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Showing posts with label Volunteer. Show all posts
Weaving Wonders!
Collaborative Co-Grade Level Project

To help reinforce weaving concepts across all level, we have two large scale weaving projects that we are all working collaboratively to create.  The kiddos love getting the chance to add a few rows when they finish early.  

This awesome Loom was created for us this year by a parent volunteer.  We are weaving with recycled t-shirt yarn on this loom.  Our goal for this one to make a functional rug that we can use in the library.  We don't have a specific pattern or plan for this weaving... so we will see how it goes and grows!
Our 1st graders are currently learning how to create mini looms and weavings based on this big one!  I'll post more on this project as they finish up :)


 Our second loom was created out of two branches and twine.  We are weaving with shredded scraps of donated clothes and fabrics.  I worked with our older grades to create a plan for a woven picture.  They decided on creating a "Coastal Landscape".  It is looking really good so far!  I love love love the textures of the random fabric scraps! 



THANK YOU
At-Home Parent Volunteers!

With the help of some awesome volunteers, our t-shirt yarn collects has started to grow!  We will be doing several woven projects this year and being able to create yarn from donated t-shirts is an amazing way to turn a recycled resource into amazing works of art.  Creating this t-shirt yarn is not hard but it is labor-intensive... so I really appreciate the time these ladies invested in these lovelies!

We could use even more help collecting enough yarn to start our projects!
1) You can donate old t-shirts...any color, any size, and it doesn't matter if it has prints or stains.
2) You can donate time... and make some t-shirt yarn for us!  I will gladly send a few shirts home with your student for the yarn or you are welcome to use your own worn-out shirts.

Send any shirts or yarn to the school with your kiddo!

Here are some instructions and a video link to show you how.