How To Make Stained Glass Windows With Paper

Paper Arts and crafts Idea: How to Make your stained glass window

Today is a very rainy day and I needed a fun project to go along the kids entertained so I don't go basics. We love doing fine art projects and we take so much fun when nosotros have an idea of what we can make. Getting some sort of inspiration tends to take the longest for us. Information technology's easy to bust out the art supplies just having some sort of direction makes it much better. The creativity soars when you actually requite the kids some sort of job. This project takes some fourth dimension to so it's perfect for our rainy day projection. If y'all need some more art project inspiration ideas you should check out our Batik Art Projection glue technique and our 3D Hand Art Project that was made with crayons! Both are wonder kids projects.

Here's how nosotros fabricated this project.

Supplies Needed:

wax paper
black construction paper
assorted colors of tissue gift wrap paper
pair of scissors
white glue
med/big sized artist paintbrush

How to Brand your stained glass window:

1.) Start with a slice of blackness construction paper. fold each edge in about 1 1/2 inches and brand a crease in the folds.
two.) Cutting one of the corners diagonally and cut the inside creases to make a frame.
3.) Lay the frame on a slice of wax newspaper that is a little larger than the frame.
4.) Apply the inside piece of the black construction paper to cutting various shapes or designs for the inside of your stained glass frame.
5.) Arrange the black construction paper shapes on the wax paper using the glue to secure them as y'all go.
TIP: You tin arrange your entire design on the wax newspaper earlier gluing to make sure y'all accept the blueprint that y'all desire.
vi.) In one case all the within pieces are glues downwardly, Glue the frame slice effectually the edges and allow dry out.
vii.) Trim the backlog wax paper from around the frame and flip over so that the construction paper is on the bottom.
viii.) Go out your colored tissue paper, scissors, glue and paintbrush.
9.) Begin trimming or trigger-happy pieces of tissue newspaper to comprehend the bare spaces in the stained glass design. Use the paintbrush to smoothen a thin layer of glue on the wax newspaper and then gently employ your tissue paper.
TIP: The tissue paper can wrinkle and tear easily so be gentle during this process.
10.) Continue until all the spaces are filled.
TIP: Feel free to layer colors over each other for a different effect.
11.) Allow this dry completely.

Your stained glass art masterpiece is ready to hang in a window to show the lite coming through.
Utilise double sided articulate record to adhere information technology to the window.

Hither are a few process photos we took along the way: