Christmas isn't far away so I thought I would make these fun easy decorations.
They are made from brown card, felt and 'lashings' of glue.
Any size can be made to form a Rhudolph family
They are a little bit of wobbly springy Christmas fun.
First I cut four strips of card 5 cm wide I joined two together so I had two longs strips. I glued them at each end forming an L shape. I then folded one over the other until I came to the end, this formed the springy body.
I glued the ends together but left the short flap that was left this is what the head will to be stuck to.
I cut out some shapes from card for the front, back, head, antlers and ears. I stuck these on to felt, then cut them out, (the front and back are felted each side) the head, ears and antlers are different colours as a contrast.
I stuck the back and front of Rudolph on to the springy card body, leaving the flap on which to place the head.
I cut out some eyes and a mouth, stuck on a red pompom for his nose, this could be felt too. The eyes on the smaller Rudolph are plastic google eyes but I think I like the felt ones because they can be placed in different ways to give more character to the face.
The antlers and ears were glued in place and I stuck another circle of felt to the back of the head to neaten it up.
The legs were turned up a little at the bottom to form feet and then I stuck on some contrasting felt to resemble hooves. I gave him a little head decoration of holly but this could have been tinsel, or anything decorative.
The head was then glued to the flap at the front.
He was given a little curly felt tale
