Please can you give me a step by step guide to making angel wings?

[TheHollyAndTheTwiglett]

I have wire coat hangers (yuk .. got them from local dry cleaners specially .. hate them .. have an aversion to them) and silver foil

What else do I need?

And what do I do?

Please help .. 3 year old angel needs you

If you put foil over coat hangers its bound to rip in the middle where there is no support. Why not use cardboard off a cereal box. You can draw a template and cut out two. Spread out a length of foil on a hard surface, cover wing shapes in glue and press on. Cut round the wing shape leaving an extra 1/2 inch all the way round, and stick this over the edge. Repeat for other side, and other wing. You can punch holes in them to attack string so they can be worn backpack style with that posh parcel ribbon stuff. Cover in glitter etc. HTH

Do they have to be home-made? H & M sell them ITH

I have a fancy dress costume book which uses silver material insead of foil but you could probably adapt the method - although I think the foil might be a bit flimsy.

Straighten out the wire coathangers and ben the wire into wing shapes, two large ones and two smaller ones (the picture shows them as long, tapered shapes like dragonfly wings). Wire them together in pairs with florist's wire, with the large on at the top, then join the pairs in the centre with wire.

Draw around each individual wing onto silver fabric and cut out, each one needs doing twice. Stitch each pair together, turn inside out and slip over each wing.

Glue some tinsel around the edge of each wing, finish off with a strip of silver fabric, padded with wadding if you like, glued over the centre.

OK that's far too much of a fag .. think I'll send DH to ELC

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