Valentine's Craft - Heart Stained Glass Window

Charlotte came home from school last year with a "stained glass" art project made from construction paper, tissue paper, and contact paper.  I knew that I could recreate it very simply but it's taken me almost a year to get around to doing it!  You can modify this for any holiday or shape, I just chose to do our first one with hearts for Valentine's Day.

Heart Stained Glass Window

Materials:

Construction Paper

Contact Paper

Glue

Tissue paper

Scissors

1. Freehand a heart on a piece of construction paper.  Cut it out.

2. Freehand a smaller heart inside the first and cut out the middle.

3. If you want a second layer, using the larger heart's opening as a guide, draw a heart that will cover the edge of the larger heart's inside heart.  Cut it out.

This is what both of the hearts on top of each other should look like.  The smaller heart overlaps onto the larger heart.

4. Trace the heart pattern that you want on contact paper.  

Notes about this step:

- You can find contact paper with the drawer liners at the store

- Make sure you cut it with the sticky side to go ON TOP of the larger heart so that the sticky side is facing the back.

- Be careful to avoid guide lines that you've drawn on the final piece of contact paper because if you don't have a smaller piece to cover the edges of the contact paper you'll be able to see them

5. Cut tissue paper into small shapes.  You can use as many or as few colors and pieces as you want.

6. Peel the backing off of the contact paper and stick the paper to the large heart, covering the opening.

7. If you cut a smaller heart for the front, use glue to glue it on top of the contact paper.

8. Once the glue has dried, set it out for your child with the sticky side up and let them go!

It's not required, but much more fun if you have a cheering section!

9. Once it's finished press it onto the window to let it stick!  If you don't want it on the window you could cut two pieces of contact paper and seal the tissue paper in so that there is no sticky part.