Last week I was looking for a fun craft for both my children and decided to have them make stained glass crosses. We had all the supplies on hand--tissue paper (that I cut into squares), clear contact paper, and black paper (that I cut into two cross outlines per child).
I taped down a section of contact paper (sticky side up!) for each child and put down a cross outline. Each child also received an individual bowl of tissue paper squares. Taping down the contact paper helped keep their projects from moving.
My preschooler went for the random approach for his stained glass cross.
My second grader aimed to cover every exposed area of her cross.
When your child is done with their masterpiece, put the second cross outline on top of the first (to hide the spots where the tissue paper overlapped the first outline). Then put a second sheet of contact paper down--with the sticky side on top of the artwork to seal everything inside. The final step is to trim around the project.
Beautiful!
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What a neat idea, I love the result. I may try this with my School of Religion class before the end of the year if I can easily/cheaply gather the supplies.
ReplyDeleteCool idea! I'll have to keep it in mind for my boys to do later around Easter. It'll be so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI really like this idea! Great project for the start of Lent! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSorry, last comment was from me, my daughter was "helping" me type:)
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! I'm definitely going to do this with my kids!!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to try this with the kids I babysit!! It turned out awesome!! if you have a chance come link up to Handmade Tuesdays @ Ladybug Blessings www.ladybug-blessings.com
ReplyDeleteLove it going to use it for my raindows class
ReplyDeleteThis is great and we are about to start it right now!!! Thanks so much for sharing this!
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