How To:

Materials

Wooden Bead Natural 20 / 25mm

Tinsel String Clear

Tinsel Stems Silver

Glitter Pom Poms 18mm

Glitter Pom Poms 12mm

Metallic Yarn Silver

Cellophane Iridescent

Beads

Cardboard Cone 120mm

Chromatemp White

Cardboard White

Supertac or Craft Glue

PVA

The Body

1. Paint a Cardboard Cone with white Chromatemp.

2. Fold a Tinsel Stem in half and thread the fold through the 20mm Wooden Bead until 5mm pokes through and fold this out over the top of the bead. These form the two arms.

3. Push two separate Tinsel Stems through the same bead, and fold 5mm of each stem out over the top of the bead. These form the two legs.

4. Thread the two legs through the neck of the cone and glue the top of the cone to the bottom of the bead.

5. Cover the cone with Supertac and wind the Clear Tinsel String around the cone until it is completely covered.

6. Use Supertac or Craft Glue to stick small beads around the base and neck of the cone.

7. Glue two small Glitter Pom Poms for the hands and two larger Glitter Pom Poms for the feet.

The Head

8. Tease out lengths of Silver Metallic Yarn and glue these onto the top of the bead.

9. Glue on beads to create a crown on top of her head.

The Wings

10. Cut five or six rectangles (approx. 15 x 8cm) from Iridescent Cellophane and randomly cut out triangles from both ends of each rectangle. Place each rectangle on top of each other and tie a length of Metallic Yarn around the middle of them to bind them together.

11. Glue the middle section of the wings to the back of the bead where it meets the cone.

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