Plastic Wrap Stained “Glass”
Fun Fact: Stained glass may go back as far as 2700 BCE! Human-made colored glass beads were discovered amongst Ancient Egyptian artifacts!
- 12” x 16” piece of plastic wrap: size can be adjusted to your liking!
- Tape: painters or scotch
- Food Coloring
- Paint Brush and/or qtips
Create Your Base
- Tape your plastic wrap to a flat surface: the tape will ensure your plastic wrap doesn’t wrinkle and move around as you work
- Make it as flat as you can but some bumps are no big deal! Remember: artmaking doesn’t have to be perfect!
- Gather your glue, food coloring, and your painting tools
- There are many ways to set up your paints but we suggest using a few small containers!
- Pour a cherry sized glob of glue into your separate containers
- Drip a couple drops of your food coloring onto your glue, creating different colors in each container! Stir ‘em up!
- Paint paint paint right on your plastic wrap! Painting blobs and getting messy can be encouraged, just remember the thicker the glue, the longer the dry time.
- The fun of this is that it can appeal to all ages: little ones can make marks and lines while your older artists can really think about color mixing, pattern creating, and/or imagery!
- This may take a day or two to dry. If you can set it out in the sun to dry, even better.
- When dry, hang your stained glass creation up and watch the colors glisten!
Cut up strips of construction paper: tape to the edges of your masterpiece to make a frame