You will need:

• Wooden dolly pegs
• White doilies
• White felt OR shiny paper
• Yellow wool
• Gold pipe cleaners
• White, pink and yellow paint
• Paint brush
• Black pen
• Scissors
• Glue gun or strong PVA glue

Step 1: Paint your peg

Paint the top of your dolly peg in a pale pink colour for the angels face. And then paint the bottom of your peg white.

We recommend using acrylic paints as they cover the wood well.

Step 2: Give your angel some hair and a face

Paint some hair on your angel.

Once the paint is dry, use a black Sharpie to draw on eyes and a smile.

Step 3: Cut out the angel’s dress and wings

Cut a triangle shape out of your doily and then cut off the top section, leaving a curved edge (see the photograph here).

Then take a piece of felt or shiny card. Cut out the shape of a pair of wings.

Step 4: Glue on the dress

Wrap the doily around your peg and secure it in place at the back.

Step 5: Add the wings

Now glue the wings to the back of your angel.

Step 6: Cut some angel hair

Cut 2 or 3 strands of wool for your angel’s hair. You could also use gold thread if you prefer.

Step 7: Glue on the hair

Glue the hair in place using a glue gun on strong glue.

We left our strands of hair quite long and gave them a small trim once they were glued down.

Step 8: Make a halo

Every angel needs a sparkly halo. Make yours by bending a gold pipe cleaner into a little loop. Then twist the ends together.

Step 9: Glue on the halo

To complete your angel glue the halo in place at the back of your peg. A glue gun is the easiest way to do this.

If you don’t have a glue gun or strong glue, then you may need to use some tape to hold the pipe cleaner securely in place.