Diane and Yeltsin
lTitle of Lesson: Paper Tapestry Weaving
Grade Level/Participants: K-1st grade
Objective: Students will learn about the weaving process and create their own weavings out of paper.
Outcome/Standards: A paper weaving with complementary and analogous colors. Identifying the loom, understanding ‘warp’ and ‘weft’, and the ‘over, under’ technique.
Materials:
Cardstock paper loom: This will serve as the rigid support for the weavings.
Construction paper color strips: These will be strips of different colored construction paper. These will be cut an prepared prior to the lesson.
glue sticks: the glue sticks will be used to adhere the weavings to the cardstock loom.
Vocabulary:
Weaving: Interlacing long threads that form fabric.
Tapestry: Thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by weavings.
Loom: An apparatus that holds threads.
Warp thread: The threads that remain stationary.
Weft thread: The threads that are inserted over and under.
Steps in the lesson
Motivation/Introduction:
Does anybody know what this is? (show loom)
How do you think fabric is made?
Aesthetic/ Historical Exploration (Discussion/ Show and Tell):
Different weaving patterns (Peru, navajo, persian) rugs/tapestries.
Show examples of paper weavings we have made.
Procedure/Demonstration/Studio
Prepare samples ahead of time for demonstration.
Demonstration of ‘over and under’ technique.
Distribute materials to students.
Have students engage in a physical activity to understand the over/under technique of weaving.
Start to weave.
Finish up the project with gluing the ends down onto the loom.
Closing Reflection:
Reflect on artwork produced.
combined weavings.
Assessment Criteria: The student will create a weaving from paper.