The sweetest tree topper
Cute cardboard angel to top your Christmas tree—make from reusable materials!
Assemble this angel ornament from craft-box finds, old Christmas decorations, leftover cardboard, scraps of cardstock, ribbons, and lace.
Cardboard angel supplies
- assorted cardstock and cardboard, totaling at least the equivalent of one A3 paper sheet (around Tabloid size)
- two toilet paper or paper towel tubes
- a couple of skewers and a small wool yarn ball or jute or hemp twine for hair
- scissors
- a hot glue gun and a few hot glue sticks
- markers
- ribbons, cords, lace, embroidery floss, or other decorations
Tip! Use leftover wallpaper, paper bags, ribbon and string scraps, odd earrings, single beads, sequins, and buttons as crafting materials.
Cardboard angel crafting instructions:
- Dampen the string or wool yarn. Wrap it tightly around a couple of skewers, squeeze out the water, and leave it to dry.
- Draw the angel’s head and face on cardboard and cut it out. Draw a pair of wings on cardstock, cut them out, and fold them vertically down the center. If the cardstock isn’t sturdy enough to hold its shape, reinforce the wings by gluing on a second layer of cardstock.
- Roll a cone from cardstock for the angel’s dress and two smaller cones for the sleeves. Make the sleeves closed cones, and leave a finger-width opening at the narrow end of the dress cone for the neckline. Use hot glue to secure the seams.
- Decorate the wings, sleeves, and dress with markers, and use hot glue to attach ribbons, lace, and other ornaments. Glue the sleeves to the sides of the dress and the wings to the back along the fold.
- Cut one of the cardboard tubes open lengthwise and roll it into a smaller tube—just slim enough to slip into the dress’s neckline—as the angel’s neck. Glue the neck into the neckline so that half of it sits inside the dress and half outside.
- Glue the face on top of the neck, and glue the intact cardboard tube by its upper edge inside the dress around the neck to act as the holder for the tree topper.
- Unwrap the dried string from around the skewers, arrange it as hair around and behind the face, and glue it in place. Finish the hair with a sequin or ribbon headband, and tie a bow from decorative ribbon and glue it to the angel’s neck.
Tip! You can speed up the curling of the string hair by blow-drying, or by drying the string wrapped around the skewer in a low-temperature oven.
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