{"id":15286,"date":"2017-07-19T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T13:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smallhandsbigart.com\/?p=15286"},"modified":"2018-12-31T05:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:33:52","slug":"circle-weaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smallhandsbigart.com\/fort-mill\/circle-weaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Weaving Art Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trying to find a good circle weaving art project for elementary students? You can stop searching. You’ve found the one. This art project made for two fabulous days of art making with our summer camp kids.<\/p>\n
To start, we had students practice drawing organic shapes on large pieces of cardboard. \u00a0They selected\u00a0the\u00a0shape they liked the best, traced with a Sharpie, and then we cut it out with a box cutter. \u00a0We then\u00a0had them trace a large circle inside their organic shape on the back. \u00a0We didn’t cut these out until after they finished decorating the top.<\/p>\n
Day 1 – Making the Looms<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Day one was spent adding color and prepping our looms.<\/p>\n We were initially inspired by images of geodes, since we’ve had a slight obsession with them all year! \u00a0We had students draw lines with Sharpies on the bare cardboard, and then select either a warm or cool color palette of tempera paint to add a layer of paint on top. \u00a0The lines for the most part were covered up (oh well, we knew they were there!). \u00a0 When the paint was dry we came back in with oil pastels on the top, sticking to the same color family (warm or cool).<\/p>\n For the afternoon crew, we departed a bit from the geode inspiration and conjured up more of an image from a recent geometric painting project<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that was inspired by one of our favorite artists, Lisa Congdon<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0We started by having students draw geometric patterns, lines & shapes with a Sharpie. \u00a0We muted those with a decoupaged a layer of tissue paper on top. \u00a0We liked the idea of keeping them matte, so we just used regular school glue vs. Mod Podge. \u00a0After the glue was dry, they went over the top with white gel pens<\/a><\/strong>, adding or accentuating their Sharpie designs.<\/p>\n After all of the color + designs were dry, we\u00a0cut out their center circles.<\/p>\n Day 2 – The Weaving<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Before students arrived, we punched holes around their cut out circles. \u00a0Ok, here I’ll just confess\u00a0that it’s been years since we’ve done a weaving project and in hindsight, given how enjoyable it was, I really don’t know why! \u00a0As kids were literally unloading into the studio by the busload we were frantically punching holes in their looms, and I had a vague recollection that there needed to be an odd number of holes but couldn’t remember why. \u00a0I also suddenly drew a blank on how to string the warp. \u00a0#artteacherfail<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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