread. Cut them from the bottom.
The resulting long strand is divided into three parts: 9 strands - for the arms of the angel, 8 - for the ties, the rest - for the body with the head.
Tie the last bundle in the middle and fold in half. Tie at the neck, separating the head from the body.
Braid a bunch of 9 threads into a braid, roll up into a ring and tie it off. Carefully cut off excess threads. Pass the ring through the middle of the body and tie at the waist.
To form palms on the arms tie the middle of the ring with a thread, so that the palms were raised up as a prayer. Pass the ends around the waist and fasten to the back, so that the palms do not fall down.
Glue together a 2.5 cm diameter cardboard circle into a cone. Insert it for balance under the skirt and glue it inside to the waist. Trim the bottom of the skirt.
On the head tie a halo of silver ribbon.
To make hair wind a piece of cardboard 3x4 cm thread, cut on one side. In the middle to intercept the thread. Glue the hair on the head of the angel.
The bottom edge of the skirt can be decorated with silver braid.
From the lace cut a rectangular piece of 6x3 cm. Tie in the middle with a thread, like a bow. Glue the wings to the back of the angel.

Made of salt dough

What you need:

flour of the highest grade,
Photo frames 3 pcs.
mortar,
water;
Extra salt,
patterned knife,
paper napkins,
garlic peeler,
brush,
glass of water,
leaf cutter.

Step-by-step instructions:

Knead salt dough. To do this, mix well 1 cup of salt and 2 cups of flour. Pour 1.5 cups of cool water. Knead the dough, put it in a bag to prevent it from drying out.
Roll out the dough 2-3 mm thick. Cut out 2 leaves with a "leaf" cookie cutter, put it on a napkin.
Using a stack cut leaves like feathers on wings.
Using a patterned knife, cut out a circle of dough 3-4 mm thick. Fold edges inward to form a dress. Wet the wings with water and glue to the back of the dress. All dough elements should be glued together with water. Use the blank base of a ballpoint pen to stamp patterns around the edge of the dress.
Roll out a round lump of dough - the head, glue it to the dress on top.
Use a pen to make eyes. Glue a tiny nose.
Roll two flagella - handles, glue to the dress.
Through a garlic crusher from a lump of dough to squeeze out the flagella - hair. Cut with a stecker to the desired length, glue on the head.
Cut flowers from dough 2-3 mm thick, using a punch. Put a bouquet of daisies in the hands of an angel.
Let dry for 5-6 days, paint and gloss. Fix angel in frame.

From ribbons.

What you will need:

white satin ribbon - 12 pieces of 5x5 cm, 12 pieces of 2.5x2.5 cm; 6 pieces of 4x4 cm; ;
gold brocade - 12 pieces 5x5 cm;
Beads with a diameter of 6 mm - 12 pieces;
15 mm beads - 2 pcs;
hugger-bell of gold color;
half-bead with a diameter of 8 mm transparent ;
lace in gold color.

Instructions for making:

The angel is created from simple and double pointed kanzashi petals. Ribbon should preferably be cut with a heat cutter so that you don't have to work the ends with a lighter or a candle.
To make one double petal, take two pieces each of white ribbon and gold brocade 5x5 cm. All segments folded diagonally, in the form of triangles, the ends soldered together. Then fold again and solder again. 2 finished triangles fold together (the gold top), the edges together. The ends trim, solder. The bottom petal cut smoothly (not slanted!), treat with fire and fasten with tweezers.
You need to prepare 12 such petals. To glue them together, apply glue to the side of the petal and glue the next petal. Similarly, glue the remaining six petals. Connect both halves in the form of a pyramid. We get the bottom row of dresses.
Petals can be decorated with 6 mm beads (glued or sewn).
The top tier of the dress will also consist of 12 petals. The pyramid is also prepared, but from simple white petals 2.5x2.5 cm.
Connect the two pyramids to each other with hot glue.
Gold cord, 20 cm long, fold into two equal parts and two edges to slip into a bead, and then into a hugger-bell.
Glue the ends of the cord together and slip it into the center of the pyramid. Glue the cord under the bell.
Make the wing from three simple pointed petals, made from pieces of white satin ribbon 4x4 cm. The only difference will be that the bottom must be trimmed at an angle, the ends do not solder.
Glue together 2 petals. The third glue between them, applying glue to the edges at the base. In the same way to make another.
Lift the bead, glue on the bell and cord, and petals on both sides. Put glue on the bottom of the beads, glue to the wings.
Hide the glue spot by gluing a clear half bead.

Made of fabric.

What you will need:

Some 19x25 cm thick fabric;
2 pieces of tulle 11x11 cm and 13x8 cm;
yarn of any color;
scissors.

Workflow:

Roll both sides of the dense fabric of any color in the middle in thick strips.
Fold in half lengthwise to make a tube.
Yarn stack in the center of the tube.
Fold it in half.
Tie the yarn at the base, making a loop, cut off the excess.
For the head of the angel with a long yarn to tie both parts of the tube. Do not cut the yarn, it will be useful for the arms and wings.
From a transparent cloth roll up a tube. Step back a centimeter from the edge of the two sides tie it with thread, cut off the excess.
Between the two halves of the workpiece for the head put the hands of an angel.
The remnants of thread to form the head attach the hands. On the back of the thread to put under the arms on both sides.
Turn the handicraft, at the waist on the front under the arms cross thread, turn again and tie a knot in the back. Do not cut the remaining thread.
Fold another piece of transparent fabric into a triangle shape. Then, starting from the top, fold the fabric into an accordion shape to get the wings. In the middle pull the accordion with thread, so that it does not disintegrate when attaching the wings to the angel.
Attach the wings to the back. Thread from the waist up to the neck.
Cross the thread and wrap it around the neck, again crossing the ends. Turn over and tie a knot in the back. Cut the thread.
On the head put a halo of yellow thread, make out a face (you can leave a face).

From cardboard

What you will need:

colored paper;
white cardboard;
white paper;
scissors;
beads or beads;
glue;
Cardboard template of the face and half of the torso with the hand in profile.

Let's get to work:

Fold over the width in the form of an accordion in narrow folds of white cardboard.
The edges of the accordion glue together. Out corrugated tube.
On top of her apply glue, carefully glue the edges. It turns cone - skirt.
A sheet of paper to fold in half, draw the inner side of the wing to the fold. Cut, unfold, obtain 2 identical wings.
Make 5 such double wings, decreasing in size. Then put them into each other.
From colored paper cut small flowers or stars. Glue them to the skirt. Fix beads, beads or sequins in the middle of them with glue.
Using a template, cut out the girl's face in profile, the torso with a candle in hand. On her back, glue multilayered wings.

From colored paper

What you will need:

colored foil,
colored paper,
New Year's raindrops,
glue-pencil,
scissors.

Workflow:

A sheet of A4 fold in half, we get 2 rectangles.
From one rectangle fold an accordion with an odd number of folds.
To get the beautiful teeth, you must cut both sides obliquely.
At the middle fold on both sides make incisions.
Bend the wings, shorten the middle fold.
Cut out two circles for the head.
To one glue a loop of rain.
Glue the head to the body, glue the links. Slightly straighten the folds, decorate with stars.

Made of corrugated paper

What you will need:

corrugated paper;
wire (for the frame);
organza;
acrylic paint;
brush;
bead (for the head);
PVA;
gold sequins;
heavy foil;
white outline;
toothpicks;
scissors;
tweezers;
Moment glue.

Let's start working on the craft:

Make a frame of a man of wire with a head of beads. Above his head - a ring-nimbus. Let's put the angel in a ball with a diameter of 6 cm, so the frame will be 3.5 cm long. We will paint it with flesh-colored acrylic (whitewash + red + ochre) in several layers.
For clothes, we will take a strip of corrugated paper 15 cm long and 3 cm wide. Let's paint one edge with gold color acrylic. When it dries, put a little PVA glue on the end of the paper and dip it in gold sequins. From the paper strip cut off 1.5 cm for the sleeves and 9 cm for the dress. Also decorate the halo with sequins.
Cut the sleeves to the right length. Glue them together lengthwise. As they dry, put them together a little, put them on the handle of the frame. Dab the glue at the base, press it with tweezers to hold it in place.
Do the same with the dress. Make a couple of cuts for the sleeves. Let's put the dress on the frame, but first glue it where the hands are.
When it dries, attach the dress to the frame with glue, simultaneously forming folds. In them we will hide the main place of gluing. Tie everything up with a wire until it dries.
Let's remove the wire. Tie an angel with fishing line to strengthen the wings and hang the figurine in a ball. Let us leave 15-20 cm of thread. A bead for the head is covered with gold sequins.
Draw the wings on a piece of paper folded in half. On top of the finished image we put organza. Fold 10 cm of wire in half, twisting a loop in the middle. Spread the wire around the contour of the wings.
Glue the wire with Moment glue on the organza according to the template. White outline drawing, sprinkle with glitter. When the glue dries, cut out the wings according to the outline drawing.
Stitch the wings with thread, tying the figure, through a loop of wire, making knots and securing them with glue. Cut off one end. To make the wings hold tighter, before sewing them on, you need to drop glue on the joint.
From heavy foil cut a quarter circle (0.8 cm radius). Screw the blank on a toothpick until you get an even narrow cone. Glue the resulting cone to the arms of the angel, using a tiny drop of Moment glue.
To put a cute creature in a glass ball, you need to fold the clothes of an angel, fold the wings into a tube, raise the hands with the cone and put the angel into the ball.
Carefully straighten the wings with tweezers, put the hands in their original position. With a toothpick to open the hem of the dress, etc.
Now put a hat on the balloon. Let's hang the angel on the Christmas tree.

Made of felt

What we will need:

felt dense white;
felt thin in different colors;
sewing threads;
ribbon;
needle;
pins;
scissors.

Workflow:

Draw templates and cut out templates: white felt - the body with the head, blue - wings, pink - dress, soft pink - face, hands and feet, orange - candle, yellow - candle light and halo, brown - hair.
Trim the edges of the wings, staple with pins, stitch.
Arrange the head on white felt, sew on, embroider eyes.
Embroider small straight stitches nose.
Attach a dress to cover the bottom of the legs and top - the neck. Secure with pins, sew on.
Attach small stitches hair.
Attach the hands on the dress, trim the edges, sew.
Sew a candle with blue thread, light - yellow.
On the head fix a halo.
On the wrong side sew a loop of ribbon.

Made of beads.

What you will need:

large beads of different colors,
A large white bead;
scissors;
wire.

Workflow:

Cut a 50 cm piece of wire, thread 11 blue beads onto it. Insert the wire into the hole of a large white bead on both sides, pull it up to the blue beads, twist the wire 2-3 times.
Dial 10 beads onto the first wire. Lift the final bead up, twist the wire near the 9th bead. Dial 10 beads again.
Repeat the same set of beads on the other wire.
Form the wings, pull up the beads, loop the wire around the beads near the head.
Thread the wire into a medium-sized bead on both sides toward (parallel weave). Pull the bead closer to the wings.
For the handles on both wires to dial 6 beads of blue and 3 beads of white. Leave the white ones loose, and pull the wire through the blue ones and up. Do the same on the other wire.
With the help of parallel weaving technology to make a dress angel. Collect 2 beads and tighten well. Type 3, then 4. Make six such rows.
Set the bottom edge of the dress with small size pearl beads. Dial 14 pieces on one wire. Pull up to the other end of the dress and twist. Cut off the extra ends of the wire, mask from the wrong side.

Crocheted

What will be needed:

white and pink yarn;
sintepon;
crochet;
needle.

Now let's get to work:

For the head, type in 2 stitches and knit one row into one stitch. Connect 6 stitches without a stitch (hereinafter "sts").
Next, in these 6 loops, knit 2 stsb, and in the next row by 1 stsb. And another such row.
Then circle 3 more rows, making redundancies. Tie 1sbn, and the next two tie together. So knit a complete row, making 2 gaps.
Connect 1 row of 2 double stitches (hereafter ss) in each stitch.
Then knit 3 stitches, 2 more. Skip 1 stitch at the base. Knit 1 st and make 2 stitches (hereinafter "sts"). Skip a stitch in the base, knit 1 stn. So knit sts through 1 stitch, and between them - 2 stitches.
In the next row, knit 3 sts under the sts. Then make 1 st and again 3 sts under the next stitch. So knit 6 rows.
Tie the dress with pink yarn. Attach a thread under the std and knit 3 sts under it. In sts knit 1 stn.
For the wing make a slip loop. In it perform 4 sts. First stn make 3 sts of the lift. Between each stn make 1 st.
Next, in the gap between sts, turning the blank, make 2 sts, 1 np and 2 more sts.
Unfold the knitting, take 4 sts. Knit sts under the sts of the bottom row. Repeat. Knit the final st in the last st of the bottom row.
Tie with pink yarn.
Tie in the arches of 2 sts, 3 ns and again 2 sts.
In the same way to knit another wing for the angel. Sew them on.
From pink yarn to gather a chain of stitches for the headband.

Original Creations

Unique angels for Christmas are made from a variety of materials. The more unusual they are, the more original the souvenir.

From absorbent cotton disks

What you will need:

4 cotton disks;
PVA glue;
white thread;
scissors;
sequins, beads, etc.

Workflow:

Open 1 cotton disk and remove all the cotton from it.
Crumple it into a ball and put it on the other cotton disc, wrap it like a head, fasten with string.
On top of the third cotton disk apply glue, glue the ends of the thread, rolled up in a loop, then the head of the angel. Wrap the disk around the head at the neck, fasten with glue.
The fourth cotton disk cut in half. Glue the halves of the angel on the back.
Decorate it with decorations.

From a napkin.

What you will need:

Large white openwork napkins;
glue;
scissors;
toothpick;
white plasticine.

Instructions:

Cut 1 napkin into two equal parts and then another in half.
From the other napkin cut a thin strip.
The remaining large piece roll into a cone, glue.
From the quarters also roll cones, glue.
Glue the sleeves to the large cone.
From the remaining half of the napkin roll up an accordion, then spread the wings and glue them to the torso.
Glue a toothpick into the top hole of the large cone.
Roll a ball of plasticine of desired size and glue it to the toothpick.
From a strip of tissue to make a halo, attach it to the top.

From a bottle.

What you will need:

nail polish remover plastic bottle;
kapron stocking;
absorbent cotton;
lace;
cardboard;
2 black beads;
thread;
PVA glue;
mold-heart from a box of chocolates.

Workflow:

Form a ball of absorbent cotton.
Tape it with threads to the top of the bottle.
Wrap a piece of kapron, fasten the threads.
Sew on eyes, beads.
For hair cut a piece of kapron stocking fringe.
Wings and arms cut from white cardboard, nimbus from gold. Decorate the hands with lace.
Glue wings, hands, glue plastic bottle with lace.
Paint the heart with red lacquer and glue.

Quilting Technique

What you'll need:

white quilling strips;
quilling template;
twisting tool;
PVA glue.

Instructions:

For the angel skirt, first glue 3 strips together. Twist them, put in a template "30", remove the tip fix with glue. The resulting round blanks with fingers to squeeze on one side, making it into a drop. Make 3 such blanks, put them aside.
For the body glue 2 strips, twist them to pattern "20". Secure the tip with glue, squeeze with fingers on both sides.
Glue together the elements of the skirt, fix the body on top.
Wings of an angel to make 2 circles of 2 strips. Squeeze them to one side, a little bend. Glue them on the sides of the body.
For the head of an angel from 2 strips to form a circle of "15". For the hair 2/3 stripes twist on both sides. Fix them on the head.
Connect the body to the head.

From the book pages.

For the angel's wings, fold a few sheets at the beginning of the book from the bottom corner of the book into the spine and the same number at the end, using about 1/4 of the total number of sheets.
For the dress, fold all the other sheets of the book from the top corner down into the spine.
For the wings, paint both inside sides of the cover with any color.
For the head, a Styrofoam ball or a wooden ball on which navy-colored kapron is stretched and tied with a knot at the bottom will come in handy.
Glue the hair from the yarn with a glue gun.
Attach the head to the book torso. The face of the angel can be designed as desired.
Make a collar of three layers of white lace, glue to the spine of the book.

From macaroni.

Using PVA glue, combine 4 feather macaroni.
Then on the upper third of the resulting figure glue macaroni - a shell convex side up.
From the shells of another color glue 2 wings to an angel.
Make hands out of curly macaroni.
Make hair out of 6 yellow peas.
Paint the blank with white acrylic, decorate the face, and attach a star to the hands.

Using feathers.

Using thread, fasten a large bead on the tip of a large white fluffy feather.
Glue on hair, and draw eyes and lips.
Cut wings out of paper, glue them to the feather.
Decorate the angel with rhinestones.

From egg cartons

What you will need:

egg carton;
beads;
braid;
thread;
small buttons;
scissors;
glue.

Step by step instructions:

Cut a cone from the packaging.
Cut thread 25 cm, fold in half, put it through the hole in the cone.
Thread the ends of the thread through the button, tie a loop on it.
Pull out the loop completely.
Glue the beads, put the loop through them.
Paint and glue wings, glue lace to dress.
For hair, make a small skein of thread, tie it in the center, put the loop you tied earlier through it, glue the hair on the head.
Make a wreath out of braid.

From ice cream sticks.

For the body, take four 11 cm long popsicle sticks. Cut off one edge from each stick.
Grease the edges of one stick with glue, put the edges of 2 more sticks, form the front of the body. Allow to dry.
From two sticks cut arms length 7cm, width thinner than the base, round edges. From the remaining parts in the same way to cut legs 4cm, glue them to the body from behind.
Templates for wings and head 2 parts each to transfer to white cardboard, cut out. Glue the wings on the back. Attach a small piece of a stick like a neck. It will hold the head and a loop of ribbon to hang the angel.
From the threads of mouliné on the head glue the hair. Make eyes and mouth for the angel. Glue parts of the head together, except for the place for the neck.
The remnants of the fourth stick to cover the joints of wings and legs. Paint the body and arms with white gouache. Allow to dry.
Glue the hands and head to the body, draw shoes on the feet, put a star in the hands of the angel.