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Super Easy Stained Glass Art Project for Kids

April 4, 2009

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The kids and I love to decorate the windows. We often paint directly to the glass but sometimes you want something that’s easily removable like this easy stained glass art project.

Easy faux stained glass art project for kids using cellophane

First I cut the sides of a plastic sheet protector so that it folded open. Then I gave Kiddo some colored cellophane that I had cut into shapes. A better alternative would be to have the child cut out shapes, but that kind of focus was beyond Kiddo today.

Kiddo placed the shapes on the plastic. It seems so obvious now, but I had not thought of putting the cellophane on both sides of the plastic! As he did that I thought, “ooooh, color mixing! Excellent twist.”

Easy faux stained glass art for kids using cellophane

Once Kiddo was done we taped it shut and hung it up in the window. It was pretty challenging to get a photo without the fire escape or child safety bars in the background!

UPDATE: you can also take a look at our awesome Cellophane Stained Glass Window Art that we made with a soap and water solution!

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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 4 Comments

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  1. SkylarKD says

    April 5, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Dover Little Activity Books have a line of stained glass colouring books, and Fiona French has 2 religious storybooks illustrated in stained glass style.

    I nominated you for a blog award today. Come on over and check it out! 🙂

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  2. Christy says

    April 7, 2009 at 11:20 am

    We have used contact paper to do this. It’s nice because the tissue paper sticks to it and then you just cover it up with another sheet of contact paper.

    There is a Christmas book called Din Dan Don (I think) that is illustrated to look like stained glass. We borrowed it from the library last year and my kids oohed and aahed.

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  3. Kristin says

    April 17, 2009 at 6:47 am

    Those are really great, I am definitely doing this with mine – do you just get coloured cellophane at the craft store? I second the Dover stained glass colouring books, you can colour both sides of the page and with different things, wax, paint, etc. and it looks really great.

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  4. Mom and Kiddo says

    April 17, 2009 at 8:11 am

    I got the paper at the small local art store here. I’m sure any large art and craft store would have it.

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