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Home » Make Angel Wings

Make Angel Wings

September 11, 2015 by Nanny 5 Comments

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Just recently, while ‘minding’ my grandchildren, the dreaded ‘Book Week’ parade came up and one of the girls wanted to be ‘Lily – The Littlest Angel’  (Elizabeth Pulford) so I had to make some Angel Wings.  I posted about it on instagram and I had a few requests for a tutorial, so here we go!  Let’s make Angel Wings!

I thought I would use some paper plates and some feathers …

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BUT …….

have you ever tried feathers?  They quickly spread small particles into the air and this Nanny said “NO WAY!”

So now  we were left with just paper plates! (and yes, it was the night before!!!)

So I cut one in half to make the top of the wings

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and used a single plate to be the foundation

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I then cut some plates like this

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and arranged them on each side

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When I was happy with the look, I stapled each to the foundation plate (note how I had the plates facing right side out) I stapled from the under side so that the smooth part of the staple would be on her back.

I used packaging tape to secure a length of elastic across the foundation plate at about the level of the 3rd plate down and pushed the ends through a slit made with a sharp knife on the foundation plate.  (I apologise that I dont have a photo of this step)

I then glued a full plate over the top so no sharp staple ends were visible or able to cause damage to small fingers and no elastic was visible.

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I then tied the elastic ends together and my little angel slipped each arm through the elastic so that the elastic went across her back and around each shoulder .

I then simply threaded her belt through both ‘armholes’ of elastic and tied it at the front of her costume.  This meant the wings could be easily removed at school if necessary for toileting or play.

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A simple halo of gold tinsel and we were done!

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Perfect!!!

Book Week costumes?  Not a problem –  Just ask Nanny!!

Did you get caught up making costumes too?  How did you go?

Until next time

Nanny xx

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  1. Anne @ Domesblissity says

    September 16, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    Margie, what a fantastic idea! This is so clever. I’m sure there’ll be a lot of little people wanting to be dressed as angels this Halloween. Thank you so much for linking up to Thriving on Thursdays. I’m featuring this one at tomorrow’s party. Hope you enjoyed your quilt workshop.

    Anne @ Domesblissity xx
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    • Nanny says

      September 17, 2015 at 8:26 am

      Thank you Anne and thank you for the feature as well! I can’t wait to tell my little angel! I love to party with you at Thriving on Thursday and yes I had a wonderful day at the Zone day. 🙂

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  2. Linda Bowman says

    October 6, 2015 at 5:19 am

    Love this idea. I wanted to make a doll angel but worried about how to do the wings. I may be able to adapt this idea on a smaller scale. Thanks for the tutorial.

    Reply
    • Nanny says

      October 7, 2015 at 8:32 am

      Thanks Linda! I’m sure you could do that and with so many lovely paper plates available now you could even get gold or silver ones! 🙂

      Reply

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