Stained Glass Nativity Suncatcher

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If you’re looking for a colorful and beautiful Christmas craft to do with your kids this year, look no further than these Stained Glass Nativity Suncatchers!

This craft does require a little more prep work from the parents if the children doing this craft are younger. However, they make stunning window holiday decorations and are a great way to start a conversation with your kids about the birth of Jesus and the real reason we celebrate Christmas, so in my opinion, it’s well worth it!

I did this craft with my 4 year old and she loved it! I simply used some spare time I had while my kids were napping to prep the supplies for this craft and it was honestly pretty relaxing. Once I had the materials prepped, making the craft with my daughter was a breeze.

If you’re looking for more “Nativity” themed crafts, snacks, activities, and a corresponding simple Bible lesson to do with your kids, check out this week’s Weekly Fun Plan: Away in a Manger. New Weekly Fun Plans drop each Monday so stay up to date with the blog each week by subscribing to my email list!

Supplies:

• White Printer Paper
• Nativity Cutout PDF
• Scissors
• Colorful Tissue Paper
• Contact Paper

Steps:

• First, let’s start with the prep work you may want to do for your child if they are younger. Start by printing off my FREE Nativity Cutout PDF.
• Next is the tedious part of the craft. Take some scissors and carefully cut out the entire nativity image leaving only the black printed area. See the image below for reference.

• Measure out a square of contact paper big enough to cover the entire nativity shape and cut out 2 of those squares.
• For the last of the prep work, cut up a bunch of 1” squares of tissue paper in various colors.
• When your child is ready to do the craft, carefully peel off the paper back of one of your contact paper squares, place it on a table sticky side up, then carefully lay your nativity cutout onto the contact paper black/ink side down.
• Next, have your child place different colored pieces of tissue paper all over the contact paper, being sure to cover all the open spaces in the nativity picture.

• Once filled in with tissue paper, peel off the back of your second piece of contact paper and carefully place it on top of your artwork sealing in your tissue paper. This will create a laminated effect.
• To finish up, simply take some scissors and cut off the excess contact paper around the edge of your nativity image. Now you’re ready to tape it up on a window and let the light shine through!

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