Tissue Paper Stained Glass Hearts

 The girls helped me to tear pink and red tissue paper sheets into pieces of rough sizes and shapes. Great for fine motor control and co-ordination and surprisingly difficult for small hands to do!

 Then I took some contact paper (sticky back plastic) and folded it in half so that I had exactly enough to cover over the top when we were finished.

 I unpeeled the bottom half and secured it onto a table top (sticky side up) using pieces of sticky tape at the edges. This was by far the most difficult part and I nearly crumpled it all up a couple of times- always the same story with me and contact paper!

 Then the girls simply laid down the pieces of tissue paper on top and smoothed them down so that they stuck flat.  I also found some other pretty, textured papers which they added in. I think glitter and sequins could also look gorgeous!

 They managed to cover the entire piece of contact paper between them and then came the sealing down! I folded over the other half of the contact paper, unpeeling it as I did so and they smoothed it down to make it seal and stick.

 We had a few creases but it didn’t seem to make any difference to the finished product later, thankfully!

 I cut out some different sized hearts and we stuck them on the window using blu-tac. Cakie was very keen to stick them up herself and decide how they should be in relation to each other. She made some lovely decisions!

This would also look beautiful with differently coloured stars, flowers, or abstract art shapes. We will no doubt come back to this lovely, easy art activity many times in the near future!

Learning Links:

creativity: explore colour, shape and form in two and three dimensions, experiment with using and combining a range of media, talk about colours and shapes in own art work and that of others


physical development: fine motor control and co-ordination through tearing and sticking paper


Cakie: 3 years 5 months
Pop: 22 months