Stained Glass Flowers

My husband has family visiting right now from Holland, and Monkey has become very best friends with one of his second cousins. Yesterday while we were out he picked a dandelion to give to his "favourite girl" (he can't always remember her name!) but it was already dead by this morning. I suggested that we could paint a flower for her instead and that way she could take it back home with her. Monkey agreed that it was a good idea. 

Supplies: wax paper, paint, paint brushes, construction paper 

I saw the idea here: http://happyhooligans.ca/stained-glass-painting-2/ ...but we tried to do the same effect and it didn't work, so we just painted the wax paper and left it. It still turned out beautiful! 

I taped some wax paper to our table and got the paint and brushes ready for Monkey. 

Monkey jumped right in and started painting his paper. 

He did the first paper any way he wanted to. On the second paper, we did a whole bunch of dots all over the paper. 

Once he was happy with the paintings, we left them to dry. 

A few hours later when the paint was dry, I used a flower template to cut out some flowers out of the wax paper and some frames out of the construction paper. 

Then I glued them onto the frames and we put them up in the window. 

We gave two of the flowers to our relatives from Holland and kept one in our window. They look so bright, colorful, and cheery!!

Mar