Weavings!
Every year I do weaving with various grade levels. While the projects are changed up the principals and techniques taught are the same and with each grade level a new challenge is added.
In first grade, students created a background for their artwork with cool colors. They then drew fish that
would act as the WARP for their
weavings. They added the WEFT and
used painted paper to add fins to their fish and seaweed to their backgrounds.
Second graders created painted paper
weavings. To create the paper that would function as the WARP they first experimented with different kinds of lines and colored between them with
crayon filling the entire paper. We then created paintings with tempera cakes that we cut
up…yes... cut up to use for our WEFT.
For added interest they then mounted their weavings on paper and added a design.
Third grade students explored the element of Form to create the Relief weavings displayed here. They first glued a grid onto a
support background and then used construction paper- bending, folding and
gluing as they went to turn their weavings in to a 3 dimensional work of art.
Once the initial weaving was
completed many students added additional decorative elements into the warp and weft of their weavings to create added interest.
