Paper Plate Weaving

 

Circular weavings on paper plates have been popping up on various websites for the past few years and I finally undertook this project this year with my grade fours. My students used warm colours to paint their plate as well for their weaving so as to represent a sun.

Line Weaving

 

Is it just me or do kids find weaving really, really difficult? I usually start the junior grades off with paper weaving before venturing into textiles but I feel like it takes many, many demonstrations for them to grasp! 

Anyhow, this lesson also teaches line types, qualities and directional lines. I had the students rule up two pages, one with vertical lines and the other horizontal and then asked them to use a black marker to draw a different type of line inside each strip. Once the strips were cut, they wove their lines together and once they were finally complete they did look quite effective. This very cool lesson idea came from For The Love of Art.

 

Complementary Colour Woven Hearts

This lesson idea for these woven paper hearts comes from Magic Dragon Magazine. I used this lesson around Valentine's Day as an introduction to weaving textiles and to teach complementary colours to grade 3 and 4.

Cardboard Loom Weaving

This was my first attempt at a cardboard loom weaving project with my students. We enjoyed watching I.K Tolbert's youtube videos on weaving. We made ours into little wall hangings and I love each and every one of these. My students were terrible at knot tying though, which meant I was kept very busy. I would recommend knot tying lessons for all students before attempting a project like this again!