Frankenstein Contact Paper Sticky Wall

It's been a while since we've made contact paper sticky wall art. Since I've had Halloween on the brain, I came up with this idea to use different materials to create a Frankenstein. My daughter had so much fun and ended up with a unique looking, spooky creature.  

Contact Paper Sticky Wall Fall Tree

We have grown very fond of Contact Paper Sticky Wall Activities this past year. We recently created a beautiful Fall Tree out of a Contact Paper Sticky Wall. Not only did my daughter love the activity, but it turned out to be a lovely work of art on the wall!

Sticky Wall Ocean Craft

Head over to Brassy Apple today where I'm sharing this fun summertime craft...An ocean scene made out of a contact paper sticky wall.

Robin Eggs Math Game with Contact Paper

I mentioned yesterday that we used our Robin Craft in a Math Game and I'm excited to share it with you. My 3 year old had a blast with it!

Contact Paper Sticky Wall Butterfly Craft

We had some Winter weather today which forced us to play inside this afternoon. I came up with this Contact Paper Sticky Wall Butterfly Craft to help entertain my daughter and it turned out to be a beautiful work of art as well!  

Sticky Heart Collage Art for Kids

This Sticky Heart Collage Art Activity was not only a hit with my daughter but turned out to be a great indoors activity for a cold winter day! 

Stained Glass Witch

"Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson is one of my favorite Halloween books. We read it last week several times and made a fun Stained Glass Witch to go along with the book. This is the same exact pattern that we used last year in our Witch Craft, but we decided to switch it up and turned it into a Stained Glass Witch this go around.

You can find the pattern for the head HERE and the hat HERE. I traced the patterns on black and green cardstock paper, cut them out and then used a craft knife to cut the inside of the pattern out as pictured below.

Then I cut out a piece of clear contact paper, peeled it back and put the patterns on the sticky contact paper. My daughter then had fun filling the inside of the witch head and hat with green and black tissue paper squares.

I put another sheet of contact paper (sticky side down) onto the witch head and hat to seal them together and then cut off the excess contact paper. Next we put the facial features on the witch. Here's a picture tutorial of how I made the nose.

We glued large wiggly eyes and the nose onto the witch and then I arranged the hair how I wanted it on her head. You can glue each individual strand down if you want or you can be lazy like me and just put a piece of tape across her forehead. Ha! The hat covers it up anyways. (Just a little hint: I made my orange paper strips for the hair by putting an orange piece of paper through one of those old school shredders. I had a neighbor that had one of those shredders so it made it really easy and cut so much prep time out of this craft.)

Once you have her eyes, nose and hair on you are ready to tape or glue the black hat on her head.

For the mouth, you can either use red glitter glue...

Or you could use a strip of red paper.

  It's been so fun having the witch hanging up in our window. Such a fun Halloween decoration! To see how we made our witch craft last year, click HERE.

Stained Glass Easter Eggs

I saw the idea to make snowflake eggs in the Family Fun Magazine this month. After we made the eggs we decided to take them a step further and give them a stained glass effect.

To cut the shapes in the eggs, you use a similar techinque as you do in making paper snowflakes.

When you cut the shapes in the folds of your paper you have to make sure to not cut on the round edge. I tried to make a little illustration to show you what I mean.

Then unfold your egg to see your fun design. Ours did not turn out NEAR as cool as the ones in the magazine (I have no idea how they got theirs so lacy looking), but they are still cool.

Next put your egg on top of a piece of contact paper, leaving the sticky side up. You can see in the picture below we had an opps and accidentally cut a piece out of the rounded edge. No biggy but it doesn't have the nice finished edge all the way around. (I actually didn't even notice this until after we were all done making them.)

Cover all the holes in the egg with tissue paper squares. The contact paper makes them stick to the egg. We used spring colors to go along with the Easter theme.

Once all the holes are covered, place another sheet of contact paper over your egg, sticky side down, to seal your egg shut.

Lastly, cut around the edge of the egg to cut off the excess contact paper. Turn your egg over and you have a fun work of art! Here is my toddler's egg. I like how her colors mixed together in the holes.

They look cool just as is but hang them in the window to get the real stained glass effect.