Stencil jumping

Okay kiddo, imagine you have a piece of paper with a lot of shapes drawn on it. Now, imagine you only want to draw or color inside a specific shape without going outside its boundaries.

That's kind of what stenciling is. You use a sheet of material with cut-out shapes on it, and you hold it over your paper. Then, you use a pen or some paint and fill in the shapes on the paper that the stencil covers.

Now comes the jumping part. Let's say you have a stencil with a heart shape on it, and you want to use it to create a row of hearts on your paper. But the stencil doesn't connect the hearts, so you can't create a continuous line of hearts without moving the stencil each time.

That's where stencil jumping comes in. You carefully move the stencil over a bit and line it up with the last heart shape you drew. Then you use it again to create the next heart in the row, and then you move it over a bit more, and so on until you have a whole row of hearts.

It can be a little tricky to get the stencil in the right spot each time, but with practice, you can become a pro stencil jumper!