You can make this really cool looking stained glass window craft out of cardboard and metallic foil paper. How easy is that? I used them, along with tissue paper torches, to decorate for my son’s medieval themed first birthday party. They are a great decoration for any sort of medieval themed party, VBS, or get together.
How to Make a Stained Glass Window Craft
Materials:
Creating:
To start, you need some cardboard rectangles. I cut the flaps off of my most recent packages to get even width pieces. Then, I drew a window shape on the first piece and cut it out. After I had my outer shape, I drew squares in it at even intervals. Lastly, I drew an even width border around the whole window.
Next, I took an X-ACTO knife and cut out all the squares that were not in my outer border. Make sure you are using a sharp new blade, or it will be really hard to cut through the cardboard. I just used a spare piece of cardboard to cut on, but a self healing mat would work even better. Once I had the first window cut out, I used it as the pattern to trace the design onto the remaining pieces of cardboard.
Then, I used black paint to make my windows look less like cardboard.
Now it was time to make the actual stained glass effect. Using several different colors of metallic foil paper, I cut out shapes that were slightly larger than the holes in my cardboard. Then, I taped each piece to the back of the windows. I made sure that no two pieces of the same color touched. Finally, I used sticky tack to stick my finished stained glass window craft to the wall.
Conclusion of Stained Glass Window Craft
I love the burst of color that these stained glass windows added to my medieval decorations. They were easy to make and the metallic foil paper was the only thing I didn’t already have on hand which was super nice. My husband thought they made our kitchen look like a medieval cathedral instead of a castle, what do you think?
How about the chapel in the castle? 😁