All in all, it was pretty successful once we got rollin'! I showed them the video that everyone suggested, and you all were right- they LOVED it! :) In the end, we just cut our strings loose and tied them together. I had them pick out a background color of construction paper and they glued the weaving right onto the paper, then I staple mounted them to some white tagboard. This was a 3-4 week lesson, and all of the kids had fun doing something different than the usual drawing/painting/collaging we usually do. Every other grade level kept commenting on them when they saw them in the artroom ("when do we get to do that?")... :D
I love weaving!!! The students get so into it. Couple years ago I started buying specialty yarn so the kids could add an extra POW to their weavings. If you have Big Lots around you...I got a ton of it there for just $1 a skeen. They only get to use one specialty yarn..and it must go with the color theme they've selected. Here's a link so you can see what I mean.
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I love all the bright colors used! How cool! I'm just curious, what was the video you showed your students??
ReplyDeleteI'm curious too as to the video you showed. How did you create the weavings? Is there a link to the where you got the instructions? They look great mounted on the bright colored papers.
ReplyDeletewhat video did you show them?
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. E! Great idea!!!
ReplyDeleteHere is the link to my previous post that has the url for the video I showed (see the comment section) There are a ton of other great ideas from other art teachers regarding weaving in the comment section.
http://artiswhatiteach.blogspot.com/2010/11/question-for-art-teachers-cardboard.html