I love stained glass type projects. They are so pretty hanging in a window on a fall day (or winter! or spring! or summer!). On the back of one shelf I found two rolls of contact paper - and I still have a ton of tissue paper mentioned in my apple post, so, seemed like I should come be able to come up with something.
As I sat and thought, and played with tissue paper and contact paper (wow - tissue paper really sticks to contact paper!) my mind would wander to all that I am thankful for in my life and I would watch my hands work. Something made me put two and two together and I thought, why not make stained glass hands? The whole family could participate and make a hand for each member that can hang in their window! I envision each member making their own hand and then writing on it (a thick Sharpie works well) something they are thankful for, or simply decorating it.
I have some examples here of finished hands, but do you notice anything different?! Yes! A turkey! A child saw me working out the kinks on this project and of course wondered what I was doing. When I mentioned I was going to be tracing my hand and then cutting it out, he said "Oh, to make a turkey?!" I chuckled a bit and said, "You know what? That's exactly what I should do!"
I set out to make a turkey after that brief conversation, and really, he turned out pretty cool. I think I'll be sure to have out materials to make these stained glass hands into anything the children can come up with!
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