Easy preschool Christmas craft
I found this adorable stained glass nativity on Pinterest and I couldn’t wait to make it with my kids. This nativity project is perfect to make with your preschooler this Christmas, and will look great hanging in your window, or on your Christmas tree.
Stained Glass Nativity materials:
- Contact paper
- Nativity Silhouette – Free Nativity Printable
- Colorful tissue paper cut into squares
- Scissors
- Print and cut out your nativity
- Lay out your contact paper sticky side up.
- Center your nativity silhouette on top of the contact paper.
- Begin placing squares of tissue paper inside the nativity silhouette to create the look of stained glass.
- Once the nativity is filled with tissue paper, lay a second sheet of contact paper on top of the entire project. Be careful not to trap air bubbles.
- Trim the excess contact paper with scissors.
- You can either tape your stained glass nativity to your window or use a hole punch and hang it from a string. Either way, it will look great.
We also created mini stained glass nativity ornaments. We used the same process above. I just shrunk the nativity on my printer, and cut the squares of tissue paper smaller.
I think the kids actually enjoyed making the mini version better.
Both versions are adorable and a fun treasure to pull out each Christmas. They would also look great as gift tags, or on special Christmas cards.
If you are looking for more simple stained glass projects for kids, check out these adorable recycled stained glass ornaments we made a couple of weeks ago. Another simple and inexpensive Christmas craft to make with your kids. I love them! We also made this simple Tinfoil and Sharpie Art that looks just like stained glass.
This is great! Where did you find your silhouette?
Beautiful craft that would be loved for many years. Thanks for showing us how to make this. I have bookmarked this so that I can do this with my godson this year!
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Oh, how pretty!! I love it!! We will definitely be trying this. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
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Thank you!! I made these with my first and second graders and LOVED them! This will be my all time favorite Christmas craft!!
Love, love, love, this! Will definitely do this with my Sunday School Class this year.
Thank you so much for this wonderful Christmas craft for children. We plan to use it in our Primary class at church for kids 3 thru 12.
Where did you get your silhouette outline?
I really love this, it is so darling. I will be honest there is no way that I could cut out such a cut silhouette. Do you by any chance have a template for it that you can post for those of us that are challenged with scissors?
Thank you very much for that great idea. I have just made it with kids from Sunday school in Krakow… so far away from you in Poland. Greatings and have unique Advent time.
This looks gorgeous! Can’t wait to make one with my kid!
Love this idea. We blogged about it for our 12 Days of Christmas with the kids. Thanks for sharing!
Love it! Perfect for our Sunday School Craft.
Cute craft. 🙂