Making your own paper Christmas angels using templates

In anticipation of the festive holiday, people decorate their homes with beautiful Christmas tree decorations. Angels are an important attribute of Christmas and New Year. Preparing for the holiday, people choose figurines and pictures with their images.

What paper, cardboard is better to use

The most convenient and simple material for making an angel figurine is ordinary paper. You can create a real masterpiece from it.

It is recommended to prepare several types of paper:

• velvet, embossed, corrugated, colored;
• office A4 format;
• cardboard (white and colored);
• openwork paper napkins.

You can use quilling kits (rolled paper strips). They will come in handy for creating additional small decorations. Double-sided colored paper will come in handy.

The angel may not only be white. Pastel-colored figures will look very gentle: blue, pink, lilac, light green, cream, beige, etc. Bright colors are best used for garlands, not for individual toys.

What else will you need during the work process?

For work, you need to prepare a few more items. You can use improvised materials. From them, each person will be able to make an easy and beautiful craft.

Tools required:

• office scissors;
• PVA glue or glue stick;
• eraser;
• simple pencil;
• felt-tip pens for coloring;
• thread for hanging toys on the Christmas tree.

A Christmas angel will always look touching and solemn. It can be molded from plasticine or clay, crocheted or sewn from fabric using a pattern.

Many needlewomen make angels from polymer clay. This material is easy to work with: it is easily creased, but hardens well and holds its shape for a long time.

Paper angels will look good on a dark background. For example, you can attach flat figures cut out of cardboard to a black fabric symbolizing the night sky. This fabric can be used to curtain a wall or a window.

Easy Angel Templates for Preschoolers

The craft "Angel" is often made by children in kindergarten. This activity trains the fine motor skills of a five-year-old child and develops his sense of beauty.

You can find a variety of angel drawings with templates for cutting and stencils for coloring on the Internet. Among them are both single silhouettes of angels and entire garlands. Very often, the template is also a coloring book: the drawing is first colored with felt-tip pens or colored pencils, and then cut out with scissors.

You need to print and cut out the angel template. Then, along the outline, this template is redrawn onto paper or cardboard, and then carefully cut out.

Some examples use a stencil: paint should be applied to the paper through the holes. Then you will get a great picture.

A preschooler will enjoy cutting out beautiful figures from paper and decorating a room with them for the New Year. The child will be helped in his work by diagrams, stencils and templates, as well as step-by-step instructions.

DIY Christmas Angel: Cutting Templates

Older children, schoolchildren and adults can create more complex and detailed figures and drawings. DIY Christmas angels will create a joyful mood.

Small scissors with rounded ends are the most convenient tool for work. With their help, you can beautifully cut out even small and complex details.

Many children do not know the difference between a template and a stencil.

• The outline of the template must be transferred onto paper, and then the figure must be cut out along this outline.
• The stencil is a piece of cardboard or board with a figure cut out inside. This figure also needs to be redrawn onto paper, and then painted or cut out.

Using a stencil, you can draw the outlines evenly because the pencil rests on the board.

You can attach a thread to the cut-out cardboard angels and hang them on the New Year tree next to the toys. It is better to decorate a window, door or hang it on the wall with a garland. It will look much more interesting than ordinary tinsel.

How to make a three-dimensional angel out of paper step by step

A magnificent figurine can be created from the simplest materials, for example, from paper. Even a novice needlewoman can cope with this task: all that is required from her is accuracy. From several parts you can assemble a three-dimensional angel.

Materials for crafts:

• white paper;
• colored paper;
• scissors;
• glue;
• beads or beads.

Many people try to learn how to make an angel out of paper. You will have to be attentive and careful, and also work a little.

Master class:

1. Fold a sheet of white paper like an accordion. Start from the narrow side. The folds should be narrow.
2. The edges need to be folded together and glued. You will get a small tube.
3. Grease the top with glue and carefully connect the edges to form a cone without a bottom. This is a skirt.
4. The wing is a paired part, so they are cut out of a folded sheet of paper. In this craft, the angel will have several pairs of wings. You need to take the templates and transfer them to paper. There should be 5 double parts in total. Pairs of wings need to be placed one inside the other. Smaller wings are glued to the middle of the largest pair and so on to the end: to the smallest pair.
5. You need to cut out a lot of small flowers or stars from colored paper. You can cut out any figures, but they need to be small.
6. Glue these little figures to the skirt. Additionally, they need to be decorated with beads, sequins or glitter.
7. Cut out the girl's face in profile, body and hand with a candle using the template. Glue the wings to the angel's back.

You will get a delicate airy figurine that can be placed on the New Year's table or under the tree. A do-it-yourself paper angel is a craft that anyone can make.

DIY New Year's Angel Figurine

An interesting master class will allow everyone to make an elegant angel figurine with their own hands. For this you will need two lacy napkins, a beautiful golden thread (twine or iris) and a little patience.

Step-by-step master class (MK) for beginners:

1. Fold one napkin and glue it together to form an even cone.
2. Cut the second napkin into 6 pieces.
3. Also fold the two small parts and make two cones out of them. These are the arms.
4. Leave the other pair of small parts unchanged. These are the wings.
5. It remains to make the head. Roll one of the remaining small pieces into a round ball and wrap it in the second piece (the last one).
6. Glue the head to the top pointed part of the large cone.
7. Glue the arms on the side and the wings on the back.
8. Tie a golden thread around the angel’s head, then pass its ends under the wings and arms.
9. Secure the ends of the thread under the wings so that they are not visible.

Instead of napkins, you can take two round pieces of corrugated paper. Some craftsmen glue colored paper or pieces of foil to the bottom of the cone. A large white bead can replace the paper ball, but it must be well secured.

If the napkin is too soft, you need to make a frame for a large cone (skirt). You will need hard copper wire. It needs to be rolled into a triangle of the appropriate size.

Paper angel accordion

One of the simplest crafts is an angel made of accordion-folded paper. It will perfectly decorate a room and a New Year tree. Even a preschool child can fold such an angel. Children will easily remember how to make an angel out of paper.

What you will need for work:

• 3 sheets of paper, size A4 or A5 - white or soft pastel colors;
• scissors;
• glue stick.

Step by step instructions:

1. Place the sheet of paper vertically (with the narrow side facing you). The accordion should be folded from the bottom.
2. Fold a small fold upwards. Then turn the sheet over to the other side and fold again.
3. Fold the accordion to the end of the sheet.
4. Fold the second sheet of paper in the same way like an accordion.
5. Measure about one third of the length of the accordion and bend it. Repeat this on the second piece.
6. From the third sheet you need to cut out a small circle and cut it in half.
7. Fold it like an accordion, starting from the base (straight line) to the circle.
8. Fold the semicircle in half and glue the touching ends together. You should get an oval.
9. Take two accordion-folded blanks and turn them with their sharp ends facing each other, then glue their lower parts along the edges.
10. Glue the oval (the angel's head) to the fold of the two pieces. You need to hold the product with your finger for a little while so that all the parts stick together well.
11. The thread can be attached to the head or to the waist (the narrow place where all the parts are connected).

These elegant figures can be hung on the tree or hung around the room. If there is no free space, you can carefully attach it to the wall with a pin.

The angel will turn out very beautiful if you use lacy paper napkins instead of paper.

A do-it-yourself Christmas angel will be a wonderful gift and decoration for a festive evening. A bright unearthly creature will protect the whole family. Making such an ornament will not take much time and will not require great skill from a person. Anyone can make a New Year's figurine.