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Wine Cork Angel

Looking for a festive decoration to add to your tree or mantle? These cork angel ornaments make a lovely addition to your home for the holidays and are a fun craft to work on with kids. Check out the instructions and see how you can make them for yourself!

Materials

  • Wine Corks or Hobby Corks (1 per angel)
  • Wooden craft bead (1 per angel)
  • Thin ribbon in color/pattern of choice
  • Thick ribbon in color/pattern of choice
  • Hot glue gun and glue sticks
  • Metallic gold or silver pipe cleaner
  • Metallic gold or silver string
  • Permanent marker
  • Pink blush or eyeshadow

Create Your DIY Wine Cork Angel

  • Use hot glue gun to place glue on the top of a wine cork.
  • Attach wooden bead to glue on wine cork, using the bead hole as the angel mouth.
  • Cut a 25 cm piece of thick ribbon.
  • Place a dot of hot glue on the center of the thick ribbon piece.
  • Fold over one side of the thick ribbon piece onto the hot glue dot, creating half of a bow.
  • Place a dot of glue on the center spot you folded over.
  • Fold the other side of the thick ribbon piece onto the hot glue dot, creating a full bow or set of angel wings.
  • Use permanent marker to place eyes on the bead (head) of the angel.
  • Cut a small piece of pipe cleaner and shape into a circle for the halo, leaving some slack to glue to the back of the angel's head.
  • Glue the halo onto the back of the bead (angel's head).
  • Cut a piece of string and tie into a loop large enough to hang the angel as an ornament.
  • Glue the string onto the back of the bead (angel's head) over top of the excess pipe cleaner.
  • Use the hot glue gun to place glue on the back of the angel body.
  • Place the angel wings onto the back of the angel body.
  • Cut a small piece of thin ribbon and tie into a bow.
  • Use hot glue gun to glue small bow onto the neck (top of wine cork) of the angel.
  • Use pink blush or eyeshadow to lightly apply a blush to the cheeks of the angel.

Your DIY Wine Cork Angel

We hope you enjoy making these decorative ornaments! Please share your project with us on Facebook and be sure to tag @BangorCork. For more project ideas, check out our Holiday Cork Crafts page.

Images courtesy of Guia de Manualidades.