Pretty Paper Angel Garland

We have been reading Milly-Molly-Mandy- Granny’s favourite stories- at bedtime of late. In one tale, ‘Teacher’ comes to stay at Milly-Molly-Mandy’s home and astounds the child by making ‘little sailor girls’. I remember making the same thing from newspaper as a child.

My Girls were interested to know what these little sailor girls were, so I showed them how you make a string of ‘little girls’ by concertina-ing a length of paper, and cutting out a girl shape (being careful, of course, not to cut at the edge and sever their little hands).

Then I gave them googly eyes, crayons, stickers and bits and pieces of paper and left them to dress their little girls as they wished. I have no idea how, but we ended up making angels. We added wings to each little angel using a sparkly and golden paper- I actually cut a small heart shape to use.

Then hang on the wall to await Christmas.