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Paper Weaving Lesson




Description:

This paper weaving project required three different colored sheets of construction paper, glue, scissors, a ruler, and a writing utensil. I chose the purple colored paper because it represents healing and protection which are two things I value. The green paper symbolizes plants, farming, and growth, which appealed to me because I grew up on a farm. Lastly, I included the gold paper because it represents high quality and I wanted my art piece to be just that. We used "under, over" and "over, under" processes to weave the two different colors into the main one. As students created the weaving project, the teacher discussed the history of weaving in nature and human cultures. 

Extension:

A good extension for this project that I found would be to have students weave a paper shape rather than one big square. For example, they could weave sea animals and add details such as gluing on google eyes. They could choose a color of construction paper and cut out their sea animal from four different templates: sea turtle, whale, fish, and dolphin. From there we would weave the paper to give a scaled/textured effect. 

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