Year 4 Oil Pastel Paper Weaving Mat

Year 3 - 6 Ojos de Dios

Students loved creating the traditional God's Eyes or, in Spanish, Ojos de Dios, and first learned its history. This craft originated with the Huichol indigenous people in western Mexico. The God's Eye is started the first year a baby is born and each year a new colour of yarn is added. It hangs over the child's bed and symbolises God's protective eye watching over the child.

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 3 Stretchy Tube Weaving Card

Year 5 Weaving Plates

Year 1 Spider Web Weaving Plates

First we listened to the book Sophie's Masterpiece read aloud by CCH Pounder on Storyline Online. This story is about a wonderful spider named Sophie who is initially misunderstood and feared, yet finally seen clearly and recognised as an artist that can weave a beautiful web.

Students learned how to draw a simple cartoon spider and drew this on their plate, colouring it in with marker and then colouring the background with crayon. Next students threaded their plastic needle and weaved a web across their plate. This was a tricky lesson yet all students persevered with impressive results.

Year 3 Paper Weaving

This term we are working on projects using threads, textiles and weaving techniques. Year 3 students tried their hand at basic paper weaving using rainbow coloured mats and strips.