Paper Weaving
Joining Two Paintings
Second grade students produced two identical snowflake paintings for this project. First, the students drew their favorite snowflake design. Next, they used gouache paints to fill in the backgrounds. Then, the students produced another painting closely related to the first one. Both paintings were cut into one inch strips and then were carefully woven together. The final works of art produced an interesting fragmented design. This lesson came from Weaving Paper- Joining Two Paintings.
This project was done in three stages. First, the third grade class made popsicle stick art. Next, the class made tape art on graph paper. I made copies of the original compositions then cut the copies of the work for each child into strips. The class watched this video, Art with Trista: Paper Weaving. Lastly, we cut construction paper for the loom and made the colorful strips of paper our weft pieces. The students weaved their selected weft pieces through their looms to make beautiful paper weavings.