How to Make Festive Skittles

* Cardboard Toilet Roll Tube

* Acrylic Paint - Skin Colour, Hair Colour

* Pipe Cleaners - Silver, Brown

* Googly Eyes

* Orange Pom Pom

* A4 Felt - White, Black, Green

* Elastic Band (Optional)

* Dried Rice

* Card

* Scissors

* Glue

Snowman

Begin by making a base for the tube. Draw around one end of a cardboard tube onto card, then draw a slightly larger circle around this. Cut out the larger circle and make snips towards the smaller circle. Fold up to form tabs. Glue the tabs of the lid into the bottom of the tube and leave to dry.

Then paint the whole tube white. When this is dry, add 3 tablespoons of rice into the tube to weigh the skittle down.

Cut a large strip of black felt and glue it around the top of the tube to make a hat. Add glue around the top and pinch to glue together. You can wrap an elastic band around the hat whilst the glue dries if you need to.

Fold and glue a brown pipe cleaner around the back and bend the ends to form hands. Glue on a felt scarf, a pom pom nose, felt buttons and a pair of googly eyes.

Angel

Make two cardboard lids, one for either end of the tube (Follow instructions for snowman.) Glue the bottom one in place, add rice, then glue the top one in.

Paint on the face and hair. Leave to dry.

Add a white felt dress and glue a pair of felt wings on the back. Twist a silver pipe cleaner into a halo and poke the end into the back of the head. Twist a silver pipe cleaner around the neck and finish with googly eyes.