Crafting with Yarn


This project was in the realm of crafting. There are many different ways you could go, but for this project, we made baskets. We wove our own baskets by using different colors of yarn and a small plastic cup. The cup was cut into seven equal sections. (You can see the sections on the picture on the right below.) Once the cup is cut, you take long strings of yarn and weave them back and fourth through the sections. One of the requirements for this project is that we had to use at least three different colors. You could use more if you wanted. I chose pink, green and purple. you can weave as much yarn as the cup can hold. This was a great way to learn about different weaving techniques and the general history of a basket!

A different way that you could incorporate weaving is by having students make their own dream catchers! Dream catchers, along with baskets, were a huge part of Native American culture. It's a great way to incorporate many things into a unit about the history Native Americans.






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