1st Grade- Picnic Weavings

I love doing weaving project and once I saw this one, I knew I had to do it in my class. Here is the link to the original: Artsonia

This was a 2 day project
Day 1: We wove. This is the first time these students weave in art so it takes almost a whole class period. We fold a yellow 18 x 12" paper in half. Draw a vertical line on the open side. Then we draw horizontal lines leading from the fold to the vertical line. Students cut on the horizontal lines. They get excited about this part because they say it looks like a hula skirt or a lantern. We then weave the pre-cut strips of red paper into our project. Students really need to focus to do over-under on the first piece, and the second piece is under-over. We then put glue on the back in a picture frame shape and attached a 18 x 12" paper of any color.

Day 2: This is lots of step-by-step directions. We glue on the plate, we cut manila paper into bread slice shapes, shade the edge of the bread slices with color sticks to make crust, glue one piece of bread to our plate, add tissue paper to the bread to create sandwich fillings, and  glue the top piece of bread on. Students then received red and green paper to make a fruit of their choice, as well as crimped paper to cut out chips. They received a square of white paper to make the napkin (which can be decorated to their liking) and finally they added ants and watermelon seeds with Sharpie marker.