Share the Wonder 2021: Week 4—Gifts made with paper

Welcome to Share the Wonder 2021, the Farnsworth Art Museum’s winter celebration. Each week, beginning on Saturday, November 27, we will offer special Share the Wonder activities!
Feel free to follow along in the Share the Wonder booklet, available for download on the main Share the Wonder page here.

Special thanks to our primary sponsor for this event, The Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Foundation. Additional funding provided by First National Bank.

EGG CARTON ORNAMENTS

Join artist Christina Thibault as she walks you through how to make simple and elegant holiday ornaments out of egg cartons!

SUPPLY LIST:

Egg cartons

Water

Strainer

White glue

Cookie sheet to dry Your Ornament in the oven

Hot glue gun

Sandpaper sponges

Cookie cutters

Acrylic paints and brushes

Sewing needles

Awl, or thick knitting needle

String

Scissors

Blender is optional for a finer mash

ON VIEW AT THE FARNSWORTH

Rockwell Kent, Untitled (Greenland), circa 1930s, Oil on canvas on panel, Bequest of Irene von Horvath, 2009.2.2

Featured in Maine and American Art: The Farnsworth Art Museum with thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation and Wyeth Foundation for American Art.

“The harsh but beautiful icy, snow-covered landscape of Greenland was a frequent subject of Kent’s work, and he sought to capture the eerie light of this far northern island. As he wrote in his 1935 book, Salamina, in Greenland he found “as though for the first time…the beauty of the world…”

ORIGAMI CRANES

Origami Flapping Crane: Artist Autumn Heil shows you how to make flapping cranes with origami! Origami is the art of paper-folding. Its name derives from Japanese words ori (“folding”) and kami (“paper”). Traditional origami consists of folding a single sheet of square paper into a sculpture without cutting, gluing, taping, or even marking it.

SUPPLY LIST:

Any kind of paper, cut to a square size