How to Make Coffee Filter Angels
These coffee filter angels are so easy to make and turn out beautifully every time! Follow our step-by-step tutorial and use simple craft supplies to make these colorful DIY angel ornaments.
Yield: 1 angel ornament
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Colour the coffee filters
- Make a stack of 2 coffee filters. Flatten them onto a baking sheet or other protected surface.
- Gather 3 to 5 different colours or shades of washable marker.
- Choose your first colour and draw random scribbles on the top coffee filter.
- Repeat with the different colours of marker, filling the coffee filter.Leave a bit of white space between colours if you want a really light, pastel look for your angel.
Step 3: Blend the marker
- Use an eyedropper to drip water onto the coffee filters.
- Repeat until the coffee filters are saturated. Allow to dry.
- Here's what the 2 coffee filters look like after they've dried.
Step 4: Fold the coffee filters
- While holding the 2 coffee filters together, fold up one side about 1/4 inch.
- Flip the coffee filters over and fold up again, lining up the bottom of the coffee filter with the fold.
- At this point we find it helpful to separate the 2 coffee filters.Doing the first couple of folds together ensures the folds will be virtually identical, but it's a lot easier to make clean folds when you're doing 1 at a time.
- Continue creating accordion folds on the coffee filter until you reach the other end.
- Repeat with the second coffee filter.
Step 5: Make the angel's head
- Cut an 8 to 10 inch piece of twine.
- Fold it in half and tie it into an ornament hanger, leaving about 1-1/2 inches below the knot.
- Slide the wooden bead over the loop so it sits by the knot.
- Add a bit of glue inside the bead to keep it in place.
Step 6: Form the angel shape
- Fold 1/3 of one coffee filter down.
- Line up the other coffee filter and fold it in the opposite direction, so they form a "T" shape.
- Cut off 1 inch from each end. You can cut 1 at a time and then hold them together so the cuts are the in the same place, or cut through both coffee filters at once.
- Add hot glue below the short fold, just enough to attach the twine tails.
- Place the twine into the glue so the angel head sits just above the coffee filter. Hold it in place until the glue dries.
- Then add glue all the way down the side of the coffee filter. Line up the other coffee filter and connect them.
- Once the glue is dry pull out the accordion folds so the dress and wings are fanned out.
- Your coffee filter angel is complete!
Notes
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