Do-it-yourself paper angel - a simple and beautiful decoration for the Christmas holidays. paper angel
In ancient Greek there is a word "angelos". From him the concept of "angel" is formed. The Greek term means "messenger". That is, the winged spirit is the one who conveys the will of the Gods. So, in the story of the Nativity, the angels told the Magi not to return to Herod.
The priestesses knew where the baby Jesus was, and the king was prophesied that the end of his reign would come with the birth of the Savior. Therefore, the Magi, as well as Joseph with Mary and the baby, went to Egypt. Since then, Christians have venerated angels.
One way to express gratitude is to place winged figurines on Christmas trees. The holiday is on the doorstep. It's time to learn exactly how to make Christmas angels. If you take as a material, the process will be quick and simple.
How to make an angel out of paper
How to make an angel out of paper - video which can be divided into several categories. The first includes samples, for the manufacture of which scissors are required. These are the easiest and fastest options for making angels. You can create separate ones, or tie them into garlands. Let's start with a chain of winged creatures. They seem to hold hands, symbolizing the unity of the forces of good.
This is just a preparation. There is room for imagination. The garland can also be cut out of thin cardboard or colored paper. It doesn't have to be left untouched. How about a coat of paint, or a spray of glitter? The atmosphere of a fairy tale and purity will be supported by glued rhinestones. The contour of the angels can also be different.
Separate figures of the messengers of God are flat and voluminous. A middle option is also possible. It needs corrugated paper. Sheets from stores are usually thin and with a small zigzag. For Christmas crafts, you need thick paper with large folds. So, we take ordinary sheets and create corrugations ourselves. The nuances of the process will explain the following video " How to make a paper Christmas angel»:
Now let's figure it out how to make a paper angel in the full sense of the word. A pattern will be required. Draw it according to the forces and the child. In order for the figure to keep its shape better, thick paper is taken. An A-4 sheet is enough. Scissors, as always, are the main ones in the process. So let's get started.
If you don’t want to draw the outline of a winged creature, you can use a ready-made template. It is easy to find it on the Internet. All you need is a printer to print the sample. Next, we draw around the contour, so the issue is resolved, how to make an angel out of paper. Templates popular ones are listed below:
In the question, how to make an angel out of paper origami lessons stand apart. You can’t name a simple technique, and it takes a lot of time to create one figure. Therefore, we will pay special attention to Japanese technology.
How to make an origami paper angel
To create origami, you need accuracy, patience, spatial thinking. All this refers to the realm of the mind, which governs the angels. This is the opinion of Evagrius. This ascetic monk lived in the 4th century. It is the concept of Evagrius that is recognized by Christianity as the main one. The man said that the human essence is tripartite.
The lower part causes a thirst for carnal pleasures, hunger. The middle substance is responsible for emotions, inciting pride and anger. Rational third part. It is she who brings a person closer to God and the world of angels. So origami, where it is worth turning off emotions and forgetting about hunger, delving into creativity, is the best fit for the spirit of Christmas.
The photos are inspiring. It's time make an angel out of paper for the new year or Christmas. In Russia, the first holiday is celebrated on a grand scale. In Europe and America, Christmas is considered the main one, honoring the traditions of Christianity. In Japan, Buddhism is generally practiced. But, this does not prevent us from using the achievements of the masters of the country of the Rising and creating origami angels. Instructional video below.
Origami figures are stable, dense, voluminous. Such angels are able to decorate not only a Christmas tree, but also a festive table, a fireplace, in general. In the design of the premises, wings are also used, as the main attribute of heavenly spirits. The accessory can be hung on the wall, or put on. The latter option is good in the case of a themed, costumed holiday.
How to make paper angel wings
DIY paper angel wings easier than it seems. First, the object is quite large. There is no need to painstakingly cut and fold the smallest details. Secondly, all you need is paper, glue or tape, a pencil and scissors. This toolkit is for everyone. How to apply it? Watch the training video:
Sonya Star shared her way of making angel wings. But, there are plenty of other options. One Max Lenova refrains from commenting and offers a rather obscure video. But, the creation of a young man is so good-looking that it is worth attention even in this form.
Paper can only be the basis for the wings. Feathers, for example, are also made of fabric. It is also possible to use non-standard sheets. Wings from newspapers or tracing paper look unusual and elegant. In order not to be unfounded, below are examples of works with a "zest".
Now, it remains not to forget about the Christmas stars and images of Jesus. In the days of early Christianity, by the way, he was considered one of the angels. Christ lost this status only in the 325th year. Then the Council of Nicaea was held, convened by the emperor of Rome, Constantine the 1st.
At the meeting, it was established that Jesus has the same nature as God, which means that he cannot be an angel. However, this does not degrade the role of heavenly spirits, but only changes the public's view of Christ. He is considered the savior of mankind. So, Christmas is a holiday of salvation, kindness and purity of thoughts.
Good afternoon, in this article I have collected a variety of crafts in the form of Christmas angels. On the eve of this New Year, I want to do something kind, touching, pure and sincere with my own hands. I would like to let a kind, quiet helper into my life - an angel soaring nearby. Let today you want to make a little homemade angel with your own hands. And I will show you a variety of ways to realize this desire.
Angels are magnets.
(craft for children
with your own hands).
From cardboard, gift paper and a magazine page, you can make a beautiful angel on a magnet. Cut out a face from cardboard (regular beige-brown packaging). On it with a marker we draw black eyes (with lowered eyelashes), a nose and a mouth. We cut out the hair from the magazine page - we are looking for a photo of a girl with hair in an old magazine and on this “hairy place” we cut out the silhouette of an angel's hairstyle (photo below). In the same magazine, you can find a photo with jewelry or lace and cut it out - to use the angel's head jewelry (as in the photo below).
We cut out an angel's dress from white cardboard, cut out a semicircle from patterned wrapping paper - these will be the wings of an angel. We collect crafts for glue. On the reverse side we attach a magnet (on glue or double-sided tape).
And your New Year's angel fridge magnet with your own hands is ready.
To decorate angels, you can use lace, remnants of embossed wallpaper, beautiful covers from old notebooks, old greeting cards, old gift bags, candy boxes, crisp candy box liners and other shiny and beautiful planes. An old CD cut in half can also become angel wings. Take a look around and you will find the right dressing material right at home.
And for the wings it is very good to use openwork paper napkins for pastry baking (as in the photo below).
If you want your angels to be not flat, but stood steadily on the table as 3D figurine thick paper or cardboard. Then you can do something like this configuration of the lower part of the angels(as in the photo below). That is, the lower cardboard skirt of the angel CONTINUE DOWN and bend it twice - to the back of the angel, and glue it at the back. Then your New Year's angel will stand on the table like a toy.
paper angels
fold-outs with wishes.
Children in kindergarten with their own hands can make such cute angels from colored paper. those
Below I drew a diagram of the assembly of such an angel. To make it clear to everyone how simple it is. Hair cut out of a strip of paper, before cutting, bend the upper part of the strip into a fold. And we cut the corners of this fold in a semicircle (we get the same shape as in the diagram below, with the bangs zone and the loose hair zone). We put a circle of pink paper (face) under the fold line and bend the bangs from above.
The body of a paper angel is easy to fold according to the diagram below. We take a rectangle of paper and bend its upper corners down - to the middle of the bottom line of the rectangle (exactly as we do when assembling a paper boat). Trim off the top and you're done.
Paper towel angel.
Craft for the New Year.
And here is an interesting proposal for table setting for the New Year. From cardboard we express a simple CONTINUOUS FORM - a head with wings. In the middle of the wings (in the chest part of the angel) we make a triangular slot. And we insert the tip of a paper napkin folded in the shape of a sharp cone into it.
Here I drew the outlines of the template for this craft in the form of an angel. Now your napkins will lay beautifully on the plates with angels - a great table design for Christmas. And a simple craft for kids.
Crafts - angels
Based on a PAPER CONE.
We all know how to make paper bags. Cut out the paper circle. In the circle we cut off a sector of any size. We glue (or connect with a stapler) the side of the sector and get a cone.
If we take a narrow sector of the circle, then we will get a long thin cone. If we took a wide sector (half a circle, or more), then we get a fluffy wide cone-skirt for our angel.
Below are some ideas for crafts on the theme of the New Year's angel, where a paper cone is taken as the basis for the angel's shirt.
These angels are glued from a sector into a quarter of a circle. That is, cut a round sheet like a pie into quarters. We glue each quarter-sector into a cone and get four blanks for the angel. Further, according to the scheme below, we make wings (with a slot in the middle) and a head. We combine all this together into a common craft in the form of an angel who folded his hands in front of him in a Christmas prayer.
But crafts-angels where the cone is made of thick gift paper. In the gift wrapping department, we can buy rolls or sheets of gift paper with a bright holiday pattern. From such paper, angels are very elegant. The heads of paper angels can be made from ping pong balls (they can be tinted with beige gouache, or beige eye shadow, fix the paint with hairspray). And on these balls you can stick hair from threads. Cut the threads into segments, arrange the segments in a row in a bunch. Sew this bundle with stitches in the middle - as if to make a parting in the hair. And then stick this hair with a parting on the head of an angel. Next, shape the hairstyle of your choice.
For small crafts of paper angels, you can use a large bead as a head.
You can give your craft in the form of an angel a textured shape. To do this, all the parts connected together can be pasted over with paper napkins. Spread the cone with PVA glue and overlay with pieces of a torn napkin, again apply a layer of glue on top of it and again a layer of napkins - this is how we get a solid papier-mâché craft.
And here is an interesting cutting of a paper angel based on a cone - where the wings are not glued to the angel separately, but are already included in the overall pattern of the craft. Below I give step by step instructions how to draw such a scheme for an angel by hand.
- First, we draw a circle - either with a compass, or circle a large plate on a piece of paper.
- Then we find the middle line of the circle (draw a line with a pencil).
- Above the line, draw a circle of the head, and the outlines of the wings of an angel.
- We take scissors and cut off the excess - the part that is above the drawn head and between the edges of the wings.
- And with scissors on the center line we make two cuts - the first from the right edge of the line, and the second on the left side of the angel - from the base of the head (angel's neck) towards the edge (as in the photo below).
- Next, we collect the angel with our hands. We bend the skirt part like a cone-bag - and insert the slot into the slot. It turns out a solder fastener due to these cuts. And the wings themselves bend to the sides and the head sticks up.
paper angel
From an openwork napkin.
And here is an example of an angel made from a paper napkin. Here we make three cones at once - a skirt cone, and two cones for the hands. Inside the sleeves of the cones, we see the angel's handles - they are made from a slightly broken ice cream stick. The base is hidden under the skirt of the angel (a cork from a bottle of wine, or a cut neck from a plastic bottle. The base under the skirt is necessary so that our cone skirt does not bend under the weight of the ball-head and arms.
And here is another angel made according to the same pattern but with elements of paper torsion (quilling). Here the wings are made from strips of paper rolled and glued using the quilling technique. Hair is also twisted strips of paper, pens are also quilling modules. But the dress, with sleeves and a collar, is just paper elements. Which are decorated with lace made with a simple hole punch. We cut out conical blanks, and before wrapping these blanks into cones, we first make an openwork row of holes along the edge - with an ordinary office hole punch. It turns out elegant and unusual.
Angel with your own hands
From corn leaves.
Corn stalk, when properly dried, is a very durable material for crafts. From it, like from corrugated paper, you can cut and fold any craft. And an angel can also appear from a corn leaf. We wrap a round ball with corn cake (we get the head and trunk of the neck passing down into the body of an angel. We attach a fan skirt, wings, etc. to this trunk. You can find many more crafts from a corn leaf on this site in the article Crafts from natural material for children.
Craft angel for kids
From an egg carton.
The cardboard cassettes in which we buy eggs are the source of cone shapes. Cut out the conical parts of the package. We paint it white and use it as the basis for the New Year's children's angel crafts. You can arrange such angels on the festive table, hang them on the Christmas tree as a Christmas toy, or make them part of the New Year's composition to decorate the interior.
DIY angels
From ice cream sticks.
Here is an idea for Christmas decorations in the form of Christmas angels. We paint the ice cream sticks in white gouache, We fix the paint with hairspray so that our hands do not get dirty. And we collect an angel for glue. We add elements from cardboard, wooden beads, threads and foil. We get a Christmas tree pendant-toy for the New Year.
Angels for children
Crafts from plates.
From ordinary disposable plates - plastic or paper - you can make an angel for Christmas.
Below we see an example of a children's flat application. Here we cut out only a segment of the skirt from the plate, and everything else is made of cardboard and fluffy wire.
But voluminous angels - where a round plate is the basis for twisting the cone. And the angel is created according to the principle of a cone paper craft
Craft angel for kids.
In print technique.
Children are very fond of handprint graphics. If you put your palm on a sheet of paper three times (tightly squeezing your fingers), then we will immediately get the whole silhouette of an angel - with a dress and two wings behind its back. It remains only to supplement this craft with a face, thread hair and a halo above the head.
Salt dough angels.
Salt dough is an interesting craft material. With it, we can make any images and figures using only pure imagination and sleight of hand. The dough is plastic and holds its shape well after vysypanie. Beautiful crafts that will delight your loved ones for a long time.
Felt angels
and crocheted.
If your child has already taken up needlework from fabric and thread, then you can organize a feasible craft for children's hands. Cut out the paired parts of the angel - the front and back, and give the child the task of connecting these pairs together along the edge with the usual edging seam.
And here is an example of a crochet angel. For those who know how to knit, this is a simple task. Just drive the canvas around, and decrease the number of columns in the row if you want to narrow the canvas, or add if you want to expand.
The design of your crochet angel depends on your imagination and the threads that you have available. Angel hair is easy to make by stretching long strands by picking up the posts along the edge of the angel's face.
Or you can hook the threads to the angel's head along the central parting. And then collect in a pigtail or other hairstyle.
These are the ideas in this New Year on the topic of how to make an angel with your own hands.
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In any religion, angels play the main role, since it is these creatures that are closest to the deity. Images of angels, in addition to religious books and icons, can be seen on Christmas cards, rooms and lush green Christmas trees are decorated with their figures at Christmas, so many people associate this holiday with these white-winged creatures.
Figurines of angels- A wonderful decoration for Christmas, which can be easily made with your own hands. This can be done by both adults and young children, so crafts can be done by the whole family. In addition, such a Christmas angel can be a great gift for relatives and close friends. A paper angel is the most popular figurine for Christmas, because everyone has paper at hand, and he himself the process of creating an angel won't take much time and effort.
Volumetric angels are more suitable as a paper figurine that can be put on a festive table or decorate a room with it, and if you stick a string, you can hang such a craft on a Christmas tree. To make a three-dimensional paper angel, you need to follow the following instruction:
- The first step is to cut out two truncated cones, one of which should be smaller than the other in size. These cones will become the dress for the angel.
- Another sheet of paper needs to be folded in half and draw on it the outlines of the face and neck of the future angel. In front, with a felt-tip pen or pencil, draw the face and bangs of the figure, and you can draw hair in the back. Cut out the figure without separating the two pieces at the top of the head.
- Make a circle with a hole made of paper, preferably yellow. This yellow circle will become the figurine's halo.
- Bend a long paper rectangle in half and from the top corner on the fold side, start drawing a triangle with rounded ends. After cutting out, straighten the resulting sleeves. To them it is necessary to cut and glue the palms.
- According to the template or cut out the wings of an angel yourself.
- Now you need to assemble the figurine. At the very end of the cone, “put on” the head of an angel, attaching it with glue. A halo is glued to the head, and just below the top of the cone, where the angel's neck ends, you need to attach your hands. The wings must be folded in half and attached to the back of the figures. If desired, you can thread a thread into a halo and hang a craft on a Christmas tree.
If it is not possible to draw necessary elements on your own, you can use a specially prepared template that can be printed.
Gallery: paper angel (25 photos)
Paper Christmas Angel
The easiest way to make an angel out of paper is available to all ages. To make the next Christmas angel, you only need scissors and an A4 sheet. The resulting figurines can decorate the room by hanging them on windows, walls or even on a chandelier. To make such interesting decoration you can use a special angel stencil, with which cutting will become faster, or show your imagination and create your own unique angels. Whichever method is chosen, there is only one instruction for making crafts:
- A sheet of paper of the selected format must be folded in half and on one of the received sides draw a half of an angel: a wing, part of a halo and a dress.
- The dress and wings of the figurine, if desired, can be decorated with small stripes at the ends, which can later be wound on a pencil and make the angel more voluminous. There are no restrictions on the choice of the shape of the wings: it all depends only on the imagination and skills of the person involved in the manufacture of crafts.
- After cutting out the details, unfold the sheet and lower what should have been a halo down. Thus, the halo will turn into hands folded in front of the angel's face. The resulting decoration will look interesting along with several more of these angels flying on a string under the chandelier.
You can also hang near the chandelier waldorf angels, whose stencils can be easily obtained on the Internet or drawn by yourself. In such angels, a small incision is made in the back area, as well as on the wings, which are subsequently connected, and the angel looks voluminous. For making crafts cardboard is usually used, which is famous for being more durable, but paper can also be suitable for a Waldorf angel.
Paper angel figurine
Cute angel figurine can become beautiful Christmas tree toy or perfectly fit into the Christmas interior. Making such a craft is easy if you use a template or draw your own, similar to the one shown in the photo.
- Transfer the drawing to paper or print it on paper from which you are going to make a craft.
- Cut out the shape following the marked lines.
- Bend the resulting figure so that you get an angel with spread wings.
- Make a small hole in the angel's head with a needle and thread a thread to hang the ornament on the Christmas tree.
Among all Christmas decorations, angels are the most popular. Their figures are easy to make at home from paper by the most common cutting. With this kind of work even small children can handle which makes making Christmas angels a fun family activity. The angel craft can easily decorate a house or a Christmas tree during the holidays and bring the spirit of Christmas to all family members.
Making an angel out of paper with your own hands is not difficult even for a two-year-old child. But such a souvenir, made with your own hands, will be a pleasure to give to grandparents. And if you create an angel craft on the eve of Christmas, then angels can decorate the Christmas tree and give it an even more solemn look.
How to make an angel out of paper: a simple diagram
There is a wide variety of schemes with which you can make an angel out of paper.
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Such angels are easy, simple and fast to make. It is necessary to print the diagram, cut it out and additionally attach decorations in the form of beads, sparkles, etc.
Volumetric paper angels
If a child wants to make an angel out of paper quickly and easily, then you can print the blank shown in the figure below on a color printer in advance. Or cut out shapes of the corresponding color from colored paper.
- We cut out two truncated cones of different colors - an angel's dress.
- We take a beige sheet of paper, draw an angel's head on it according to the template, cut it out. We circle the facial features brighter with a marker - eyes, nose, lips.
- From yellow paper, cut out a circle with an empty center in the amount of two pieces. It will be a halo. We connect two sheets together.
- Cut out two rectangles. From the side of the smaller edge of the triangle we make a rounding. These will be the sleeves.
- We glue the palms to the sleeves, having previously cut them out of beige paper.
- We make wings. We create two wing blanks, since they should be double-sided. Glue to the cone. If you thread a thread through the halo, you get a Christmas tree decoration.
According to another scheme, you can make an angel who holds a pipe in his hands. The principle of creating it is the same as described above: on one half we draw a template, cut it out and straighten it to add volume.
paper christmas angels
The angel is a symbol of such a family holiday as Christmas. The more interesting it will be for the child to create. Paper angels made by a child together with a parent can be used as a Christmas tree decoration. Paper craft angel does not require special skills from the child and is quite easy to do.
A pattern for a Waldorf angel made of paper is shown in the photo:
Creating an angel with your own hands can captivate not only a child, but also an adult. And having made an angel as a gift to loved ones, the baby will give his warmth and love, transmitted with the help of his crafts.
Today we are returning to our life the good old traditions - making toys for the Christmas tree with our own hands. And new technologies and the availability of beautiful bright materials for sale will make this process easy and enjoyable, and the result will be beautiful and pleasing to the soul.
If your kids love to decorate your house for Christmas with their own hands, you can make a simple paper angel with them. To make it, you will need the most common stationery.
We advise you not to be stingy and purchase beautiful golden, patterned or embossed paper for this toy. In this case, at the end of the Christmas holidays, paper angels can be neatly packed and stored until Christmas time next year.Thus, this simple DIY toy will delight you and your children for a long time.
How to make an angel out of paper - option 1
To make two Christmas angels you will need:- a printer to print the drawing;
- a sheet of beautiful thick paper, preferably of a different color on both sides (A-4 format for 2 angels);
- scissors;
- hole punch to make a hole for the thread;
- a small piece of beautiful thread (20-25 cm) to hang toys.
If your printer does not take thick paper for crafts, you can make a drawing on plain paper and use tracing paper to transfer the image to a colored sheet.
- Cut out the future angel templates according to the gray lines.
- Bend the paper blanks as shown in the photo and form your Christmas angels.
- Using a hole puncher in the angel's head, punch a small, neat hole and thread a piece of thread through it. Tie the ends of the thread to make a loop - for it we will hang a handmade toy on the Christmas tree. (Also, angels can be hung on a long thread from the ceiling or in the doorway).
Option 2 - Christmas Angel with wings
Using the instructions below, you will transform the golden wrapping paper into a beautiful paper diffuser - Angel with Wings. Quick, easy and fun, you can very quickly make one, two or even many angels to decorate your home for Christmas.
To make a paper diffuser, you will need:
- gold or silver wrapping paper (or another color of your choice);
- a piece of cardboard for the stabilizer;
- glue;
- scissors;
- an awl or thick needle for perforating paper.
- Print out the paper diffuser template Angel with wings.
- Glue the template to the back of the wrapping paper. Make sure the adhesive covers the entire design sheet. It is better to use “dry” glue or a glue stick, as wrinkles remain on the paper from liquid glue.
- Cut out the Angel in the shape of the template.
- Make cuts along the dotted lines.
- Cut out a rectangular piece of cardboard that is tedious to stick on the back of the template to add rigidity to the Angel figurine.
- Glue this piece of cardboard with a glue stick.
- Using an awl or thick needle, poke holes in the template at the perforation points.
- First, perforate according to the pattern on the back of the template, then carefully repeat it on the front side.
- Fold the template as shown in the photo to form a cone, and glue the edges with a glue stick.
Simple yet elegant, these angels will look good on a dining table or office table. They will cheer you up and put a smile on your face.
How to make a 3D paper Christmas angel
This cute decoration is quite easy to make. It can become both a New Year's Christmas tree toy and used for festive interior decoration.
To make a three-dimensional Angel, you will need:
- a sheet of beautiful colored paper;
- yarn or colored thread;
- liquid glue or glue stick;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- scissors.
- Print out the Angel template.
- Cut out the template and, laying it on colored paper, circle it three times with a pencil.
- Cut out all three angel templates with scissors.
- Using a ruler, fold all three templates along the center vertical line.
- Using a ruler, measure about 12 cm of thread.
- Take two templates and glue them in half (to the fold).
- Fold the thread in half and insert its edges into the fold of the templates.
- Lubricate the halves of the first two templates with glue and put the third template on top, securing the edges of the thread at the same time.
- All! Our diffuser angel is ready! You can hang it from the ceiling on a long thread, and it will turn beautifully from the movement of air, remaining visible from any point.
It is also possible to make not only a three-dimensional, but a four- and even five-dimensional Angel, using the appropriate number of templates.