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Thread Painting Bookmark / Marcador de Páginas Pintado con Hilos

- Young Adult
- Grades 1-3
Use Friendship Thread in a new way to create a colorful painted bookmark. Learn more about the art of painting with yarn or thread.
Materials
- Pencil
- Tacky Glue
- Scissors
- Card stock
Instructions
Step 1. / Paso 1. Gather your supplies. Reúne tus materiales. | |
Step 2. / Paso 2. Start by lightly drawing a design on a piece of card stock. A simple design will work the best. Avoid creating a design that has lots of little details, it will be difficult to cover all the details with the thread. We started by drawing a simple fish shape. Empieza por dibujar ligeramente un diseño sobre un pedazo de cartulina. Tendrás mejores resultados con un diseño simple. Evita crear un diseño que tenga muchos detalles pequeños, ya que será difícil cubrir todos los detalles con el hilo. Nosotros empezamos dibujando la sencilla forma de un pez. | |
Step 3. / Paso 3. Run a thin line of glue along the pencil outline. Pon una línea delgada de pegamento a lo largo del contorno que dibujaste con el lápiz. | |
Step 4. / Paso 4. Starting with the loose end of your Friendship Thread, press it gently into the glue. The Thread will stick to the glue. Empezando con el extremo suelto de tu hilo de la amistad, presiona el hilo suavemente sobre el pegamento. El hilo se pegará al pegamento. | |
Step 5. / Paso 5. Continue pressing the thread into the glue. We outlined the whole fish with the red Friendship Thread and then cut the Thread when complete. Sigue presionando el hilo sobre el pegamento. Nosotros pegamos hilo de la amistad rojo a lo largo de todo el contorno del pez, y cuando terminamos cortamos el hilo. | |
Step 6. / Paso 6. Run a small amount of glue along the top of the fish, under the top fin. Cut a small piece of red Friendship Thread and place on the glue to separate the top of the fish from the fin. Pon una cantidad pequeña de pegamento a lo largo de la parte de arriba del pez, debajo de la aleta de arriba. Corta un pedacito de hilo de la amistad rojo y colócalo sobre el pegamento para separar la parte de arriba del pez de la aleta. | |
Step 7. / Paso 7. Place a small dot of glue where the eye should go. Cut a small piece of green Friendship Thread. Using both fingers, add the Friendship Thread to the glue and wrap it around to create a spiral for the eye. Pon una gotita de pegamento donde irá el ojo. Corta un pedacito de hilo de la amistad verde. Usando los dos dedos, pon el hilo de la amistad sobre el pegamento y dale vueltas para crear una espiral que será el ojo. | |
Step 8. / Paso 8. Add Glue to the inside of the tail. Place green Friendship Thread in the glue and press back and forth, in the glue to fill in the tail, as shown. Pon pegamento en la parte interior de la cola. Pon hilo de la amistad verde sobre el pegamento y haz presión sobre el hilo de un lado a otro del pegamento hasta rellenar la cola, tal y como se muestra. | |
Step 9. / Paso 9. To make waves, first glue some pieces of blue Friendship Thread along the bottom in straight lines. Next, add curvy lines with the glue and gently press the Friendship Thread into the glue. It helps to use both fingers to guide the Thread into the glue so that the Friendship Thread stays curvy. Para hacer olas, primero pega unos pedazos de hilo de la amistad azul a lo largo de la parte de abajo en líneas rectas. Luego, añade líneas curvas con el pegamento y presiona suavemente el hilo de la amistad sobre el pegamento. Te ayudará usar ambos dedos para guiar el hilo sobre el pegamento, para que el hilo de la amistad permanezca curvo. | |
Step 10. / Paso 10. Add different colors of Friendship Thread to finish your bookmark. Add straight lines and curvy lines to make the design on your bookmark more interesting. Coloca diferentes colores de hilo de la amistad para terminar tu marcador. Haz líneas rectas y curvas para hacer más interesante tu diseño. | |
Further Discussion: / Más detalles: This project was inspired by the Latin American art of “yarn painting”. Yarn painting is traditionally done, by adding a special wax to a flat, wood surface. Then yarn is pressed into the wax, similar to how we pressed the Friendship Thread into the glue for our project. The yarn paintings are extremely colorful and showcase designs that are common in Mexico, especially images of birds and fish. The majority of yarn paintings are created by artisans of the Huichol people, ancestors of Aztecs. Pair this craft with a cultural lesson on the Aztec people and yarn paintings. Este proyecto fue inspirado por el arte latinoamericano del “pintado con estambre”. Tradicionalmente, el pintado con estambre se hace colocando una cera especial sobre una superficie de madera plana. Luego se presiona el estambre sobre la cera, de manera similar a cómo presionamos el hilo de la amistad sobre el pegamento para nuestro proyecto. El pintado con estambre es sumamente colorido y consta de diseños que son comunes en México, en especial imágenes de aves y peces. La mayoría de las pinturas con estambre son creadas por artesanos del pueblo Huichol, antepasados de los Aztecas. Añade a esta artesanía una lección cultural sobre el pueblo Azteca y el pintado con estambre. |