Ancient Europe and Stained Glass Window Art

For our art lesson today, we made stained glass window art. To begin this lesson we discussed a powerpoint about the history of the stained glass. During the powerpoint we wrote down three points that we learned on an index card. For this lesson we had to use a color scheme, such as warm colors, cool colors, and complimentary colors. To construct the stained glass art, first we picked out a holiday design. Next, we used an exacto knife in order to trace the design on construction paper. The exacto knife cut out pieces of the design. Once we had all our pieces cut out, we glued tissue paper and placed it in the open holes of our design. The tissue paper used created the color schemes we needed to have. After we had the tissue paper all glued into place, we cut our design out.

Here is my holiday stained glass window art:
I used warm and cool colors for my color schemes.

An extension activity for this lesson is the have students make the stained glass window art for the different seasons of the year. The Christmas holiday scene would be for Winter, a pumpkin or turkey would be for Fall, a bunny for Spring, and a flag or fireworks for Summer. The different items would represent what season it is, and what holiday happens during each season.