Paper weaving art lesson

Learn how to make a paper basket using this free printable template. This paper basket weaving will sharpen weaving skills and is so sweet for gifting!

I recently completed a 30 day online class run by Helen Hiebert called Weaving Through Winter. The class had a very open structure, Helen did a 30 minute video introduction each week on a theme and workshop participants could take the concept and run with it. We posted pictures of what we made and offered comments and suggestions to each other. It was a wonderful daily practice and meditation. If you want to see all 30 of my pieces check out my Instagram posts at @gina_pisello. I will show…

Discover Creative ways to weave with our Paper weaving Crafts for kids. The Collection includes FREE Templates for Most of them!

Instructions to learn how to make paper weaving placemats, which is a fun craft for children to do as a simple indoor and mess free activity kids will love.

Currently all of my first grade students are paper weaving. We are working large this year with 12"X18" pieces of paper as our looms and I wasn't sure how it would go. Normally, we work half that size but they did great! This isn't the end of what these weavings will ultimately look like. However, when I shared on Instagram, I got a lot of questions about the process. Did I cut the looms? If not, how did I teach it so they could cut them easily? I have a LOT of weaving videos on my YouTube…

So many "W" words! We Weave our Warp with a Weft or a Woof! Weaving is Wonderful! Second graders folded paper in half, and used rulers to mark off 5 or 6 lines to cut. Then they "decorated" the warp with a pattern, gluing on colorful or patterned paper strips between the cuts in the paper. When the glue was dry, they chose ANOTHER pattern to weave with. Some kids repeated the same pattern, others chose something totally different. When weaving was complete, ends were glued down, and the…

The Rolling Artroom: Warm/Cool Paper Weaving (1-3 Grade)

The 2nd grade students got creative with left over scraps of paper. We put it to good use through paper weaving, then made birdhouses. Each student added a door and roof, along with a bird to eac…

4th graders loved creating these illusions. I demonstrated how to use the 3 primary colors to create secondary colors. We started with a 9 x 12 piece of white paper. They chose a primary color for …

After a few years of having this project on my 'to teach' list, I finally got around to trying paper plate weaving with my Grade 4-6 mi...