How to Make a Christmas Angel From Paper

Video Transcript

"For this clip we're going to make a paper decoration for Christmas angels. For this clip you're going to need some pieces of card, some scissors, a stapler, a felt tip pen, and some little decoration. We need three pieces of card all the same size, and we need a felt tip pen. And I'm going to draw on the card, and I hope you can do a similar drawing; starting off with the head like that, and the neck like that. Then, going up right behind the head some big angel wings going right to the top of the card. And then, the angel's dress comes right down to the bottom of the card. Then, if you're good at drawing you can add on some angel eyes, a little angel mouth smiling or singing, and you can draw in some pretty hair. I've only got a blue pen here to make things simple, but if you want to add on your own colors that's good. And the angel can be stretching her arms up. You can have them like that as if she's stretching her arms up, or you can have them however you want. And then, the dress; you can decorate with some pretty frills right down to the bottom, and to make it extra specially nice you can put on some little sticky back stars, maybe on the wings, maybe on the dress. This is the bit where you can have fun, and choose how to do the rest of it. It's your choice. Now then, you need not just one angel, but three angels. If you're good at cutting, or if you've got a kind grownup who can help you you can cut out all three at the same time, but it is a little bit stiff using card; up the edge of the dress, round the wings. It's not a lot of cutting, is it? Up the edge of the dress, round the wings, and then the fiddle bit is going to be down the wings and round the head. I think I'll cut down that wing. I'll cut that down down that wing, and then I'll go swivel it round and all the way around the top of the head. She's upside down isn't she, poor angel. So, there's one, two, three angels already. That one's already been decorated. You can have fun decorating the other angels in your own style. You could add glitter; you could add bits of lace. You even might have some feathers to decorate them with. Now then, each angel has to be folded in half right down their middle, even down the middle of her head. There's one, there's two right down the middle. Poor angel, but if she's got a fold-in it makes her stronger. Then she'll be able to stand up. Right down the middle. Now then, here's one folded in half, and another folded in half. I'm going to put them side to side. Because you drew around them at the same time they should match and get the folds to touch each other at the back, and then staple them together, a staple in the skirt, and a staple in the wing. Then, there's one more angel whose fold will go back to back so all the folds are touching. And again, staple the skirt; staple the wing at that side. And these ones still aren't stapled together, so we pull them together firmly, and staple, and staple. I can see that those wings don't exactly match, so this is your chance to just have a little bit of time trimming it and making sure they all match up as nicely as possible so there's no extra layers showing. It'll make you look neater by the time you're finished. And this one, again, just needs a bit of a trim to tie tidy it up. And now you can see if you put the angel on the table she stands up ever so easily, or she could stand on the top of your tree, or she could stand in the middle of your table when you have your Christmas dinner, especially if she's all decorated by you, and she'll look lovely. So, that's how to make a paper Christmas angel."