Stain Glass Vase

Stain Glass Vase-

This 2nd grade project was used to make Mother's Day presents for every students mother. We began the class by learning about stain glass. Students started listing places that we have seen stained glass and some of the answer were churches and other important buildings. Then we referred to the PowerPoint and saw some basic examples of stain glass and learned the new vocabulary for the day. We learned that red, orange, and yellow are warm colors and blue, purple, and green are cool colors. The teacher then distributed the materials for the lesson including a small jar that will be used as a vase and different colors of tissue paper.Paper plates with mod podge which is simply glue were given to each table so we could create our stain glass vases. We began by painting the bottom the jars with mod podge and stuck pieces of tissue paper on it. This gives the jar a translucent look that resembles stain glass. After every student had three to four layers of tissue paper and pod podge on their bottles and like
d the look they were finished. If the bottles were dried we were required to sign our names on the bottom. Next, thing we did was add flowers to our vases. The teacher gave us freedom on making our flowers any way we wanted to. I decided to create a origami flower with white paper so it looks like a white tulip. The teacher gave each student straws that we could use for stems.

This is a second grade lesson however if I were to teach this lesson in a high school setting I would have the students create actual stain glass compositions or work with translucent materials to create a stain glass inspired sculpture. The concepts of warm and cool colors will be implied but due to the grade level that will be a very minor part of the project. The new material addressed would either be the technique of modern stain glass or having the students apply three or more principles and elements to their translucent sculptures.