How To Make Your Own Stained Glass Window Ornament

by: our staff

Stained glass is the colored glass you may have seen in church windows. Light shining
through it makes the colours glow. This ornament will glow like stained glass if you hang it in
a sunny window. To make your own Stained Glass Window Ornament you will need:
newspaper to cover work space: pictures from old magazines: white glue: light weight

cardboard: tissue paper: or crepe paper: twine: transparent tape. Tools needed: pencil:
scissors: foil pan: plastic straw or stick.

Find a picture about 4 inches high in an old magazine and cut it out. Then glue the picture to
lightweight cardboard for a pattern. Or you can draw your own pattern on cardboard if you like
to make it more original.

Cut out the cardboard pattern. Place the pattern on a piece of colored tissue paper or crepe

paper. Draw around the outline.

Mix some glue and water in a foil pan about two tablespoons of each. stir the mixture with a
straw or a stick.

Measure out enough twine to go all the way around the ornament’s outline. Dip the twine in the
glue-water mixture.

Lay the wet twine on the ornament’s outline, going all the way around. Cut off any twine left
over. You can decorate your ornament by gluing on pieces of tissue paper or crepe paper. Or
you can glue on additional twine.

When the twine is dry, cut out the ornament outside of the twine outline. Punch a hole with your
pencil at the top. Put a piece of twine through the hole for a hanger. Then all you have to do is
tape the hanger to a bright window with transparent tape, so that the light shows through and
you have your very own Stained-Glass Window Ornament.