• Cardboard templates (oval or rectangular) not more than 6-8" tall
• Clear acetate 8" x 10" sheets
• Newsprint or white bond (8" x 10")
• Precut ovals and rectangles to act as a frame with hole punched
• White glue
• Permanent markers
• Brushes
• Createx Transparent colors (or Pebeo Liquid Crystal )

Directions:

1. Take the template shape you want your valentine to be and trace around it on the clear acetate. Cut it out.


2. Trace the template onto a piece of newsprint or sketch paper. In that shape, draw your idea for a valentine design. Then place your acetate on top of the sketch and trace your design using a permanent marker. (To make it look like real stained glass, draw some lines that cut all the negative spaces into smaller shapes.)


3. Once you have the lines drawn, paint the valentine ONLY ON ONE SIDE with the Createx Transparent colors. Wait till the paint is dry to glue it into the frame.


4. Make sure to apply the glue to the frame and not your picture. Sandwich your valentine between 2 frames. Hang it with string or yarn in a window that gets plenty of sunlight for the best stained glass results.

Art Terms:
Template - a draftsman's pattern or guide for drawing certain standard shapes and symbols. (It is essentially a flat sheet, usually made of heavy clear plastic in which holes of the shape or shapes desired have been cut in different sizes.)

Resources:
Mayer, Ralph. The Harper Collins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques. Harper Collins Publishers, New York. 1991.

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