Every month, the Orlando Science Center hosts Young Maker Workshops that help hone little maker skills! This presentation will teach you how to draw a template and use hammers and nails to create your very own string art! Try it at home to explore simple tools while creating beautiful patterns with string and nails. This Maker project focuses on the following skills: measuring, cutting, spatial awareness and learning to hammer nails. For more detail, visit the Orlando Science Center blog at www.osc.org/diy-stringart

1. Young Maker Workshop
Exploring simple tools with String Art

2. From small and simple
to more complex

3. As big as a room, or even a
city!

4. Materials
• Wood square
• Goggles
• Tack Hammer
• Pliers
• 20 Brad Nails
• Ruler
• Protractors
• Embroidery Floss
• Tape
• Blank graph paper
• Pencils

5. Creating your Template
Use your ruler to draw a 5.5
by 5.5 inch square from one
corner of your graph paper.
Cut out your square Think of a simple design for
your art. Draw your design
on the paper

6. Plot your Points
Use a solid dot as a plot point for where your nails will go. Remember you
have 20 nails, that means 20 plot points. Erase, change and visualize as
needed while you plot your points.

7. Securing the Template
Lay your template flat on your board and tape down each side.

8. Hammering the nails
Put on your safety goggles!
Hold your nail with the pliers so your fingers are out of the way of the hammer.
Firmly hold the hammer handle and strike the head of the nail

9. Fill in your creation
Gently tear your paper template off the board.
Tie one end of the floss to your starting nail. Wind the floss from nail to nail in any pattern you choose.
When you are finished tie the end off on the last nail you used.

10. Some String Examples
Radial Patterns Geometric Patterns
Freeform Patterns

11. Thanks for participating in our Maker
Workshop
Enjoy discovering and making things?
Visit www.MakerFaireOrlando.com or www.OSC.org to
learn more about how you can get involved.