• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

PreKinders

Ideas for Pre-K & Preschool Teachers

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms of Use
  • Help
    • Printing Help
  • Shop
  • Learning Areas
    • Literacy
    • Math
    • Science
    • Art
    • Music
    • Fine Motor
    • Christian Activities
  • Themes
  • Teaching Ideas
    • Centers
    • Teaching Tips
    • Assessment
    • Back to School
    • End of Year
  • Printables
    • Literacy Printables
    • Math Printables
    • Science Printables
    • Music Printables
    • Visual Discrimination Printables
    • Classroom Management Printables

Leaf Stained Glass Art

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Art Ideas, Forest Theme

Stained glass art is a traditional art activity that you can do with many different holidays and themes. This leaf stained glass art activity will add some Fall colors to your classroom windows.

Leaf Stained Glass Art

Traditionally, teachers have to trace and cut the leaf outline for this type of art, and you may wish to do it that way. I used my Cricut machine and let it do the cutting for me. Good-bye tracing and cutting! If you don’t have a Cricut, keep reading because you can still do this activity without one.

The materials I used for this activity were 12×12 black card stock paper, art tissue paper in Fall colors, and clear Contact paper. I used 12×12 paper so they would be larger, but you could use construction paper in the regular 12×18 size.

To prepare this activity, I placed black card stock paper on the Cricut mat and inserted it into the machine. The leaf pattern is from Cricut Design Space. If you are tracing and cutting, you can find lots of leaf shapes through Google images.

Leaf Stained Glass Art - cut with Cricut Machine

Leaf Stained Glass Art with Cricut Machine

A leaf shape was cut for each child.

Leaf cutout for stained glass art

To do this activity, we placed the leaf cutouts on the sticky side of the clear Contact paper. This was placed on the table sticky side up (you can tape down the corners, if needed).

Leaf Stained Glass Art

The kids added the Fall colored tissue paper onto the sticky Contact paper.

Leaf Stained Glass Art

When the kids were done, another sheet of clear Contact paper was placed on top of that to seal it. Then, the kids can cut off the excess Contact paper around the edges of the leaf.

Leaf Stained Glass Art

Now, you have a beautiful stained glass leaf to place in your window!

Leaf Stained Glass Art

You could do this art activity with all kinds of shapes: pumpkins, ornaments, Christmas trees, snowmen, hearts, shamrocks, Easter eggs, you name it!

If you are interested in a Cricut machine for the classroom, check out the Cricut for the Classroom Facebook Group for lots of classroom ideas.

Disclosure: I received a Cricut Explore One and supplies. All opinions are my own.

Get FREE updates!
Join here to get weekly emails with free printables and activities for Pre-K!
We collect, use, and process your data according to our Privacy Policy.
Don't worry - we never sell or share email addresses!

Tagged With: Fall Activities for Pre-K

About Karen Cox

Karen is the founder of PreKinders.com. She also works as a full-time Pre-K teacher in Georgia. Read more...

Primary Sidebar

Visit My Shop! 

Welcome!

Glad you're here! You'll find hands-on learning activities, themes, and printables for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten kids. I'm Karen Cox, a Pre-K teacher in Georgia. I have taught 4-5 year olds for 20+ years! Read More…

Before Footer

WE BELIEVE IN HANDS-ON, ACTIVE, & PLAYFUL LEARNING TO INSPIRE YOUNG MINDS

Serving Pre-K teachers, parents, & kids worldwide since 2000

Get Our Free Weekly Newsletter

  • Contact
  • Free Updates
  • Terms of Use
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 · PreKinders.com

Get FREE weekly updates!
Join here to get weekly emails with free printables and activities for Pre-K!
We collect, use, and process your data according to our Privacy Policy.
Don't worry - we never sell or share email addresses!
Get FREE updates!
Join here to get weekly emails with free printables and activities for Pre-K!
We collect, use, and process your data according to our Privacy Policy.
Don't worry - we never sell or share email addresses!