Stained Glass Sculpture

I am especially fond of projects that involve contact paper and tissue paper because both materials are inexpensive and a little goes a long way.  We have made a lot of "stained glass" or "suncatcher" type crafts using contact paper and tissue paper.  I saw this idea on Valerie's Frugal Family Fun Blog a while ago, and we finally got to make our own bendable stained glass sculpture.  We did this right before bed one night which is why we did it on the bedroom carpet.  I recommend sitting at a table because feet, legs, and pajamas were constantly getting stuck to our contact paper!

I cut one large rectangular piece of contact paper for each child.  Then, I used florist wire from the craft store to make an oval and placed it on the sticky side of the contact paper leaving about a two inch border outside the wire.  You don't have to use florist wire; any thin gauge wire will do, but the florist wire was super cheap.

I then gave C and R some tissue paper and they ripped it into tiny pieces and filled the space inside the wire oval. 

Once they filled the space with tissue paper, I cut slits every few inches all the way around the edge and C folded the sticky contact paper up to cover the wire.

C and R then shaped their sculptures, we turned off the lights, and placed flashlights behind them.  C's sculpture has more red and blue, and R's has a lot of pink.  They were both very impressed with the final results.