Although it was an old art form that began in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome, stained glass became popular towards the end of the Middle Ages in Europe.
Its luminescent qualities were ideal for representing sacred stories in grand cathedrals.
For our upcoming Medieval Feast, I helped my daughter create stained glass from tissue paper to decorate our Grand Hall (aka our living room where we were going to hold our feast).
My daughter helped me with the project. My goal was to keep the project as simply as possible.
After I suggested we use wildflowers from Colorado as our theme, she was excited.
She used her Colorado wildflower guidebook from our trip to pick the flowers: Columbine, Indian Paintbrush, and Black-eyed Susan.
While looking at pictures in her wildflower book, I made a rough general sketch of each flower onto black posterboard.
Carefully I drew the lines of the flowers radiating out since stained glass needs the metal part to attach to the frame.
I made the lines thick enough to look like metal, in comparison to the flower.
Together we cut out large openings with our scissors.
After cutting tissue paper to size, we used a glue stick to secure it to the back of the posterboard.
Our project was finished in one day
