In Thursday’s Mexico class we had so much fun with our second project related to the Huichol people of Mexico.
Last week we did Huichol bead art and today we successfully mastered Huichol yarn art, or “nierikas”. (Click here for even more Mexico arts and crafts for kids!).
How beautiful are these colors??
We learned how nierikas are made and about the deep spiritual connection the Huichol people have to their art.
Here you can see the three most important symbols in Huichol art: deer, corn, and peyote.
To make this project seem less daunting – yarn work can take a very long time without a clear plan – I drew a simple sun design on each wooden rectangle.
The kids were instructed to fill the middle of the sun first and then go outward from the middle of the sun to finish the rays.
If there are too many curvy shapes to fill, kids can become overwhelmed easily.
They were also instructed to glue only the next section that they would be laying yarn on. This avoids a big sticky mess!
We will finish these in next week’s class and put them in wood frames.
Finished or not, these Huichol nierikas provide beauty at every stage of the process!
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