Watching colorful light rays filter through the stained glass brings magic as it reveals a narrative while creating scenes that activate the entire surrounding environment. Through our recent Summer Camp Series “Art Around the World” session about Spain, we learned about Spanish art creativity, and yet stained glass painting represents the best way to capture this artistic expression.
Stained glass painting serves as an entertaining artistic process that enables children to employ intense glass paints on translucent sheets (plastic or acrylic) to reproduce stained glass effects. In place of hazardous glass and lead materials, children work with safe products that let them produce stained glass effects through their creation of bold sketches and bright colors.
This activity suits children between 8 and 15 due to their ongoing developmental stage in design abilities and their growing appreciation for artwork that displays both creativity and storytelling. Young people create such spectacular art pieces from this activity that it appears as though they achieved expert status.
The students had a wonderful educational experience that opened their eyes when we taught them Spanish culture through stained glass painting. Standing as an art teacher affords me the greatest professional joy when my students develop an emotional bond with a distant place through basic pictorial elements and creative thinking.
The ongoing Art Around the World series operates as our educational journey, which enables children to discover different countries by exploring art as their primary navigation instrument.
Next stop? Children will have to wait for the upcoming destination, but students can anticipate the same vibrant and enchanting experience.