Create a window scene

Finished window scene

Let your creativity run wild with this fun art project. Will you accurately recreate the view from your own window, imagine the view from Sonny's or something else entirely?

You will need:

  • A piece of card
  • Pencil
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Paper, tissue paper, fabric etc
  • Glue

1. Use the pencil and ruler to draw the outline of your window frame onto the cardboard. Decide how many panes you'd like to create and what shape they will be.

Cardboard window scene

2. Use scissors or a craft knife to carefully remove the window panes leaving just the frame.

3. Take some time to work out which materials you would like to use and how they will create the view from your window.

4. Cut and arrange the shapes of the landscape you will see through the window.

Example of a collaged landscape section

5. Take a strip of paper which is large enough to reach both edges of your frame and methodically glue down the elements of the scene.

Landscape section attached to the rear of the window frame

6. When you are happy with the composition, glue the strip of paper to the back of the frame so that the landscape shows through.

Tissue paper layers added to make the sky in the window scene

7. Continue to work in sections to create your landscape and sky, fixing them to the back of the frame when complete. We chose to use tissue paper for the sky so that light will show through it when placed against a real window!

8. Finish your art work by cutting away and excess paper the protrudes beyond the frame.