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How To… Make (more) Christmas Elves

November 11, 2011

Hello! Welcome back to this week’s How To… and this week we have even MORE Christmas Elves. I just couldn’t resist. The basic elf is the same as the ones I showed you a couple of weeks ago, but your materials are slightly different.

This time instead of gumnuts and pine cones I used the “Japanes Lantern” fruit from the Physalis plant. It is a beauftiful beautiful orange and really reminds me of Autumn.

Physalis  are a typical Autumn plant and I have seen them in a number of front gardens (I believe they may even be a weed!). They are delicate and yet strangely sturdy. And make a wonderful Autumn or Christmas craft material.

Lampionblume christmas elf

Materials: Felt, a little wool (unravelled), wooden bead, “lampionblume” (Physalis plant), ribbon, paint & brush, hot glue gun or wood glue.

christmas elves

1) Cut out your felt pieces. For the long pointy hat, you need a long triangle. The two long sides of mine are approx 7cm long. For the green collar, I cut a circle. Then made 8 cuts into and cut out 8 point “leaves”.

christmas elves

2) Unravelled you wool and take about 8 strands. With the hot glue gun, glue your hat and ribbon together and then add your “hair”. Before I glued the hair in place, I check against the wooden bead how it would look the nicests.

christmas elves physalis

3) Assemble all your pieces and glue them in place with the hot glue gun – i.e. wooden bead to hair and hat, green collar to wooden bead, physalis to green collar.

christmas elves physalis

4) Paint your face. I used acrylics, as they do not run into the grain of the wood.

Finished! I love them!!!

These little Christmas Elves sure will stand out on the Christmas Tree!


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Filed Under: Autumn, Christmas, How To's, Nature 21 Comments

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  1. Nicki Cawood says

    November 11, 2011 at 9:51 am

    Oh they look gorgeous! Definitely one for our Christmas to-do list. I can see this being a very busy festive season! Now where will I find physalis?!

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  2. Red Ted Art says

    November 11, 2011 at 11:23 am

    Ah yes.. the Physalis… you can make them with pine cones though, am sure they would look lovely too!!!

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  3. Karen @ Feral Turtle says

    November 11, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    Ahhhhh Those are so cute. I used to grow Japanese lanterns in my yard. I might have to get some more plants in the spring.

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  4. Red Ted Art says

    November 11, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Oooh what a bonus to grow them yourself!

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  5. made by ewe says

    November 11, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    These are great and such a lovely colour with the physalis – just right for a grey autumn day

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  6. Muminator says

    November 11, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    These are lovely! I’m going to try and make some with my little boy, they’ll sit perfectly on the Christmas Tree.

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  7. Red Ted Art says

    November 11, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    Made by Ewe – oh yes, I love the contrast to autumn days!
    Muminator – hooray! Have fun!

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  8. Chris at Thinly Spread says

    November 11, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    Maggy, these are GORGEOUS! I have popped them on my ‘really want to have a go at this’ list, Thanks so much for linking to Festive Friday on Thinly Spread! x

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    • Red Ted Art says

      November 11, 2011 at 8:29 pm

      Aaaah thank you Chris. I was rather pleased with them too….

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  9. The Real Supermum says

    November 11, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    What an fantastic blog,These would be great to make with the children something that would get them all involved.Keep up the good work.

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  10. Little Wonders' Days says

    November 12, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    Those are ridiculously cute! Thank you for a wonderful tutorial.

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    • Red Ted Art says

      November 12, 2011 at 12:28 pm

      Thank you 🙂 *BEAM*

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  11. Carrie @ Crafty Moms Share says

    November 12, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    Thank you for sharing at Crafty Moms Share Sharing Saturday!! These are adorable!!

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  12. Becky from babybudgeting says

    November 13, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    I love these ! They are adorevble you should take a photo and pop on cards for Christmas

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    • Red Ted Art says

      November 13, 2011 at 5:34 pm

      Now there is an idea Becky!!!

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  13. Mummy..Mummy..MUM!! says

    November 13, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    They are sooo cute! I love them. x

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  14. The Outlaw Mom says

    November 16, 2011 at 12:28 am

    Eek! These are so cute. Hey, btw, I didn’t realize your tweets were telling me your comments were in my spam folder on the blog – thought the tweets were spam 🙂 Taken care of it!

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  15. Margot says

    November 17, 2011 at 11:55 am

    Absolutely adorable!!
    I think I will try to make them, if I find red physalis…
    Only yesterday I finished making advent calendar for my daughter and found this article in search for some more ideas.

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  16. Becky says

    November 18, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    These are adorable, thanks for linking up at Beyond the Picket Fence.

    Reply

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