This yarn painting would be an appropriate "love" themed craft for any Bible lesson about love. The theme is based upon a very popular folk aesthetic often incorporated into the arts and crafts of young students. I would recommend this particular project for 4th or 5th graders. It takes time and patience to complete it, several hours at least. If you are working with students in a Sunday school class to complete a project like this, allow for several Sundays to finish it properly.
- Create a Butterfly Yarn Picture with younger students
- Here is a simpler dove motif for first and second graders
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| Finished yarn painting of heart in hand. |
- yarn in variety of thickness, color and texture
- white school glue
- recycled masking tape role (empty)
- hot glue and hot glue gun
- silver tape
- pink paper for nails
- heavy corrugated cardboard
- utility scissors for cutting cardboard
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Cut out a rectangle shape from the heavy cardboard. This will be the piece you will need to use as a backing for your yarn painting.
- I made a template for this project by drawing around one of my hands, with my palm and fingers shaping a half heart.
- Then I transferred this drawing on top of a large, folded piece of newsprint, butting the heart shape made by my thumb and pointer finger at the edges of the folded half of the paper.
- After this, I cut out the hand and heart template and unfolded the newsprint to reveal a mirror image of the template.
- I then traced this on top of a second piece of corrugated cardboard to make my heart-in-hand design.
- Glue a design made with your own hand tracing on top of your first cardboard rectangle in order to have a template similar to mine to work with.
- You may need to stack heavy books on top of the cardboard form to get it to lay flat over night while the glue dries.
- Flood the heart opening with white glue and wrap the interior shape with yarn, gently pressing it into the shallow space. Fill the space entirely before moving onto the next. Repeat the same method until the entire design is finished.
- Cut the empty masking tape role in half and attach a bracelet to one of the arms using hot glue. Cover it with metallic tape, foil, or paper whatever pleases you.
- Cut finger nails from thin cardboard and decorate them using paper or paint before hot gluing these onto the fingertips of your design.
- Tape a yarn hanger to the back of your yarn painting and hang it up in your room.
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| Left, cardboard cut-out of hands. The negative space between fingers forms the heart. Center, the cardboard hand cut-out is glued on top of a second sheet of cardboard to add strength and make it easier for young students to glue yarn to its' surface. Right, here you can see that the center "heart" space was filled first with glue and the yarn pressed inside it. |
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| Left, up-close detail of bracelet wrapped in foil tape. Right, up-close details of finger nails. |
See a yarn painting interpretation of Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Many people do not know that Vincent Van Gogh started
out as a minister before becoming an artist.
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