For this issue of Dreams Alive I am making a Christmas angel. You can make one to if you follow these steps. Have a good time making you craft.

Have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah, and a Happy Kwanzaa.

Items you will need:

1. Scissors
2. Felt
3. Wooden sphere
4. HOT glue gun
5. Styrofoam cone
6. Gold ribbons
7. Gold stars
8. Paint
9. Pencil
10. Pen
11. Paint brush
12. Gold doily
13. Gold pipe cleaners
14. Sheet of thin cardboard

(For close-up views of images below, just click the pictures.)

1. Paint your wooden sphere peach then set it aside to dry.

2. Hot glue the felt to the styrofoam. Be careful the glue gun will be hot.
(You can try other colors of felt or fabric and make your angel totally unique!)

3. Trim off excess felt. (save for later)

4. Create angel arms. Take a pipe cleaner and fold it twice. Twist the pipe cleaner together. (make 2)

5. Cover the pipe cleaners with the leftover felt. Glue the felt on.

6. Wrap a pipe cleaner around the end of each arm to make mittens and then glue them onto the angel.

7. Fold a gold doily in half.

8. Glue the gold doily to the back of the angel to make wings.

9. Finish painting the wooden sphere by painting a face.

10. Glue the head on the angels body.

11. Glue the gold ribbons on the angels head to make hair.

12. Cut a piece out of you other doily and glue it to the angels dress to make a decoration.

13. Roll the stars into a circle and place it upon the angels head as a halo.

14. Cut a small rectangle out of cardboard and glue it in the angels hands to make a book.

15. You're all done! Put your angel in a nice place for you to see.