1. Tiffany Stained Glass Hearts
Presentation modified and prepared by WM PTA Alice Finch 2012 –updated by NW PTA Sept. 2016
Kindergarten February Art Project
Northwood Elementary Art Enrichment Program

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3. Lesson Overview Time: 1 hour Medium: tissue paper stained glass
Volunteers: 4+
Project Overview/Skills
Students will use tissue paper to create stained glass flowers and plants in the style of Louis Comfort Tiffany

4. Tiffany Stained Glass Materials
Red construction paper 12”x18”- 1 sheet per child
Contact paper roll, cut into 12” sections- 2 per child
Tissue paper,
Some cut into ½ into squares
Collect squares into ziplock bags by color- shades of yellow together, green etc.
Some in larger bits for cutting round shapes
Heart punch
Punch x3 with red paper for each kid- this can be done in class from the corner of their red paper
Sharpie pens
Paint cups for holding tissue paper squares- 1 for each color family per table group
Blue tape to hold down contact paper to desk
Red heart template- hearts can be cut out by adults or by kids

5. Today’s Project
Make a stained glass Valentine in the style of a Tiffany lamp

6. Louis Comfort Tiffany He is most famous for his stained glass
He helped decorate the White House
He made new colors of glass instead of painted glass
Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements.
Tiffany started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as his father's money and connections, led this business to thrive.
In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm's most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm's interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. Tiffany worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall.[4][5][6]
A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios.
In the beginning of his career, Tiffany used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundred of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany's chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s.

7. What shapes of glass are used?

8. Step 1- Cut red heart Trace heart shape inside and outside
Cut out heart outline
Cut out heart inside
Cutting of contact paper and hearts should be done ahead of time
Prepping a corner so that they can easily and quickly peeled would also be helpful for quick application
Taping the contact paper down to the desk should also be done before the lesson as it takes quite a bit of time to do for a full class of students- plan on 30 minutes for 3 people to do this ahead of time
Likewise, at the end it also takes time to put on the other side of the contact paper. It is recommended to have the kids help clean up or go to the rug and read a book while volunteers are doing this.

9. Step 2- Contact paper Peel off backing
Tape down contact paper at the corners so it won’t curl, sticky side up
Place the red heart on the contact paper

10. Step 3- Choose colors What kind of plant do you want to create?
Green lily pads
Yellow daffodil
Blue/Purple wisteria
Yellow laburnum
Pink/red peony
Red tulip
Fruit tree

11. Step 4- Make shapes
Put many small squares together to make a larger shape
Cut shapes to make rounded shapes

12. Step 5- Fill in background
Choose a color not used in flowers or leaves for background
More than one shade of color ok

13. Step 6- Heart Punch
Add small hearts in gaps

14. Step 7- Happy Valentine’s Day
Write on red paper in Sharpie
Happy Valentine’s Day to…
Your name

15. Step 8- Contact paper #2 Place contact paper on top
Cut out heart shape