How to Create a Wax Stained Glass Window
Organize an afternoon craft project for kids by using bits of wax that you accumulate from their broken crayons. You can help your children create beautiful stained glass window designs in your own home with very little work.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Crayons
- Cookie sheet
- Iron
- Wax paper
- Grater or pencil sharpener
- Aluminum foil
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Have your children help collect broken crayon pieces.
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Ask children to peel all of the paper off of the crayons and throw the paper away.
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Use a grater or a pencil sharpener to shred the crayons into tiny pieces of colorful wax.
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Let your children crate a fun design on the wax paper, which should be placed on top of the cookie sheet to contain any mess.
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Carefully fold the wax paper in half to cover the crayon shavings when you are done, or lay a second piece of wax paper on top of the artwork.
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Cover the wax paper with aluminum foil and heat the wax with an iron until the crayon wax is all melted.
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Let your children cut the "window" to shape once it has cooled and dried.
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Tips & Warnings
Wax messes can be easily scraped off of most hard surfaces with a credit card.
Do not let the children touch the stained glass until it is very cool.
