Window Art by Klutz

Why should kids get all the fun? Some things are too cool for us adults to pass up. Take Klutz products for example. Have you ever passed up a Klutz display without desperately yearning for at least one of the books on the rack? Is it just me?

The best Klutz craft book by far is Window Art. The end product of the craft is a plastic window clingy outlined in black and filled in to imitate stained glass. The book comes with a big bottle of black goo and five smaller bottles of transparent colored goo. You squeeze out the black outlines of your picture onto a sheet of plastic. When it dries, you fill in the spaces with colored goo and wait for that to dry. Then the whole thing peels off the plastic and will stick to any smooth surface. And because it doesn’t have any adhesive, it is completely removable and repositionable.

The book is full of drawings for tracing. If you, like me, can’t draw a stick figure to save your life, you simply put your plastic sheet over the picture you like and trace it with goo. I’m good at tracing—and I’m good at coloring, so this is a perfect craft for me.

After I made some traced window art for our bathroom, I turned my attention to the appliances. A few years ago, when I bought my KitchenAid stand mixer (one of my prized possessions), I debated over which color to get. I finally decided on white because it matches everything, and you never know what color kitchen you might end up with someday. But something in me did yearn for a little something more exciting… and that’s when it hit me. Window Art!Window Art by Klutz