Child's Lamp Shade: Draw Images on White Paper

Video Transcript

"The first thing we want to do is make some shapes that are going to go around the lampshade. This part of the project can either be done by freehand drawing or you can just take some shapes that are printed out from a computer, or you can take some hard images and you can just trace around them like pieces of a puzzle can give you a nice shape sometimes. But we go ahead and make different images. Now it is important to not make the images too big, we don't want them to take up any large areas of the lampshade. One of the nice features about doing the lampshade is that it's made up of a lot of different small images that go all around the lampshade. So we don't want any one image taking up too much space when they become traced onto the plastic sheet which is going to be the lampshade itself. Now it really doesn't matter where you put the images on the paper, because the paper can be moved around and when it's traced onto the sheet of plastic, it could just be moved around, it's not going to be exactly as it looks on the page. So we make different shapes, here I'm using a theme of like kind of a beach, water theme, I have some fish, starfish, and different things that you usually find around the ocean and around the beach. Also be sure that you draw some images that can be colored nicely, easily colored, and you also can use a lot of different colors when you decorate them, because that's what's going to make also the project stand out, that the images are going to have some nice, lively, bright colors. For the sheet of plastic that we're going to be putting these images on, we'll probably need about ten or twelve images. Now you can use the same image over again because it's being traced. But we're going to be using a sheet of plastic about twenty four inches in length, rolled around, so for that you'll need about ten different images, ten to twelve images to go around. So I've shown you now how to make some images on a piece of paper and get them ready to be transferred onto the sheet of plastic."