The weeks before the long-awaited Christmas are the perfect opportunity to spend more time with your family. Whether it's baking cookies, watching Christmas movies or...decorate the apartment together, the memories that remain are forever. Are you looking for creative craft projects to keep the kids busy this Christmas? For example, you can make enchanting angels from natural materials! The children will absolutely love these cute ideas.
Children make angels out of pine cones and chestnuts
With a Christmas decoration in a natural lookTree decorations made from natural materialsa must for the Christmas tree. Pine cone angels are an adorable natural Christmas craft for kids. These tree pendants are simple, cute, and fun for crafters of all ages. The best thing about it is that it requires very little material, most of which you can find on a walk in nature.
What you need:
- Chestnuts
- Pine cones
- The maple seed
- silver pipe cleaners
- Color
- Paint brush
- Hot glue gun
- String for hanging
And this is how it works:
After gathering the materials outside, use the hot glue gun to attach a chestnut to a pine cone. Attach 2 maple seeds to each side of the pine cone and fan them upward to create wings.
Using a toothpick or a very fine brush, paint a cute face on the chestnut.
Lastly, bend a small piece of silver pipe cleaner into a halo shape. Attach it to the back of the angel's head with hot glue. Your pine cone angel tree pendant is ready!
Tipp:So that the cones open, you need to let them dry completely. To speed up the process, place them on a baking tray and put it in the oven at 60°C for a few minutes. Keep an eye on the cones and once they have opened, remove them from the oven.
Make your own sweet Christmas angels out of cones, polymer clay and wire
You can use the cones of any coniferous tree to make these sweet Christmas angels. Now we'll show another idea for angels made of cones, using other materials for the head and wings.
You can use many different materials for the angel's head. The main thing is that the head has a round shape and can be glued to the bottom of the tenon. In this example, air-drying modeling clay was used and shaped into a ball.
If you cannot find a suitable natural material for the angel wings, you can also make them from other materials. These instructions show how easy it is to make angel wings out of flexible wire. To make the wings even more eye-catching, cut out matching pieces of white baking paper and glue them to the back of the wings.
For the angel wings, children can also use feathers and glue them to the back of the cone
Or you can tie a bow out of raffia ribbon and use it to make wings
Make straw angels with children
Straw stars are a Christmas decorationwith a long tradition. You can also use the natural material to make beautiful angels with the children. We'll now show how it works.
Materials:
- Straws
- golden thread
- golden pipe cleaners
- Scissors
- Hot glue
Directions:
Soak the straws in water for about 4 hours.
Gather the straws into two bundles of ten and tie each bundle in the middle with a thread.
Fold a bunch of straws in half over a finger as shown in the picture.
Pull the thread tight and make a double knot. Tie the two ends of the thread together with a knot to form a loop for hanging.
Place the second bundle of straws for the wings between the folded bundle of straws.
Tie the thread around the connection in a square with a cross, as shown in the picture.
Cut the straws into an arc shape at the bottom and cut the wings at an angle, with the shortest straw at the bottom.
Cut a small piece of pipe cleaner for the halo. Glue it together and thread it onto the doubled piece of thread (the loop) to hang.
DIY cute angels for the Christmas tree made of shells
Did you collect shells on the beach with the children in the summer? Then you can use them for Christmas decorations and make pretty angels as tree decorations. Here's a simple oneCraft idea for children, which is done quickly.
This is needed:
- Shells (one large shell for the body and two small ones for the wings)
- Coloring pencils
- Color
- thin band
- Bindfad
- Glitzer (optional)
- Hot glue
- Wooden beads
- golden pipe cleaners
Paint the shells and, if desired, sprinkle some glitter on them while the paint is still wet.
Glue the two small shells for the wings with hot glue.
Draw a face on the wooden bead and glue it to the larger shell.
Make a bow out of the ribbon and glue it to the front of the shell.
Bend a small piece of gold pipe cleaner into a halo and glue it to the top of the head.
Glue a piece of string to the back to form a hanger.
Make angels out of spices with children
Children love it when you use unusual materials for crafts. And what better way to make a Christmas angel than a fewaromatic Christmas spices? You will need a wooden clothespin as a base, a cinnamon stick and two bay leaves for the wings, raffia ribbon for hair and hangers and a star anise to embellish the finished Christmas angel.
English version:Angel crafts for kids: 5 easy ideas for charming Christmas angels made of natural materials.
