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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Faux Stained Glass with Tin Foil & Sharpies


Here's a lovely faux stained glass project I've done for the past few years.
It always yields very pretty results. I usually teach this lesson right before Christmas, so students have a chance to do a Christmas/holiday theme if they want.
See my previous posts and instructions HERE and HERE and HERE.

For the background, we use cereal boxes. I collect these from teachers.


Cut the boxes down using a sturdy paper cutter.


On regular photocopy paper, students draw their chosen stained glass design. My student look up images online. Just type in 'stained glass patterns', etc. I encourage them to include a border. 



Then they slide their drawing into a page protector and outline all their pencil lines with a Sharpie. Then they colour in the design with coloured sharpies. 




Cut away the design and staple it onto the cereal box that has been covered with crumpled up aluminum foil. This year we tried attaching it using double sided tape, but it DID NOT stick at all. 
Stick with stapling, trust me!

Some finished Grade 7-9 artworks:




 





Two friends did a this artwork together.

A few Christmas themed ones:




A group of my girls always does a theme together. For this they did a mash-up of Disney heroines mixed with the villian, lol





A bass playing a bass!







 

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