Usually all boys and girls love to do crafts, and that is wonderful as through art children develop their personality and they express the world as they see it. When a child prefers colored pencils and paper to a video game, you can feel satisfied.
Spend time to do crafts with children, you have a series of benefits for the whole family. Not only on a family level, which is essential, but also on an emotional level. Spending an afternoon of creations with your children will help you to put aside obligations.
So you can relax and have fun with your little ones, something that we all need to carry with more humor the obligations and daily tasks.
But so that the afternoons of crafts do not become monotonous, you can plan different activities that your children surely do not know yet. They are sure to be surprised and spend the week looking forward to the day of crafts.
Today let's make an easy thread. Perhaps you have never heard this word, but surely you have seen this technique in some decorative object. If you want to know what it is about, then we give you all the details.
What is a thread
A thread is a way of creating art, with a simple and fun technique. It's based on create shapes by joining and winding colored threads, so that a three-dimensional shape is achieved. Causing a beautiful decorative effect.
To make a yarn we only need a few very simple elements. We must first choose the base on which we are going to build the drawing. To do it with children, I recommend you start on a cork, so that it is easier for them to nail the ends.
If you want to do it yourself, you can choose a wood, it will be much more professional. The tips can be nails or headed pins. If your children are young, do not let them manipulate these elements. Prepare this part yourself and let them wind the threads.
Then you will need colored threads, depending on the shape you want to obtain, you will need one or more colors. If it is to make a painting with children, the more colors the more fun it will be.
Thread technique
The technique is very simple, on the wood or cork draw with a pencil with a fine line the shape you want to recreate. Then go nailing the pins or the bald heads all over the profile of the drawing. Make sure that there is a similar space between all the nails.
It is important so that the figure is symmetrical, that all are at the same height as far as possible. Once it's ready, it arrives time to join the threads. This step is very simple, you just have to be careful and not miss any nails.
Hilorama for beginners
One of the easiest reasons to do is to create the shape of a heart. It is a perfect drawing to get started in the world of yarn. Once you control the technique, you can make hundreds of paintings to decorate your home and even to give as gifts.
You can do it as you see in the picture, and wind the threads on the bottom of the frame, leaving the blank heart in the center of the frame. Or if you prefer, you can color the heart, although to begin with, it is easier to do it the first way.
You can also create phrases that decorate your home
As you see in the sample image, you can make some beautiful posters that decorate your home. Choose well the phrase or drawing you want to create and get to work. This technique is so simple to perform and with such good results, that you will surely perform many and varied reasons.
When you go to do paintings with the yarn technique with children, choose simple materials, appropriate to their age so that there is no danger. You can use some cardboard plates, some pins with colored heads and some wool. It will be easier for them and together you can have a very special time.