DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Angel Milk Carton Container

This makes a wonderful container to send home treats after a Christmas party at school, daycare or your home.

Or make one of these to place by the fireplace to hold the "stocking overflow".

This is a little harder to make than the reindeer carton (it is appropriate for age 4+).

Having said that, ages 2+ can do a really good job on the wings if mommy wants to do the face!

Materials:

• an empty 2 litre (1/2 gallon) milk carton.
• a printer (optional).
• Glue or tape.
• scissors,
• 2 sheets of white construction paper or typing paper.
• 1 sheet of yellow construction paper.
• cotton balls, cotton pillow stuffing or white feathers
• black marker or pencil crayon
• gold or silver glitter (optional)
• wiggly eyes (optional)

Instructions:

• Print and cut out the angel wing template or make your own template pieces, whichever you prefer.
• Put glue all over the wings, except on the little tab (if the kids get it on the tab, it isn't a huge deal).
• Pull apart cotton balls or cotton pillow stuffing, so it's nice and fluffy.
• Glue the cotton (or white feathers) all over the wings.
• Optional:  sprinkle some gold or silver glitter over the cottony wings and press it in with your hands.
• Cut the top off a milk carton and discard the top (or save it for a different craft).  You can cut off as much of the top as you like... it depends on how tall you want your container to be.
• Cover your milk carton with the white paper (it takes about 2 pieces).
• Cut a piece of yellow paper about 3 inches tall and as wide as the milk carton (about 5 inches).
• Cut slits (a fringe) in this piece and glue it to the front (these are the bangs).
• Cut two pieces of yellow paper as tall and as wide as the milk carton.
• Roll the paper around a pencil to curl.
• Cut slits in the roll to make curly hair.
• Glue the hair to the sides of the head.
• Glue the wings to the back of the carton (you may want to reinforce with one long strip of cardboard along the back, but it isn't necessary)
• Use a black marker or pencil to draw a face on the front (open "singing" mouth, freckles and closed eyes as in our photo is cute, but you can do it however you want!).
• You can also substitute wiggly eyes for hand-drawn eyes.
• Cut out a strip of cardboard or construction paper about 10 inches long and glue to the sides of the container to use as a handle.

Craft Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template for Angel Wing (B&W only)

Printable version of these instructions