"Quick and Fun, Easy to Make-Paper Stained Glass"
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Author: Larry_Seiler, Contributing Editor
 | As an intense and impassioned professional artist, I find frequent moments of great release and fun in the explorations and aesthetic discoveries of my students. Not every project has to be difficult, and not every simple project ought to be discounted as having little merit. I have found this project not only easy, but capable everytime, at any age, to capture our enjoyment of color. To see combinations of color as they mix, and learn to alter moods and expression with simple design. This paper stained glass project is so simple, and as easy as reaching for one of your coffee maker's filters! |
| Materials are simple, and inexpensive. A coffee filter, 9" x 12" piece of black construction paper, glue, newspapers for any mess, several sheets of white copy paper, and water soluable markers such as Crayola. |  |
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| Color the filter with a variety of color, and since colors will flow and mix, don't overlap any. You especially want children to see the mixing come together spontaneously. This is a good time depending upon age group and class to work on basic primaries, or color relationships such as triads or analogous colors, or even complimentaries. I often do this as a fall seasonal project, emphasizing colors relating to fall...near the Halloween time, which gives me an alternative to what is frequently given over to themes I don't generally appreciate- such as evil, violence, and the macabre. Before spraying, set the colored filter on top of a piece of white copy paper. |
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