Monday, July 21, 2008

Unplug your kids- Glass

This week's unplugged project theme was glass. We made three types of "stained glass".
We started with contact and tissue paper. Sean really enjoys ripping paper. I just hope I didn't give him any ideas, but I haven't found any torn book pages.































The next day we used coffee filters and markers. I had googled "stained glass art project" (or something along those lines) and I came across this. I had to help Sean a lot and he lost interest quickly on this one.




































Last one we did was with crayon shavings and wax paper. I melted them in a warm oven for just a couple of seconds. Once James and I got the crayon shavings ready, Sean jumped right in.


















They all look really nice hanging on my glass slider!

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great stained glass projects :) We did one to *grin*

Gottfredsen said...

Those came out so cool!

Kari said...

They turned out great!

Mama Said Sew said...

Those are all great projects. I love all the different shapes and colors when they're displayed together. :)

Christie said...

What a nice display. Looks like a fun week.

Dayna said...

I love how your window looks with all the stained glass art hanging on them! Nice job. My daughter walked by as I was reading your post and she saw the muffin tins and said "Oh I like those rainbow cookies"

Annie Scarlett said...

What a pretty window display. It looks like they had a lot of fun.

This Girl loves to Talk said...

Those are so cute... I was going to do that too, but I cant find any contact paper near me (i dont have a car and just shop at the local shops) so next time I am out... I am buying contact!! We did glass printing

So Smrt said...

So you put the wax paper and crayon shavings all in the oven?

Anonymous said...

The finished result looks so pretty! I like how you tried so many different variations on the same theme.

Anonymous said...

Your display of artwork looks awesome! :) Great projects! :)

Garden State Kate said...

Lovely, we forgot to do a "glass" project, but we're enjoying everyone else's.

Michie said...

We did tissue and contact paper too, but yours looks more "professional" framed in black. They all look so nice on your window!

I'm intrigued by the coffee filter one. I've done water on coffee filters before to make other things, but never made a "print" using them. I might have to experiment with them! Thanks for the idea.

Chrissy said...

Beautiful, and I love how you found so many different ways of creating the stained glass effect.

Robyn said...

Yes, I had the boys make them on cookie sheets. I put the oven on the lowest setting. I'm not sure how long they were in there, but it was only a couple of minutes. I really didn't want to bring out the iron with Sean around. :)