[i love that someone thought to write the year on it- he was 5, i would be 3.]cute right? and has clearly endured the test of time despite being made out of literally nothing more than popsicle sticks & what looks like some hot glue.
there's actually a lot to like about popsicle sticks: their woodenness. their paint-ibility. their wood stain-ibility. the fact that they come in every size from tiny almost-appetizer-mini-stick to giant tongue depressors. and most of all? they are dirt cheap. and so they definitely are on my list this year of no-budget christmas crafts.
i'm going to church them up & start calling them crafts sticks so i can stop picturing the sticky, slobbery mess that is a popsicle stick after my 3 year old eating a popsicle.
so i picked up a pack of large ones [ for $2.50 at wal-mart], medium sized ones [150 for $1 at the dollar tree, & i had some mini ones on hand from a nativity project last year. ]
i saw so many of the cutest ideas on pinterest... little christmas trees, angels, snowmen, & mangers for the nativity. i settled on making some little angels as ornaments/gift toppers for the angel-loving ladies in my life. they turned out so cute i made an extra one for myself & one to hang on my neighbor's door with a snowflake cookie!
i used one of my daughter's toy tinkerbells to trace the wing shape onto cardboard [a fruit snacks box] & then used a glue stick to cover it with book pages & hymn music pages. then i painted the sticks to use for her dress, cut her arms & legs to size [half a mini stick] & hot glued it all together! i used a little 1" flat wooden circle for her head, & a little squirt of glitter glue for her halo.
the first one turned out a little big, so i ended up cutting the large sticks in half to make shorter, fatter angels! the stars are from a pack of glitter foam stickers that i found at walmart with the craft sticks, although if i make these again i'd use a wooden shape.
i love these because there's so many ways you could do them! they're like little paper dolls when you're putting them together. the little ballet-flat feet are totally my favorite part:
other no-budget christmas decor ideas:
paper star tree topper
framed letters
paper snowflakes
candy canes
jute & ruffle wreath
Love the angels, cute idea to use instead of a gift tag!!!
ReplyDeletethanks! they were easy, cute & best of all cheap :)
ReplyDeleteany ideas where i could get a tinkerbell for my wings??lol
ReplyDeletei think that particular tinkerbell was from the walmarts :) but maybe google a template? good luck!
ReplyDeleteif you have a butterfly punch or dye cut you could possibly use it as the wings...
ReplyDeleteThank you for the idea!!!! Every year I make ornaments for family and friends and they have photos on them...I think I am going to try these and put the photo on the star that the angel is holding! Thank you again! ; )
ReplyDeletethat's an awesome idea- i'd try maybe a wood star shape from the craft store & mod podge your photo to it. super cute! thanks for reading!
ReplyDeletewhat did you use for the ballet feet?
ReplyDeletehi there! the gold & silver 'shoes' are just glue & glitter, the red 'shoes' are cut out of felt & glued on. hope it helps!
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