Today, I got an idea for a craft project off another website and decided to give it a try with Isabel (and myself). Enjoy!
We started with a mound of tissue paper (mostly pastels and one a bit SPARKLY!) that I have been saving from Isabel’s baby shower (if you can believe that!). We each took a color and then ripped it down to about the size of a silver dollar or smaller in size.
Being goofy with tissue paper strips.
I then cut a fairly good piece of contact paper, which I folded in half for her to work with the bottom half, the top half, I kept the paper on until she was finished. I told her just to lay the tissue paper any which way on the sticky contact paper. There is no wrong way to do it. After she said she was finished, I took the other half of contact paper, peeled the paper and slowly flipped it back onto the stained glass artwork that she had completed.
Her finished stained glass (can’t make it out because the flash went off).
While she was working on her masterpiece, she wanted me to do one as well
(mine is on the right, if you can’t tell).
I was thinking about doing this project again but doing a more controlled project with shapes (like hearts, circles, stars, squares, etc.) and having her fill in the shape with tissue paper or newspaper (whatever!). So we’ll see, the possibilities are endless and she really had a lot of fun doing it.