Year 5 Weaving Frame

Students were challenged with this project to create a weaving loom on a cardboard frame by threading yarn onto it, and then weaving fabric strips in a pattern. The frame was painted with a food dye wash. Fantastic work!

Year 2 Hug Bracelets

Students watched a YouTube video about what happened when a small group of young people in the Italian city, Sondrio, decided to offer free hugs to others. The results were heart-warming! Students then learned how to bend their two pipe cleaners, representing two arms, and how to thread beads on these to create a bracelet.

Prep & P/1C Bead Snakes

First we read The Singing Snake by Stefan Czernecki and Timothy Rhodes, which is based on an Aboriginal legend about how the didgeridoo was first made. This book also has an underlying theme about honesty and playing fair. Students then threaded beads in patterns onto a pipe cleaner and added bead or button eyes to make their own snake.

Prep & Year 1 Patterns

We watched a couple of short videos about pattern, and discussed how patterns could be made in colour, shape, texture or in any combination of those. Students filled their long strings with as many patterns as they could make using colourful, textured and various shaped wooden beads.