DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Stained Glass Shamrock Craft
Use this as a craft you can hang in your window or make
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Materials:
- waxed paper.
- wax crayons (Crayola don't work as well as the cheap kind
for this project, though they do still work)
- manual pencil sharpener (with a fairly large hole)
- iron, ironing board and scrap paper (white computer paper or
brown paper bag)
- construction paper,
- scissors,
- glue stick.
Instructions:
- ADULT: Plug in the iron and cover the ironing board
with scrap paper. Set the iron to medium (no steam).
- Tear a piece of waxed paper that's square (or a bit longer
than it is wide) and fold it in half. Then unfold.
- take the paper off some crayons and 'sharpen' them in the pencil
sharpener. Let the shavings drop onto 1/2 the waxed
paper.
- Feel free to use 3 or 4 different colors.
- when you have a nice pile of shavings refold the waxed paper.
- Fold about 1/2 inch around all the edges so none of the wax leaks
out when you iron.
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This is a photo of us doing a heart,
but the process is the same |
- place the waxed paper containing the shavings down on the ironing
board and cover with more scrap paper.
- Iron for about 10 seconds. Peek and iron a bit more if
necessary. All the wax should melt. The longer you iron,
the more your colors will mix.
- Let sit about 30 seconds to cool.
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- Take a piece of construction paper and fold in half.
- Crease well
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- Fold in half again, but this time, don't crease it very much (the
less you crease it the better, but young children may need it
creased quite well).
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- Cut out a half shamrock shape. You can do this freehand or draw
it on for small children to cut out.
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- Unfold the construction paper and you'll find a 'card' type shape
with a heart through the middle of it.
- Put your waxed paper ("stained glass") into the middle
and figure out where you're going to position it. With a pen
trace around a line for where you'll want to trim the waxed
paper. The pen won't make a pen mark, but it will leave a
white line on the paper.
- Cut out the waxed paper. Try not to fold it -- the wax will
crack if you do.
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This is a photo of us doing a heart,
but the process is the same |
- Open up the construction paper.
- Use a glue stick to trace around the heart shape on one side of
the construction paper.
- Glue the waxed paper down.
- Trace around the other heart (on the other side of the
construction paper) and around the edges of the construction paper
and fold down so the waxed paper is sandwiched.
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