Paper Angel Craft

This simple paper angel craft can help your child practice cutting out circles. Use my free downloadable template to help your child create large and small paper angels for the Christmas tree or for pretty table decorations.

Not suitable for little ones owing to the beads and scissors used.

• What you will need
• Instructions
• More Christmas scissor activities
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You will need:

• Angel templates printed on white cardstock (get your free printable from this page)
  
• age-appropriate scissors for your child
• glue / paste
• A small piece of chenille stem/pipe cleaner^#Ad for each angel (I used a quarter of a stem per angel)
• A bead suitable for the head of each angel - you can draw faces on plain beads^#Ad, or use beads with faces already drawn^#Ad

Optional:

• crayons to decorate the angels.
• a bell to hang inside the angel

Supplies needed

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Paper Angel Craft Instructions

Step 1: Cut Out The Circles

It is optional to decorate the circles, but my kids loved it. Plain white angels are equally attractive!

Once they are decorated, have your child cut out the circles and then cut out the wings on the light lines.

Cut out the circles as shown

You may need to help younger kids. View this page for tips on teaching your child to cut with scissors.

Step 2: Glue Edges Together To Make The Body

Apply glue to one of the cut edges as shown.

Fold one cut edge over the glued cut edge. The body of the angel will look like this, with a tiny hole at the top.

Apply glue

Overlap the edges

Completed body

Step 3: Glue Wings To Body

You need to apply the glue to the decorated side and apply the wings so the decorated sides face forwards.

Apply glue

Attach the wings

Front view

Step 4: Thread The Chenille Stems Through The Neck

Cut the chenille stems into quarters, and use one quarter per angel.

Thread the chenille stems through the neck hole, from inside the "skirt".

Cut chenille stems

Thread the stems through

Make a loop or attach a bell

Make a loop to stop the stick from passing right through, or attach a little bell at the end.

Pull the rest of the chenille stick through at the top.

Step 5: Attach The Head

Thread a bead onto the head. Look for beads from broken necklaces, or wooden beads with painted faces from craft shops.

You can use beads with faces already drawn^#Ad, or draw your own face onto a plain bead^#Ad.

The stem pokes though

Thread a bead "head" onto the chenille stem

Smush the stem to make a halo

Wrap the chenille stick around a pencil to make a loop and smush it onto the angel's head for a halo effect.

It's fine if a bit of stick pokes out - use it to hang the angel on the tree.

The finished angels. So sweet, and by far the easiest paper angels I have made with or without my kids!

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More Christmas Paper Craft & Scissor Activities

This paper angel craft is one of 17 different activities you can find in my pack of Christmas Scissor Cutting Printables - lots of photographed instructions and templates for each activity!

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Some of the paper crafts!

Some of the printable templates!

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I hope you have lots of fun making these simple paper angels this Christmas!

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