I'm quickly running through my stash of fun and easy kids activities for church! I'm going to have start branching out and creating new things.. but for now, I've still got a few tricks!
Anyway, last week I had the kids look at the stained glass windows in the sanctuary and talk about them. We looked a little at the colors, the symbols and all of that.
Then I gave them each a transparency that I had printed a line design onto. The internet is a great resource for "coloring book" stained glass designs! I wanted the patterns to be interesting, but not too hard as I have from 4 years old to 14 year olds!
(Side note..it is super easy to print onto a transparency! Just change the setting on your printer to transparency and put it through the side feeder of the printer.)
The kids colored the transparencies with oil pastels. I use oil pastels because I have them. You might could use crayon.. I'm not sure.
Purple was the hardest color to get to go on smoothly.. for whatever reason. What is pretty cool is that if the kids color a section and they don't like it, they can just color over that section with a new color.
After they finished coloring, I took a blank transparency and sandwiched the pastel between the two transparencies. I then used masking tape to secure the two pieces together.
And that was it! The kids LOVED them. I was thinking we would make them to hang at the church.. but they all took them home! We will make some to hang at the church another time!
And that's it. Another super fun and easy craft project for kids!
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