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Thursday 9 May 2013

Vegetables Stained Glass Patterns

Do both your kids love the stained glass pattern items which you get from time to time to decorate your home? Well, stained glass patterns have been popular for quite some time now and they are a wonderful way of adding interest to the decoration of just about any room of your home. So, here is a bit of suggestion for you. With the help of your kids, you can start a stained glass pattern project to create decorative items for your home. As you already know, creating real stained glass items will involve cutting the glass pieces and grinding them. It is not safe for the kids and therefore, you should opt for the easier stained glass crafts.
If your kids love vegetables, then you can keep the vegetables as the central focus of your project and start off. 

Stained Glass Items With Paper
Get coffee filters and cut them into the shapes of your kids’ favorite vegetables. Once that is done, you can ask your kids to color the vegetables with wax crayons. Spray water on them to make them translucent; you will get the illusion of stained glass. If you do not have access to coffee filters at the moment, you can also make sure of normal white paper for the project. However, once you have cut out the shapes of the vegetables and your kids have colored then, instead of water use vegetable oil to spray on the cut-outs. In fact, translucent tissue paper will also work fine for the project. 

Stained Glass Items With Glass
You can get a few glass panels and decorate them within picture frames with pictures of vegetables in different ways. This will look like the real vegetable stained glass items. What you can do is paint a picture of a vegetable on the glass panel with the help of glass paints. In fact, you can let your imagination run wild and make use of tiles and glass pebbles to create shapes of vegetables and glue them on the glass panels. It will look simply amazing! Both the above mentioned options will let the light shine through beautifully and therefore, create a wonderful effect.

Stained Glass Items With Crayons
There are actually different ways of creating stained glass items and one of the most popular ways is placing pieces of wax crayons between two sheets of wax paper and then ironing over them. What you can do is draw the designs of some vegetables on pieces of wax papers and fill up the designs using colors from crayon shavings. This will enable you to get your pre-determined designs. If you want your kids to try things out a bit differently, you can help them to melt crayons into different vegetable patterns and see how the color blends beautifully.

Once the vegetable stained glass pattern items have been created, you can use them to decorate your home. Since the items have vegetable patterns, the kitchen is the idea place where you can display them.