Fourth grade has been crazy busy weaving! Basket weaving it where we started. So many great discussions about what weaving is, why it exists, and how it came to be. All 4th graders were delighted to find out that they were going to be making a functional piece of art... meaning something they can actually use! They all cut out a template as we discussed a weaving pattern. Some of them could recall weaving from second grade, but the vast majority forgot how to problem solve their way through the pattern. Also, to weave the bowl they were working around a circle, not just back and fourth.
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| A pile of bowls awaiting to be finished and taken home. |
I meant to get a picture of the weavers in progress, but I ended up cutting yarn, helping problem solve knots, and a plethora of other things that popped up. So after the yarn created strong walls and got about an inch away from the edge, all of the yarn was neatly trimmed and the bowls were finished off with a bit of paint on the tips and the base.
As weavers were finishing up with the bowls, others started creating a paper weaving. 4th grade measured and cut a loom to weave on top of. Next they picked up a few colored strips of paper. They wove using an ABAB pattern. All hands were on deck to staple these weavings into cylindrical tubes. They will look like lanterns hanging from the Art room ceiling.
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| Weavings ready to be be tubes or cylindrical |
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| Totally Tubular! |
