Angel Popsicle Stick Craft

This angel popsicle stick craft is a sweet, simple project that fits beautifully into the Christmas season. It’s easy enough for kids to help with, but detailed enough to feel special once it’s finished. The handprint wings, soft colors, and little halo turn basic craft sticks into something keepsake-worthy.

If you’re looking for a holiday craft that doesn’t feel rushed or overwhelming, this one is a lovely place to start.

Paper angel craft displayed on a purple background with layered text reading “angel popsicle craft sticks” over the image.

Materials for This Angel Popsicle Stick Craft

Before you begin, gather your supplies and set up a comfortable workspace. This craft uses familiar materials and leaves plenty of room for personal touches, whether that’s color choices, wing shapes, or added details.

Materials:

Jumbo craft sticks
Gold tinsel chenille stem
Glue gun and glue sticks
Gold glitter glue
Wooden star
Acrylic craft paint (white, yellow, pink, and a flesh tone of choice)
Cardstock (white, gold, brown, and a flesh tone of choice)
Scissors
Paintbrush
Black marker
Pencil with a new eraser

Once everything is ready, you can move right into building the angel.

How to Make an Angel Popsicle Stick Craft

This craft has a few parts, but none of them are tricky. It’s mostly paint, cut, glue, and then stand back and admire how cute it turned out.

Step 1: Gather your supplies.

Set everything out on your work surface so you are not hunting for scissors with wet paint on your hands. Plug in your glue gun if you’re using one, and keep a scrap piece of paper nearby for testing glitter glue.

Craft supplies on a white wood surface including acrylic paint bottles, craft sticks, a glue gun, scissors, cardstock, glitter glue, and small wooden star shapes.

Step 2: Make the angel body.

Create a triangle using three jumbo craft sticks. Secure the corners with hot glue.

Tip: You can use liquid craft glue, but you will need to wait for it to dry before moving on.

Wooden craft sticks arranged in angled shapes on a white wood background with a hot glue gun applying glue to one stick.

Step 3: Paint the craft stick triangle.

Paint the triangle with white acrylic paint. Let it dry completely, then add a second coat if you can still see the wood showing through.

Three glued craft sticks painted white forming a triangular shape, with a paintbrush and white acrylic paint bottle nearby.

Step 4: Trace the angel body pattern.

Download, print, and cut out the angel patterns. Trace the angel body pattern onto white cardstock with a pencil.

Pencil tracing a large triangle shape on white paper next to a cut white triangle on a wood surface.

Step 5: Cut out the body backing.

Cut out the cardstock body, making sure to cut inside the traced lines so the edges look clean when it’s attached.

Scissors resting on a cut white paper triangle on a white wood background.

Step 6: Glue the body backing to the triangle.

Glue the white cardstock body onto the back of the craft stick triangle.

Stacked white paper triangles glued together, with a hot glue gun positioned near the top edge.

Step 7: Make and paint the arms and hands.

Cut one jumbo craft stick in half to create the arms. Paint the arms white. Paint the hands using a flesh tone acrylic paint of your choice. Let everything dry, then apply a second coat if needed.

Two acrylic paint bottles labeled white and warm beige with a paintbrush and partially painted craft sticks on a white wood background.

Step 8: Paint cardstock if needed.

If you do not have cardstock that matches your flesh tone paint, paint white cardstock with your chosen flesh tone acrylic paint and let it dry.

Beige cardstock painted with skin-tone acrylic paint using a flat paintbrush on a white wood surface.

Step 9: Trace the head, hair, and wings.

Trace the angel head onto flesh tone cardstock. Trace the hair onto brown cardstock. Trace the angel wings twice onto gold cardstock using a pencil.

Tip: If you want the wings to feel extra personal, trace your child’s hand for the wing shapes.

Traced hand shapes on yellow cardstock with a pencil, alongside cut paper pieces in white, brown, and skin-tone colors on a wood surface.

Step 10: Cut out all pattern pieces.

Cut out the head, hair, and wings, again cutting inside the traced lines for a clean finished look.

Cut yellow paper hand shapes, a brown paper shape, and a beige paper circle laid out on a white wood background with scissors above.

Step 11: Make the face.

Attach the hair to the head with hot glue. Draw half-circle closed eyes on the face with a black marker. Create rosy cheeks by dipping a new pencil eraser into pink paint and stamping one dot on each side of the face.

Paper angel face with brown hair and closed eyes on a white wood surface, with pink acrylic paint, a pencil, and a black marker nearby.

Step 12: Create the halo.

Bend a gold tinsel chenille stem in half. Form a circle with about a one-inch tail at the bottom, then twist the ends to secure the halo shape.

Gold glitter pipe cleaners bent into a loop and a straight piece on a white wood background.

Step 13: Paint the star.

Basecoat the wooden star with yellow acrylic paint. Let it dry, and apply a second coat if needed.

Wooden star shapes on a white wood surface with one star painted yellow, next to yellow acrylic paint and a paintbrush.

Step 14: Assemble the angel.

Attach the head to the body. Glue the arms to the body. Glue the wings to either side of the back of the angel body. Glue the star to the hands. Glue the halo to the back of the head.

Paper angel with yellow paper wings and a gold pipe cleaner halo being positioned above the head, with a hot glue gun nearby.

Step 15: Add glitter glue wing details.

Use gold glitter glue to draw scalloped lines on the wings to create feather details. Set the craft aside until the glitter glue is fully dry.

Paper angel with yellow wings decorated with glitter glue details, a wooden star attached, and a glitter glue bottle beside it.

Step 16: Hang your finished angel on display.

Once everything is completely dry, your angel is ready to show off. Hang it on a Christmas tree, add it to a holiday garland, or display it on a wall or door.

If you want to use it as a place card or gift topper, you can also write a name on the body with a marker once the paint is dry.