Stained Glass Project

 



Project: Students learn about the history of stained glass and how it is used in historical buildings. Students will need colored sharpies, acetate paper, puffy paint, and a design to trace onto the acetate paper.   Students will use a sharpie to first trace their design on the acetate paper. Next, they will create different shapes around their design to create stained glass pieces. Once everything is outlined students can color in their stained glass creations using warm and cool colors. Finally, after everything is colored in, students can use their puffy paint to outline the stained glass pieces to give the texture of a real stained glass window. 

My Project: For my stained glass creation, I chose to create a flower design and used warm colors for the flower. For the background, I made random lines to create different shapes and colored those in with cool colors in order to make the flower stand out and not blend in with the background. Once the entire acetate paper was colored, I started to use the puffy paint to create the outlines of the "glass". I chose to use black puffy paint because most of the stained glass windows I have seen have outlined the glass in black. 

Activity: I could integrate this activity into an early education math lesson about shapes. Students would have to use geometric shapes to create their design and background instead of random unidentifiable shapes that I used in my project. Later, they could count up all the squares, triangles, rectangles, etc. that they used on their project.

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