Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Easy Flower Angel Craft

Flower angels are pretty, and so easy to make:

Supplies:

Silk roses - any color, but we like white, pink or burgundy
Wooden bead head
Doll hair - any color you choose
Glitter chanille stems, or other material that can be used as a halo
Netting or wide ribbon to be used for wings
Narrow ribbon, pearl or gold bead strings, or whatever suits for decorations
Craft glue

Instructions:

The body of the angel is a rose turned upside down (we use two roses fitted together...pull the rose petals off one rose and feed them onto the stem of another rose, to make the dress fuller). Cut the stem, but leave enough so that you can feed a bead onto it. Fill the bead head with craft glue and insert the stem. Cut enough doll hair to cover the bead. Curl the hair by pulling a butter knive through it. Glue to bead head. Form a halo from the chanille stem and glue to hair. Make wings from netting (or make bow from ribbon) and glue to back of angel, just under the head.

These angels are nice on the Christmas tree, or as Christmas package decorations. They also make great last-minute token gifts, or Christmas ornament exchange gifts.

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