Make a 'stained-glass' decorations for your window inspired by the stain glass artist Christopher Whall.
Find out more about all the animals and create a roaring tiger that you can contribute to The Great Big Art Exhibition. Artist Anthony Gormley is inviting everyone to make art on the theme of 'Animals' to display in their windows.
The craft activity is suitable for children aged around 2 years upwards. This session will be delivered virtually via Zoom and will last for 35 minutes.
Sessions are offered free to Waltham Forest families but please consider a suggested donation of £5 per family, this will help sustain our programmes.
There are two sessions, morning and repeated in the afternoon. Booking is essential. 11 til 11.45 am, or, 1 til 1.45 pm
Zoom joining instructions, online safeguarding advice and a list of materials will be emailed to participants after registering. All materials used can easily be accessed at home. The materials list is below.
Creative Kids online events are brought to you by the William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest in partnership with Scribble and Smudge.
Material list for stain glass picture of a Tiger
You can make a no mess stain glass effect picture to fit within your window pane at home. We would like you to take part in this months activity
You will need:
Black/dark paper- x 2or, 3 any size that’s a4 and larger. x1 or 2 sheets for ripping and x1 sheet to be made into a picture frame. The frame can be any size but, should not be larger than your window pane. Black paper makes the outline of shapes needed for this project. If you’re expecting to make more than one stain glass picture then you’ll need more than 3 sheets.
Baking paper- a size that will fit onto the frame you have made above. Plus extra to colour or collage onto. NOTE: Preferably WHITE baking paper. I have found out some shops sell brown baking paper, which is not so transluscent.
Pritt stick
Sellotape/masking tape
Scissors
Coloured tissue papers. colours for the Tiger fur and eyes. Orange/brown/yellow/blue/green. An alternative to tissue paper is stated below.
Alternative to cutting and sticking with tissue paper use wax crayon- an assortment, including orange/brown/blue/yellow.
We will work on a table. It’s difficult to visualise on translucent baking paper, please have a light or dark paper/table covering to place underneath.
Additional tools or materials, that are not essential but could help:
Hole puncher (of any shape),
Make silhouette shapes of animals/insects/foliage in the black paper in advance.
Use coloured sellophane.
Felt tips (in vivd colours that work best on baking paper)
An assortment of tissue paper colours can be used to extend ideas for your stain glass picture. Cut some into squares, circles, leaf shapes.
Your resources may well be are running low, I’m hoping you’ll find what you need for this project locally from a local newsagent, or supermarket. Here are some online shops that sell under 5’s resources. There are many more available but I thought I’d make life a little easier:
https://www.cassart.co.uk/kids has all items including:
Woodies/ crayons
Black paper and tissue paper:
https://www.cassart.co.uk/_all?searchterm=black%20paper
https://www.cassart.co.uk/_all?searchterm=tissue+paper
Lots of items here:
