Christmas Angel Crafts

These activities are not suitable for children under 3 years owing to small parts. Adult supervision is needed at all times.

• Supplies you need to make a bead angel
• Instructions for bead angel
• What skills will my child practice with this activity?
  
• Paper angel craft
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First, thread the beads onto the chenille stick / pipe cleaner.

We used 11 beads per body of the angel – 4 to go along the bottom, and 3 on each side of the body.

But actually, your child can do as many as desired!

Take the second chenille stick and bend it in half so you can see the halfway point.

Then twist the halfway point around the neck of the angel.

You can add more beads to the wings at this point if you like.

Bend the wings and fasten the ends at the neck.

Attach a loop of scrap ribbon or raffia to your angel’s head.

Now you have a great decoration for a tree or a card!

Threading the beads onto the chenille sticks gives your child an opportunity to get both hands working together (bilateral coordination). The stiffness of the pipe cleaner makes the activity a little easier than threading beads onto a floppy string.

Your child will also be using hand-eye coordination to help get the beads onto the stick.

If you make a sample angel that your child needs to copy, you will be working on sequencing skills as your child follows the color pattern of beads that you used.

You can also verbally request a certain sequence (eg blue, yellow, purple) that your child has to memorize and put onto the wire. This also helps with auditory sequencing skills.

You can incorporate scissor cutting if you ask your child to cut a colored background for the angel to go on a card.

Make it more fun by using edging scissors^#Ad to make a pretty background. I drew a line where I wanted my child to cut along the frame.

This really simple Christmas angel craft involves cutting out circles and then some quick decorating and pasting.

I decided to give this angel craft its own page - so head over to my paper angel page for the full set of photographed instructions and the free template download!

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I hope you have lots of fun making these simple bead angels this Christmas!

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