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Here's a wonderful project to make for Christmas. They're very easy and the children will love the fact that they have created something they can hang on their tree.
Make more than one and you can have fun dressing them differently and giving each their own unique personality. Hang them in windows as well as on the tree or string them together on tinsel to create a marvellous wall hanging. Best of all, they're incredibly cheap to make, especially if you have old bath or shower puffs on hand. You'll need:
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1. Paint clothespins (top part skin colored, bottom part white, with accents as desired). Dot pink for cheeks, brown or red for lips, and black for eyes. Use a marker for the eyes.
2. Let clothespins dry. Use a piece of recycled cardboard (like from a cereal box) and accordion fold it to make a drying rack for the clothespins. This helps stop them from rolling around. Important to keep the faces from smudging!
2. Let clothespins dry. Use a piece of recycled cardboard (like from a cereal box) and accordion fold it to make a drying rack for the clothespins. This helps stop them from rolling around. Important to keep the faces from smudging!
3. Cut string that is holding shower puff into shape, and unravel the netting. Cut a piece of netting that's about 25-30 cams long.
4. Cut pipecleaner in half. Fold netting edges in toward the center of the netting and secure like a bow with the pipecleaner. Twist pipecleaner securely, and leave long pieces extending. You will be able to use pipecleaners like twisty ties to attach ornament to Christmas tree, or wreath or wall hanging, etc.
5. When painted clothespin is dry, hot glue wings to back of clothespin.
6. To make hair, wrap yarn around your hand about ten times. Tie down center of wrapped yarn (as for making a pom-pom). Clip loops. Hot glue on clothespin.
7. Cut a short length of yellow pipecleaner and wrap it around your finger to make halo. Hot glue onto hair.
4. Cut pipecleaner in half. Fold netting edges in toward the center of the netting and secure like a bow with the pipecleaner. Twist pipecleaner securely, and leave long pieces extending. You will be able to use pipecleaners like twisty ties to attach ornament to Christmas tree, or wreath or wall hanging, etc.
5. When painted clothespin is dry, hot glue wings to back of clothespin.
6. To make hair, wrap yarn around your hand about ten times. Tie down center of wrapped yarn (as for making a pom-pom). Clip loops. Hot glue on clothespin.
7. Cut a short length of yellow pipecleaner and wrap it around your finger to make halo. Hot glue onto hair.
8. Now have fun dressing your angels in different ways. There is no limit to what you can do with more netting as a skirt or perhaps some scraps of material, sequins, glitter or whatever you have to hand.
