Book Angel
For the book angel you need a book with a nice and sturdy cover, because this remains visible as a wing and provides good stability of the angel. The book should have 200-250 pages. Also needed: 1 Christmas tree ball as a head, a “song sheet” made of cardboard (about the size of a credit card) and 2 bells for the hands, drip-free all-purpose glue.
Cut out the first pages STOP please not the endpaper, that will be the hands holding the sheet music when the book “really” starts folding:
- Fold: fold the upper right corner into the center, use the beginning of the letters (type area) as a measuring tape.
- Fold: fold right edge, now slanted, back to center, parallel to first fold
- Fold: at the bottom, a small corner should now protrude, fold this sharply across the page into the book, so that the first two folds hold
In this way, all the pages of the book are folded.
The more pages are folded, the fuller the angel becomes, carefully bend the spine backwards at the edge of the table, then there is more room to fold further at the front.
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Fold the colored (golden) piece of cardboard once in the middle and “press” it into the angel’s hand without glue. So bend the endpaper carefully forward around the folded pages and test whether the song sheet has the right size. I first put a glue dot on one side of the endpaper, then glue it to the cardboard as desired and fix it with a clothespin, then the same procedure on the other side, push the song sheet correctly and let it dry. The angel can stand all the time.
When the glue is dry, please put the angel on his back, the wings can take it, and glue the clamps as hands, hold well until the glue is halfway dry, then let rest until the hands are really firm. (I always have glue on my fingers afterwards, being patient pays off).
Finally, put the angel back in place and glue the Christmas tree ball as a head. The folding automatically creates a hollow space between the book block and the book cover, into which the ball is hung. Let it dry and it’s done. I have sometimes glued a few stars to the wings and at the request of a child, an angel once got hair…
Every angel is unique and exactly how you design it.
geboren im Zeichen des Bücherwurms,
ist seit 1994 Buchhändlerin und liebt Gummibärchen.