If you’re looking for an easy angel craft to make this Christmas with minimal supplies, this Paper Plate Angel Craft for Kids is perfect for you!

If you look around during Christmastime, you’ll notice that nearly all the representations of angels show them as female. But is that true? Have angels always been female?

Well, historically, angels were considered genderless, especially in the Abrahamic faiths. However, some early art, from the 12th to 14th centuries, features angels in a more masculine form.

Things began to change later, and from the 18th century, we began to see more angels represented as female. That is the image that we’ve been following to this day, with angels having soft facial features and often wearing a dress.

We’re going with this today, with our cute little paper plate angel craft for kids! It features a pretty little angel in a blue dress and gold-edged wings!

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Easy Paper Plate Angel Craft for Kids

Supplies required:

White paper plate
Colored craft papers
Acrylic paint
Colored markers or Sharpies
Paintbrush
Pencil
Craft glue
A pair of scissors

How to make the Paper Plate Angel Craft:

1. Download and print the paper plate angel craft template. The template includes patterns for the head, halo and hair.

2. Trace the patterns of the template on craft paper of the appropriate colors and cut them out. Let the halo be yellow or orange, but you can choose the skin and hair color of the angel. Once the patterns are ready, cut a slit along the marked line on the hair cutout.

3. Insert the head of your paper plate angel craft into the slit of the hair cutout. Secure it in place with some craft glue.

4. Apply some glue to the ‘stick’ part of the halo and attach it behind the angel’s head. Take out your black marker and draw eyes, a nose and a mouth on the angel’s face. Make sure she’s smiling! Use a pink marker to draw some cheeks so the angel looks cherubic.

5. Let’s move on to the main feature of our paper plate angel craft – the paper plate wings! Get a plain white paper plate – see if you can find one with ridges on the rim, like the one shown below.

6. Locate the centre of your paper plate and draw two lines from this point to the outer edge, creating a sector as shown below.

7. Cut off the marked sector and then split it into two halves – we will need one of these later, to make the angel’s dress. The remaining part of the paper plate will become the angel’s wings.

8. Use your pencil to draw a scalloped border along the outer edge of the paper plate.

9. Cut the paper plate along the marked scalloped border.

10. Take out your golden marker and draw an outline along the scalloped border of the paper plate.

11. Bring back the dress cutout from Step 7. Apply a coat of acrylic paint all over the angel’s dress and let it dry completely.

12. Once the paint is dry, attach the dress in the middle of the paper plate pattern, so that the pointy end is right at the centre of the paper plate. It should look like the image below:

13. Time to put it all together! Use glue to attach the head pattern to the top end of the dress.

That’s it – your paper plate angel craft is ready, and it looks amazing!

This paper plate angel craft is very easy and requires little more than a paper plate and craft paper, but there are many ways to jazz it up! You can use a gold marker or gold glitter on the halo, and you can add some silver glitter to the wings. You can also add some ribbon to the top of the angel and turn it into a DIY ornament for your tree!

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