Weaving for Primary Grades
Weaving, a skill used for centuries to make useful items for life, is also an easy craft for young children to begin to see patterns, and learn to create order and usefulness from basic items.
Find out the value of weaving for children, and see easy tutorials in the videos or Blog Link here.
Items for Survival
Weaving has been used for centuries to create products useful to life and survival, for items such as baskets, mats, hats, and clothing. Natural items such as grasses, bark, woven thread, and wool have been used.
Warp and Weft
Weaving is the process in which two or more fibers – the warp and the weft – interlock. The First Nations wove items by hand. Since the industrial revolution, power looms have been used.
Benefits of Weaving
Weaving teaches children fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, creativity and order in patterns and textures, and mindfulness, patience, and perseverance,
