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Instructions No. 1368 Instructions No. 1368 Difficulty: Advanced Working time: 40 Minutes
The cute Christmas bags are a great souvenir for the Advent season. They are quickly made with the help of these instructions and can be filled with little treats and more.
Here's how it's done
Each bag consists of a papier-mâché cone (hollow inside ), Crêpepaper and for decoration Foam sheets, Polystyrene and other materials for decoration.
For the faces please cut with a knife first a Polystyrene ball (approx. Ø 6 cm) in two parts. Download the motif template and transfer the motifs of your favourite figure to coloured Foam sheets.
Santa bag
First paint the cone with red Handicraft paint. Half of Polystyrene ball is painted skin-coloured.
Cut out the cap, beard and nose from red and white Foam sheets using the design template . Glue the cap, moustache and nose together using foam rubber glue. The bobble of the pointed cap is decorated with self-adhesive glitter foil. As soon as the Polystyrene ball has dried, the cap and beard are glued to the bobble. position and fix Wobbly eyes and finally paint on the eyebrows with a black Fineliners
As bag closure, silver Crêpepaper is glued onto the edge of the cone. The glued seam can be excellently laminated with a serrated strand. The crepe paper is cut into shape with a pair of serrated scissors and tied up with Satin ribbon, decorated with Jingles
Cover the tip of the bag with glitter foil, fix the face to the bag with hot glue and paint on small white "buttons" with white liner.
Each bag consists of a papier-mâché cone (hollow inside ), Crêpepaper and for decoration Foam sheets, Polystyrene and other materials for decoration.
For the faces please cut with a knife first a Polystyrene ball (approx. Ø 6 cm) in two parts. Download the motif template and transfer the motifs of your favourite figure to coloured Foam sheets.
Santa bag
First paint the cone with red Handicraft paint. Half of Polystyrene ball is painted skin-coloured.
Cut out the cap, beard and nose from red and white Foam sheets using the design template . Glue the cap, moustache and nose together using foam rubber glue. The bobble of the pointed cap is decorated with self-adhesive glitter foil. As soon as the Polystyrene ball has dried, the cap and beard are glued to the bobble. position and fix Wobbly eyes and finally paint on the eyebrows with a black Fineliners
As bag closure, silver Crêpepaper is glued onto the edge of the cone. The glued seam can be excellently laminated with a serrated strand. The crepe paper is cut into shape with a pair of serrated scissors and tied up with Satin ribbon, decorated with Jingles
Cover the tip of the bag with glitter foil, fix the face to the bag with hot glue and paint on small white "buttons" with white liner.
Snowman and reindeer bag
These two bags are made in the same way as the Santa Claus bag. For the snowman the cone is painted white, the reindeer has a brown cone and a polystyrene head. Cylinder, bow tie, carrot, antler or nose are all on the motif template and are made from Foam sheets . As "icing on the cake" on the reindeer, a wooden "star" was used as decoration.
Extra tip:
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