"Stained Glass"

Ever since we took down the Christmas decorations I have been wanting to do something with the kids for the front windows. I remembered a craft I did in preschool that would be perfect. You can see my original artwork on the window in the background of this adorable pic of Jacob and me circa 1986.



I remembered there was wax paper and colored tissue paper involved. Seemed like a no brainer. We used school glue on a plate with little paint brushes. The twins do much better with glue if we do it that way.



Marvel and Jet got right to it. Jet was already covered in paint from an earlier project.



After watching them for a minute Fox had it figured out.



Cash was annoyed at first that the "paint" wasn't showing up. Then he started dipping the tissue right into the glue then sticking it to the paper. It worked really well!



Marvel had a whole story to go with her picture (it was a sheep shearing machine and a sheep).



I stuck them up on the windows (high where the toddlers wouldn't rip them down) with blue painters/masking tape.

Marvel's:


Jet's:


Fox's:


Cassius's:


They look so pretty in the morning when the sun is comming in there.



They gave this craft 8 thumbs up!

So We Have These Windows...

So we have these windows in our dining room. They face directly into our neighbor's house. Also, the bus stops behind our house so all the kids cut between there to get home after school. We really do want some kind of window covering there. Blinds are a nightmare with kids. Curtains in the room where the kids eat would probably have to be washed daily. So I saw this window film on Amazon and decided it was worth a try. I really liked the colors and they kind of go with the dining room.

So we got it yesterday and I liked the colors even more in person.

It went on really easily. It's just contact paper - which I use all the time to "laminate" stuff.

It looks even better on the windows than I expected.

The seams barely show - and not because I did such a super wonderful job. ;-)

I think it looks great. I'll have to stay up past the twins bedtime some night this week to touch up the edges with a utility knife.

Maybe someday I will get fancy custom stained glass windows for this room. For now I'm really happy with something pretty that gives us a little privacy and is easy to wipe ketchup off of.