We made a new rainbow stained glass window for the front door. And you know how I am about color. I love it. I’ve been wanting to try this ever since we made the other scribble stained glass, and this seems a good time with Maia’s birthday around the corner and “rainbow” part of her requested party theme (rainbow fairies, princesses, and unicorns).
Here’s how we made it ::
A DIY Rainbow Stained Glass Window
1. The girls scribbled all over a sheet of easel roll with oil pastels
(crayons would work, too).
2. I used a piece of paper the size of the window panes as a template to trace each rectangle.
3. Maia painted in the rectangles with liquid watercolors.
4. After the paper dried, I cut out the rectangles, painted the back of each with vegetable oil, then stuck them to the window panes. Easy peasy.
And now we have a wonderfully colorful rainbow stained glass window for our front door!
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LOVE LUV LOVE LUV LOVE LUV!!!!!
Just this minute have joined Pinterest. You’re will be the first in a new category of rainbows!!
Debbie
i love this and have the perfect door for it. how long do you think the paper will stick to the window panes with the vegetable oil?
I’m also curious about the vegetable oil. You just cover the entire backside of it with it?
lovely! lovely! lovely! one question…do you use anything to stick it to the windows or does it become like a window cling and aheres by itself?
How inspiring!! We must start this project right away.
I even have the veggie oil – so awesome. And beautiful.
xoxo michele
Those look incredible. I think I might have to do some. Oh, and maybe the kids too. :)
Gorgeous and beautiful and wonderful! You have such WONDERFUL ideas!
Love your stuff.. :-)
Maggy
You use liquid water colors a lot. Where do you get them?
Oh, this is awesome! We have a group of windows next to our front door with an ugly curtain over it… this is so much better I cannot wait to do it!
Thanks for the great idea!
so easy! i’m going to try this one. thank you.
That is the most inspiring idea… I’m in awe!!!
I so want to try this for our front door panel.. may be a bit big for us though?? haha
Oh my it looks AWESOME! I need a different type of door to our house now so that I could do this too.
Neat! Great idea of sticking them on with vegetable oil. We will have to try this in our playroom :)
Yay! Pinterest is so fun!
Indefinitely? We’ve had previous stained glass up for months at a time anyway.
Yes, I just use a pastry brush or regular brush and paint the entire backside with it. Not thickly, just enough to cover.
The oily paper sticks to the glass by itself.
I get ours from Discount School Supply: http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=16821&keyword=liquid%20watercolors&scategoryid=0&CategorySearch=&Brand=&Price=
Hi Jean! I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your blog. I wish I had found it when I was teaching pre-school! I have a blog dedicated to sharing arts & crafts projects for children and I wrote a post about you, encouraging my mom and teacher friends to follow you. Here is the link…
http://anklebiterart.blogspot.com/2011/08/artful-parent.html
I hope you are having a wonderful week!
It’s gorgeous! Wow, THAT is party decor I can get behind.
i love this idea! now that my daughter is two and half, we are incorporating a lot of art projects into our days–i’m going to have to add this one to the list. thanks for all of the great ideas that you share on your blog–i love the way that you focus on easy, accessible projects to foster creativity and art learning.
oh i really love the vibrancy of this set! makes me think i need to redo ours now!!
awesome. thanks so much. this project is on our weekend list :)
I think I may try something like this for the arched window above my front door!
I love this idea. We have the same front door with the window panes! I have curtains right now but it would have fun and colorful to do this!
I did this project today with my toddler. Not sure it was the best project for a toddler, but we had fun. Wish I had used baby oil or mineral oil, the veggie oil has an odor, but the door looks great!
I bet it would be handy to keep the measurements for all my windows on hand just for projects like this!
Hi
My kids and I did this project today and I love it. Our watercolours are not so bright so I think I will invest in the liquid watercolors.
The project had 2 bonuses: 1. I found a neat way of incorporating/ displaying the kids art in our home. 2.Our front door use to have a view into the guest bathroom, what a clever way of solving that little problem.
And yes, I wish I could do it with all the windows in our house. Sigh ;-)
This might be a dumb question but what kind of oil? cooking oil/baby oil???thanks love this!
Wow, incredible. You can make a fortune out of these…j/k. Well, it is art, and it would be better appreciated if you don’t put a price on it.
Looking at these pictures, it seems that your children had a wonderful time decorating the rainbow stained glass window of your house.The scribbled design chosen by your children looks so lively and colorful! It is a masterful piece by your children. It’s a good thing that you were able to instill in their young minds the importance of cooperation.
I love your blog Jean! And I love this idea! I have a question. We rent our home. Does the paper easily come off when needed? Is it difficult to clean?
So cute!
I’d love it if you shared this with the Fun Family Crafts audience.
FFC is similar to Craftgawker but it only features kid friendly tutorials.
Looking forward to seeing what fun crafts you submit!
http://funfamilycrafts.com
Because I’m slow — you surely had to tape them to the window panes, right? The veggie oil didn’t stick them…. This is so gorgeous, and I want to try it in some way!
What a cute idea for creative little kids to show off their talent for everyone to see…Not to say it would only be good for children though, I think I would like to take a stab at it myself. ;-}
Hi! I’m just wondering if light can still pass through the paper? I’d like to do this for my dorm window :D and I wouldn’t want my room to get dark.
Hi, might sound like a silly question, but the vegetable oil doesn’t damage the surrounding? And do you get the oil off simply with soap and water or household cleaner?