Yarn drawings

 

My art students at the Academy for the Blind moved beyond Wiki Stix for tactile drawing when we used the quilling technique, but using yarn or string to create drawings is more permanent than Wiki Stix and more immediate than quilling individual coils to create an image.  Students were open in terms of subject matter. Some students chose to make something abstract with squiggles and spirals. The important thing is for them to realize that they can make images that can be appreciated as a visual piece of art for those with vision and as a tactile piece of art for those without. It's a great project to teach types of lines, and weight of line as they choose thick or thin yarn (or both).

And for my student who recently discovered that art class can be used to make mazes, he could make them a variety of ways. It was fun to hear him laughing each time he figured out how to make a dead end to trick one of his class mates.