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ART ACTIVITIES This year we will be having tables where kids can make Papel Picado Papel Picado Tissue paper is the basis for another art form, papel picado, in which multi-layered sheets of colored paper are cut out from a pattern to make banners. These popular banners are ordered for local fiestas, birthdays or home decorations and may depict flowers, leaves, birds, angels, crosses, or anything specified. Increasingly, the banners are made to represent skeletons in an infinite variety of activities and are sold for the Day of the Dead, November 2nd. Originally, papel picado was laboriously cut out with scissors, but now artisans use sharp chisels to cut through as many as 50 sheets of the tissue paper from a basic pattern. When we drive by streets covered with these tissue paper flags, we don't realize that not only are they a Mexican art form, but could have deep religious significance as well. (source: The Chapala Review Ristras, Papel Amante y Papel Picado A Mexican Art Form By H. Bercovitch http://www.mexconnect.com/amex/chaprev/cprv06011.html) Materials needed: * Brightly colored tissue paper * Scissors * Glue, * Construction paper Directions: * Fold paper into quarters cut out triangles and other shapes. * Unfold, glue to construction paper |
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