PAPER WEAVING
                                                                                                    GRADES PK+
                                                                                  MATERIALS
                                                           ● Different colored paper
                                                           ● Scissors
                                                           ● Ruler
                                                           ● Pen or Pencil
                                                           ● Optional: craft cutting mat, hobby knife or razor blade, 
                                                               paper cutter
                    OBSERVE                              CREATE                                    PLAY
           Allow children to learn the       Using the Simple Paper                  After the basic checker pattern 
           basic weave pattern.              Weaving video tutorial, change          is made, how will changing the 
           Watch how they construct          different variables, like the size of   over/under pattern change the 
           their understanding of visible    both vertical and horizontal            design? What other designs 
           and hidden paper sections.        strips, to create different effects.    can you make?
           KEY CONCEPTS                      QUESTIONS TO ASK                      THINGS TO NOTICE
           Patterns                           ● What are some other                ● Child’s interest, joy, play, and 
           Different repeating patterns          materials that can be                perseverance in creating
           can create unique designs.            woven?                            ● Child’s use of vocabulary as 
           Geometry                           ● How might you change the              they weave their designs
           Various geometric concepts            weave pattern?                    ● How do they relate what they 
           like shapes, angles, and           ● What do you notice about              are doing to other math 
           different types of symmetry.          how the shape of the strips          concepts (fractions, counting, 
                                                 can change the pattern?              geometry)?
           Spatial Reasoning                  ● Where do you see weaving 
           Relational vocabulary (over,          in your world?
           under, above, below, right,                                             LITERATURE CONNECTION
           left, etc.). 
           Art                                                                     Rainbow Weaver/Tejedora del 
           Concepts of color, shape,         RESOURCES                             Arcoiris by Linda Elovitz Marshall 
           use of different materials.       AIMS HANDS ONline Webinar             and Elisa Chavarri    
                                                                                             
                                             3D Illusion Weaving                   Circle Unbroken by Margot Theis 
                                                                                   Raven
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