4th Grade- Spiral Weavings

I just love weaving projects and students do too. We created spiral weaving using cardboard. To set up our weaving we used a template created by another art teacher in my district (she is amazing). Students used the template to determine where to put notches with scissors in their project. Next, students chose a long piece of string to be the weft color. Finally our weaving was set up. Students then started weaving in a spiral pattern. I found myself constantly reminding my students to go over, under, over, under. The weaving aspect took about 3 classes. On the 4th class, students could continue weaving or they could use markers to decorate their edges.