After the devastating fire this week at the Notre Dame cathedral, I put some of my previously planned lessons on hold. We are making a bulletin board in tribute of the Notre Dame cathedral.
One of my classes is making some stunning and highly detailed pen drawings of parts of the cathedral and the gargoyles. Watercolor washes will be added to the background. I am super impressed with how these are coming along, but none are finished to show you yet. Two other grade levels are making different styles of faux stained glass pictures.
To begin, we talked a little about the fire at the cathedral. Most students had heard of this happening. We watched two different videos about the cathedral: Notre Dame de Paris and the History of Notre Dame’s Cathedral in Paris.
In this blog post I will share with you two different ways to make “stained glass windows” with your elementary students.
Here are some pictures of the windows in the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Tissue Paper Stained Glass
Tissue paper stained glass rose windows are being made by my 2nd graders now. The students are still working on these. When they are finished, I will post some more examples of their creations. I created a video to show you the steps!
Scratch Art Faux Stained Glass
My 3rd and 4th graders are working on Scratch Art Stained Glass Windows.
The left is one of my examples and uses Scratch Art transparent sheets. The one on the right was made by a talented 3rd grader and uses the Scratch Art Lite paper.
Here is the video about using the Scratch Art paper. This video will show you everything you need to know about how to make Scratch Art stained glass windows.
