Stained Glass Cross

The first thing you do to make a stained glass cross is get a piece of wax paper and fold it in half. Find some old crayons and start sharpening them on half of the waxed paper until you have a little pile.

Fold the wax paper over the shavings and prepare to iron them. If you have a lot of shavings you may want to fold the edges of your wax paper over so the crayon doesn't leak out all over your ironing surface.

Next, take a piece of scrap paper to put down on the ironing board and put your crayon shavings on it with another piece of scrap on top. Heat evenly and check every few seconds!

Here is what our melted crayon looks like. Beware- it doesn't take long for it to melt. Our first one turned into yuck because I heated it too long.

Then, you fold a piece of construction paper in half and cut a shape through both halves. We chose a cross for Easter.

You need to make sure you cut out the melted crayon so that it is a size to fit inside your construction paper "card".

Lots of glue so it sticks real well. Josie's favorite part.

Last you fold up the paper to reveal the crayon through the cut-out cross.

Here it is!

This is the result. A beautiful cross that looks like stained glass. Josie is very proud can you tell. Georgia made one when she got home from school. She used shades of blue. It looks very nice in a color family.