How to make a paper plate angel

A cute, easy angel craft for Christmas: how to make a paper plate angel.

 

How to make a paper plate Christmas angel

  QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here  

 

Isn’t she pretty? Just what you need to grace the top of your Christmas tree -and easy-peasy to make.

All you need is: a paper plate pencil scissors stapler stickers / pens to decorate glue and glitter for added sparkle  

 

How to make your paper plate angel

1. Draw the outline shown below on your paper plate (on the side you’d put the food).  

 

 

 

2. Cut along the lines. 

 

 

 

  3. On the reverse side draw on a face and arms and decorate as you wish.  

 

 

 

4. Fold back the body part and staple at the back.  

 

 

 

5. If you want your angel to stand on a flat surface you can weight the front with a little blue tac – or she can take her place at the top of the tree.

 

 

 

Here are the children’s masterpieces – aren’t they beautiful?

 

 

   

 

     

Download your ready-made Nativity Unit

Download the Play Academy’s ready-made Nativity Unit and you’ll have everything you need to lead a set of activities to introduce your children to the Nativity story.

This Unit includes artist-drawn puppets/colour-in nativity scene characters and printable Bible verse cards, that your children can use year after year.

In this Nativity teaching unit your children can:

:: learn about the Nativity and create their own Nativity book or small world scene using colour-in puppet / nativity scene characters

:: learn about Mary and Joseph’s journey, and explore junk modelling

:: learn about the shepherds role, and explore loose parts

:: learn about Jesus’ birth

:: learn about the three wise men, and complete their book / re-tell the story in their small world  

Bonus Nativity thematic unit printables

The Play Academy’s thematic units come with practical printables that make the lessons more engaging for your children and easier for you to teach.

No need to go searching for printables to accompany your lessons, they’re all included when you download your chosen unit.

In this Nativity Unit you’ll receive these bonus printables:

:: My Nativity Story book to write, colour and complete to tell the Nativity story

:: a set of artist-drawn My Nativity Puppets to colour, cut out and use to re-cap and act out the Nativity story

:: Nativity Vocabulary Cards to recap and consolidate learning

:: Nativity Bible Verse Cards to read, narrate your own acting out of the story, and perhaps to memorise

How to download this Nativity thematic unit

You can download this unit along with over 50 more from NurtureStore’s Play Academy.

If you are already of the Play Academy, you can download this unit straight away from our Library here.

If you are not yet a member, find out more and choose your first unit here. Your teaching is about to get a whole lot easier!