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."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!
Does anyone know of any picture books that are illustrated in a stained-glass style?
Dover Little Activity Books have a line of stained glass colouring books, and Fiona French has 2 religious storybooks illustrated in stained glass style.
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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.
ReplyDeleteThere 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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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