Tissue-Paper Stained Glass Windows

I've been experimenting with a new activity for families and kids inspired by twelfth-century arts and sciences. I teach an art appreciation class every day to middle schoolers and these are some of the results from our recent tissue-paper stained glass window project. They took inspiration from the real stained glass window images at Chartres Cathedral in France, which was built during the early gothic period in the late 12th century. After each student chose their window to imitate, they traced the image onto wax paper, and then traced the individual glass segments on colored tissue paper. After cutting these segments of color out and gluing them onto the wax paper like a jigsaw puzzle, we taped them onto the classroom window to let the light shine through. While safer than cutting real glass, the project is quite time consuming--taking several class periods to complete. It would not work at an outdoor event due to the tissue paper blowing around with the slightest breeze, it could work for a kids and family activity if participants were given the traced outlines and cut out segments ahead of time.