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This weeks Unplug Your Kids' unplugged project is Glass. Now call me boring but of course the first thing that popped into my mind when I thought of glass was 'stained' glass :) So here's our version of a child friendly stained glass project!
Materials needed:
- assorted colors of tissue or crepe papers
- clear plastic sheets (8.5x11) used for overhead projectors
- simple (not a ton of detail) coloring pages
- paperclips
- scissors
- glue
- paintbrushes
First pick out a really simple coloring page to use. You want one that doesn't include a lot of detail so that it makes it nice and easy to fill in the spaces with odd shaped pieces of tissue or crepe paper.
Here's some of our crepe paper ready to use that you can either rip into little chunks or if you're like my son that loves to use scissors, what kid doesn't *grin* then let them hack it up into a million little pieces :)
You're probably wondering why we would use overhead projector plastic, but it works fantastic as a base for gluing your tissue onto and since it's see through you just paper clip your coloring page underneath of it and you've got an instant pattern ready to use!
Okay, let's get sticky! Squeeze a very generous amount of regular white school glue onto your plastic....
and using either a paintbrush or fingers work really well to, spread your glue around so that it completely covers your picture. Don't worry, you can still easily see your pattern through the glue :)
Now let the stained glass magic begin! Follow your pattern and fill in the different colors. When all of the paper sticking is finished add one more final coat of glue over the entire picture and let it dry completely. With your coloring page pattern still attached, take a black marker and trace all of the solid lines to create your stained glass effect :)
Here is one of our finished stained glass flowers :) We decided to cut it out of the sheet just around its perimeter to get rid of the excess plastic and hung it on the window with some of that re-usable sticky poster putty. The kids really liked how the light shone through it making neat patterns on the petals and leaves where the paper overlapped. The crepe paper reminds me of the paint you can by for glass that creates a frosted look :) Have fun making some stained glass creations of your own!
Blessings,
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