If, like me, you have interior doors with glass panels, and also small children, then you'll know that they get a lot of finger-prints all over them. One way to make sure that you don't notice the finger-prints is to decorate the panels - because you're so busy looking at the decoration! Plus it just looks gorgeous. You can use these to decorate any window really.
Contact Paper Window Decorations
I've made these before using squares of coloured tissue paper as the decorative item, and they look very effective - almost a stained glass effect. I've also had the idea of using those metallic table decoration confetti type shapes - which you can get in star shapes, amongst others. On this occasion we used pressed flowers, which looks lovely.
What you need: Contact paper (sticky backed plastic) - you can buy this from any stationers, most Post Offices and larger supermarkets; pressed flowers;
- Cut out a square or rectangle of contact paper that's smaller than your window. Peel off the backing and lay it sticky-side up in front of your youngster.
- Give them a variety of leaves and pressed flowers (or other decorative items) and get them to choose a few to use. Don't let them use too many, because if they cover up all the contact paper then it won't have any stickiness left to stick to the window.
- Encourage them to arrange them on the contact paper. They need to be very gentle with the pressed flowers, and they won't be able to pull them off and rearrange them without damage.
- Stick them to your window and admire. The pressed flowers look particularly lovely with some sunshine coming through, but also with a light behind them too or against a white background (our wall paper is a light faun colour).
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