Rainbow Suncatcher
Happy June! And Happy Pride Month! This month we celebrate inclusion, acceptance, and show acclamation for the Stonewall riots in 1969 which was the start of the gay rights movement in America. As parents we, of course, are raising our children to understand you treat everyone nicely and don’t hurt anyone’s feelings based on the way they look, laugh or who they love. In this crazy world it’s not always easy so an entire month dedicated to the colors of the rainbow is a beautiful thing to see!
Today is off and on rain so we spent this morning creating some suncatchers in hopes we can get the sun to stick around throughout the weekend 🙂 Another day another contact paper craft, I’m telling you if you don’t have any of this you totally need to purchase some. You could probably also make these with mod podge but I figured for a 1 and 3 year old contact paper would probably work best.
First things first, you will need some tissue paper cut up into pieces that you’ll use to stick to the contact paper. We had a whole bunch of different colors except my sons favorite color which is black, although I’m pretty sure they don’t make black tissue paper, so instead we used streamers. They both have beginner scissors so they “helped” to do that part with me. I also decided to cut out a black outline of a heart too so you’ll want some construction paper for that if you want to make a border.
Once you have all the tissue paper cut up, put it aside. Next, grab your contact paper and peel off the protector pieces so the sticky part it up. From there give your kids free range to place the tissue paper anywhere they’d like, that’s part of the fun! I drew the colors of the rainbow for them incase they wanted to follow along but in the end the task basically became cover any sticky part with any color. Once they were done I took a second piece of contact paper and attached the black outline of the heart to it and then stuck the entire thing to the tissue paper. My son was a little overzealous with the tissue paper so I grabbed a glue gun to help hold the whole thing together, but otherwise just leave a little bit of the sticky contact paper free so it will stick to itself which will leave you with one less supply that you’ll need to have handy.
Find a window and stick the catchers on! Now hope for a sunny day and watch the colors shin on in 🙂
