Weaving Projects to Make With Kids – Lesson Plans

I’ve been considering quite a bit these days in regards to the time I did a fiber arts summer season camp at my daughter’s college. 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 normally 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 beneath” idea. It’s nice for constructing positive 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 might need in your craft stash.

I like to begin with a nature stroll and have children select a persist with a v form. Then you possibly can be taught to weave on a stick, which is a cool factor to show.

Weaving with straws is one other simple approach 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 (when you don’t know the way to do that, try the tutorial from Childhood 101), and when you can simply weave on it in a traditional approach, I like this venture from Artwork Trainer in 101, the place she makes use of a cardboard loom to weave a colourful home. That is additional cute as a result of you possibly can add buttons or little items of felt to be the home windows and doorways, and each child is bound to make a singular venture.

And when you’ve acquired cardboard weaving down, there’s no finish to the issues you possibly can attempt. Artwork Bar has an incredible doodle weaving venture that I actually need to drop every little thing and make proper now as a result of it’s such a simple approach to mix leftover bits of yarn and play with weaving in a approach that isn’t simply making straight strains. So enjoyable for youths and adults!