Make stained glass leaves using waxed paper and crayon shavings. These fun fall decorations look great in a window!
Updated August 2025
If you’ve made our suncatcher heartstrings with crayon shavings and waxed paper, then you’ll love this fall version.
All you need to do is sprinkle crayon shavings between two pieces of wax paper, melt them with a warm iron, and then cut out leaf shapes. Use fall colors like red, orange, yellow, and green to make them look like real leaves.
Hang them up, and the sunlight will shine through, making your leaves glow just like stained glass.
Here’s how to make these fun and easy suncatcher leaves!
How to Make Stained Glass Leaves for Kids
MATERIALS
- Cheese grater
- Crayons in Fall colors
- Bowls or muffin tin
- Iron
- Wax paper
- Scissors
- Ironing board
- Newsprint or scrap paper
INSTRUCTIONS
- Prep your materials
First, grate the crayons. Be sure to keep the colors separate in bowls or muffin tin sections.
Then, preheat the iron to the cotton setting. Make sure to turn off the steam.
Lastly, prep the wax paper. Cut a length of it and fold it in half, making a crease at the center.
- Sprinkle grated crayons over the wax paper
Cover one half of the wax paper with crayon shavings. Fold the other half on top to cover the crayon shavings, so it resembles a sandwich.
- Melt the crayon shavings
Carefully set the wax paper sandwich on your ironing board between layers of newsprint (the newsprint will protect your iron from being damaged by the melting crayon). Iron the sandwich enough to melt the crayon.
- Create leaves!
Make as many as you’d like and then cut the melted-crayon sheets into leaf shapes.
- Hang your leaves
You can tape or glue your leaves to the window. A little dab of gluestick works perfectly!
We love how they look with the sun shining through them! You’ve got to try this fun fall craft!
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