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Making Pasta Angel Ornaments


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December 1, 2005

Finished angels.These are instructions for making macaroni angel Christmas ornaments. My mom Susan made these for all of her children and friends many years ago. I was a young child at the time and thought it was just about the coolest thing ever. Ornaments like these adorn our trees to this day.

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This project does take some time waiting for parts to dry. I would suggest doing a few at the same time, step by step, this way when you are done you will have more than one and can give them away to all your friends and family.

The cost of the supplies can be expensive because some of the pastas are unique, but most are available in a good supermarket (you can cook all the leftovers!). You can make lots of angels or eat the leftover pasta. We've made these to look like different people.

Supplies:

Supplies
 

Paint:

Painting supplies.
 
Additional supplies, pipe cleaners etc.
 

Angel Bodies (pasta):

  1. Glue a wheel pasta on top of a rigatoni pasta. Let dry completely.
  2. Body construction, Rigatoni and wheel pasta.
     

  3. Attach two elbow macaroni to the sides of the rigatoni right under the wheel pasta as arms. Let dry completely.
  4. Attaching elbow macaroni arms.
     

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  5. Attach a bow tie pasta to the rigatoni on the opposite side as the arms. This will be the wings. Let dry completely.
  6. Making body, bowtie wings.
     

  7. Once everything is dry you can decide if you want to paint the body or if you want to keep in natural looking. It is recommended that if you want to keep it natural colored to spray it with shellac so it won't absorb moisture.

Angel Heads (wooden beads):

  1. Paint the bead the color you would like, let dry.
  2. For short hair, put glue on the bead where you would like hair (leave room for face) and roll in the anici di pepe pasta, let dry, then paint it the color desired. These look good all the same color (see little gold angel).
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  4. For long hair, put some glue inside the bead hole then take a few strands of embroidery floss and stuff it part way down into the hole, let dry. Then take glue and put it on the wooden bead where you would like the hair to fall, press the embroidery floss on to the glue, let dry.
  5. Embroidery floss for hair.
     

  6. Draw on a face with a thin tipped permanent marker or burn features on with a wood burner.
  7. Cut down one of the pipe cleaners and attach the two ends together to make a circle. This will be the halo. Glue to the top of the head.
  8. Macaroni Angel
     

Putting It All Together:

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  1. If you want the bodies to be a different color than the head, make sure to spray paint them before putting the angel together. If you want them all one color including the head, leave off the halo and spray paint the whole angel, flipping it over once it is dried on one side.
  2. To attach the head to the body, take another short piece of pipe cleaner and put glue on one end and stick it into the middle of the wheel pasta. Put glue on the other end and place that end into the hole in the wooden bead, this will help secure the head in place. Now glue around the bottom of the wooden bead where the head touches the wheel pasta, for extra security.

Finishing Touches:

  1. Now your angel is put together and can be embellished with glitter paint if desired.
  2. Put a string through the wheel near the wings and tie the two ends together, to hang. Normally we use a very thin gold cord for the hanger, thin ribbon will also work.
  3. Angels hanging on a branch.
     

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  4. You can make these look like your friends and family by adjusting the skin color, hair color, eye color, etc. You can even write the name of the person on a piece of leather or fabric and glue to the lower part of the angel body.
Closeup of finished angel.
 
Closeup of finished angel.
 

Craft By Susan Sanders-Kinzel and Stella Sanders Rivét

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Silver Post Medal for All Time! 288 Posts
October 10, 2011

The "heads had the faces painted on already. I painted the rice "hair" after it was glued on. On some, I used hot glue. For others, when I had the time, I glued with tacky glue.

Completed angel.

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Bronze Post Medal for All Time! 148 Posts
December 20, 2008

This is an ornament that the kids can help make. A nice addition to the tree. My version is rather unique since I use a tree branch for the body, a bead from an old car seat for the head, and popcorn for the hair.

front and back of angel

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