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Heavenly Angel

Top off your homemade manger with this heavenly angel.

To get the instructions for making the entire manger, click here.

Materials

5 pipe cleaners: 2 skin-colored and 3 iridescent
Ruler
Scissors
About 8 feet of bulky-weight hair-colored yarn (we used Lion Brand Homespun slightly unraveled)
3 to 4 jumbo cotton balls, unrolled

About 8 feet of skin-colored worsted-weight yarn
About 20 feet of fuzzy, superbulky-weight white yarn for the robe (we used Divine by Patons)
5-mm sequin for eyes
Tacky glue

Instructions

Follow the first 4 steps of the
directions for making people.
Then separate the legs to form an A shape and bend the tip of each into a foot. Wrap cotton around the head and body, making it thicker at the wrists to create flared sleeves and filling out the A shape at the bottom of the robe.
Maintaining the A shape and flared sleeves, wrap the yarn for the head and robe according to the people directions (but keep the head stem up). Slip one end of an iridescent pipe cleaner through the stem loop and twist it back on itself. Fold down the stem and follow the steps for the female hairstyle, covering the stem.
Form the pipe cleaner into a halo. Trim the end and twist it back on itself to secure. Save the excess pipe cleaner.
Use 1 iridescent pipe cleaner to shape each wing, leaving about 1 inch at the bottom and twisting each loop in place to secure.
Twist together the 1-inch ends to join the left and right wings. Fold the ends into an upside-down U to create a hook. Use the pipe cleaner left over from the halo to create a belt, twisting the ends around the angel's waist and the wings to hold the wings in place. Use a dab of glue to secure the wings to the back if needed. To make eyes, cut the sequin in half and glue in place. Hang the angel from the paper clip on the stable roof.