I love sun catchers. There is something lovely about the light streaming through and showing off all those beautiful colours. We have made this type of cellophane sun catcher before in butterfly and bird designs but this time we tried making owl suncatchers.
Isn’t it so pretty? To make this craft, we used a kit from Baker Ross which meant that we had all the supplies easily on hand but if you aren’t able to track down these kits, you can replicate a similar idea. I love the kits though, since they are so convenient!
Here are the Baker Ross stained glass owl kits if you want to check them out. They are great value!
How to make your stained glass owl sun catcher
You will need:
- Owl templates made from black card – you need 2 identical templates for each owl.
- Pieces of cellophane in multiple colours
- Scissors
- Glue
- Ribbon to hang
Take one of your owl templates, and place the pieces of cellophane over each hole. We cut them up quite small so that different colours could shine through on many of the spots on our owls body. If it’s easier for younger children, you can use larger colour blocks, or even overlap the colours and allow a mish mash effect like we did with the butterflies.
To make this craft more easily, we didn’t stick each peice of cellophane down individually, but just carefully placed them and covered the second owl template with glue all over one side, pressed that down on top of the first owl and the cellophane, and it was all sealed in very easily.
Here’s our finished owl. It’s not lined up perfectly, but once it’s hanging up with the sun shining through you don’t notice.
We now have the owl sun catcher hanging in the kitchen window. It makes a fun Autumn decoration to brighten up the home!
You might also like:
- Butterfly and bird stained glass sun catchers
- Spring activities for kids (with butterfly suncatcher puppets, and window displays)
- Autumn Crafts and activities
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This looks really cute. I always forget about getting cellophane for art projects. Now I am going to have to get some. This will go great for us with our owl unit. Pinning this for later.
How adorable! I don’t have a kit but local college has Ellison Machine we could use to cut out shapes. Thanks for sharing this cute owl.
I absolutely love this!! Pinned and shared, and hopefully we’ll create some of our own soon 🙂 Thanks for sharing via Mommy Monday.
XOXOXO
this is adorable
This is so sweet. I love owls so would love to make this with the children.
Brilliant idea – love Baker Ross products. My last class were called the Owl class – this would have been a perfect activity for them!
These are adorable!! I’m in love with owl crafts 🙂
Thanks for sharing, I have Pinned this as a great Halloween idea!
So cute! Thanks for the ideas. Owls are great for fall!
Love baker ross craft! They are always so handy! #pintorials
Thank you so much for linking this post up to The Sunday Showcase! This is an adorable craft!
Wow, that’s fantastic looking. I’m sure your kids were so proud of how it turned out. Thank you for stopping by the Merry Monday link party and I hope you can make it again next week.
I can remember making something similar when I was a child #playtime
aww, this is lovely! Thanks for linking up with the #parentingpinitparty
They look really pretty and so easy to make.