Weaving Projects to Make With Kids – Lesson Plans

I’ve been pondering lots these days concerning the time I did a fiber arts summer season camp at my daughter’s faculty. It was a lot enjoyable exposing children to knitting, crochet, cross sew, weaving and different enjoyable issues to do with yarn and string.

Educating weaving to children is fairly simple as a result of they often get some publicity to it naturally in crafts they do in school with woven paper. Most children by first or second grade will perceive the “over underneath” idea. It’s nice for constructing high quality motor expertise and studying about repetition. It’s additionally tremendous calming and an effective way to make use of little scraps of yarn or strips of cloth you may need in your craft stash.

I really like to start out with a nature stroll and have children pick a stick to a v form. Then you’ll be able to study to weave on a stick, which is a cool factor to show.

Weaving with straws is one other simple solution to get children began with weaving, and with this tutorial from One Little Venture children can simply and rapidly make a colourful bangle bracelet.

Making a loom out of a chunk of cardboard is a traditional (if you happen to don’t know the way to do that, take a look at the tutorial from Childhood 101), and whilst you can simply weave on it in a standard manner, I really like this mission from Artwork Instructor in 101, the place she makes use of a cardboard loom to weave a colourful home. That is further cute as a result of you’ll be able to add buttons or little items of felt to be the home windows and doorways, and each child is certain to make a singular mission.

And when you’ve obtained cardboard weaving down, there’s no finish to the issues you’ll be able to attempt. Artwork Bar has a fantastic doodle weaving mission that I actually need to drop every little thing and make proper now as a result of it’s such a straightforward solution to mix leftover bits of yarn and play with weaving in a manner that isn’t simply making straight strains. So enjoyable for youths and adults!