Here’s an idea for a craft project to do with the kids– or adults!  Dover makes the best coloring books ever, and they have a line of stained glass coloring books.  They’re printed on a vellum-like paper, black with clear spaces to color.  You can color them with practically any medium, from crayons to pencils to oil paint, and they look great when held up the light of a window.  (Even coloring outside the lines doesn’t make them look bad– outside the lines is black!)

I already have a few of them, including one on the Nativity.  You can get “Life of Jesus” and “Miracles of Jesus” books, too.  I just ordered the “Cathedral Stained Glass” and the “Stained Glass” books, which are specifically reproductions of church and cathedral glass, such as Chartres, Augsburg, etc.  The glass is identified by caption.

Another book I purchased is “Ready-to-Use Dollhouse Stained Glass Windows for Hand Coloring” by Ed Sibbett.  I don’t create dollhouses, and I realize that these are all bound to be purely decorative images, probably all Victorian and modern, but I think they just might come in handy for making “windows” in cards or what have you.  They’re on the 1:12 miniature scale.

Man, this kids’ stained glass house project looks cool.  This would make a really neat Sunday School project.

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