Open-ended Art : Glitter

I have seen "contact paper" mentioned many art books but I could never find it anywhere in local stationery store. Yesterday, I chanced upon "self-adhesive plastic sheet" (Popular at Bukit Timah Plaza) for wrapping books and I thought it is probably close enough to "contact paper" so I bought 2 rolls. Today, I tried it out with Sophie (fingers crossed). I think it is quite useful for young children doing collage work since no glue is needed. However, I feel that it is better to have a frame to hold the plastic sheet in place.





I cut a frame from an ordinary brown cardboard and let Sophie scribble about. I tried to bundle a few crayons with a rubber band so that she could experience a new way of drawing. However, she was not very keen so I left it as that.






After I fix the plastic sheet onto the frame, I gave Sophie some of the leftover glitter dust from our previous open-ended art to "sprinkle" over the sticky side. She was very eager to work with glitter dust although I must admit I was pretty worried about the cleaning up. Then, I gave her black glitter dust and she would probably empty the whole bottle if I had let her.





Lastly, Sophie placed a golden ribbon in the picture and I quickly sealed the picture with another piece of self-adhesive plastic sheet. It turned out quite nice actually.





I like the fact that the end-product looks different when it is placed against a different background.

End Product

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