Weaving, weaving, weaving!!!

Lots of weaving has been going on in the Art Room this year! Check out what each grade has been up to.

Kindergarten created paper place mats by weaving with paper.

First and Second Grade made painted paper and used it to create their weaving.  They turned their weaving into houses for a collaborative mural.

Third Grade made a weaving with yarn on a small loom.  Then they learned now to sew the edges together to create a pouch.  They added a braided cord to the pouch so that they could wear it around their neck.  Now they have a special place to keep their things!

Weaving on a small loom

Evey's woven pouch

Kaitlyn's woven pouch

Sara's woven pouch

Earlier in the year, Fourth Grade learned about the different regions of North Carolina and created a tree weaving based on their choice of region.  They painted paper plates with a landscape of a North Carolina region, then added the tree in the foreground by weaving.

Piedmont and Mountain Regions of North Carolina

Fifth Grade is working on different weaving techniques including plain weave, box weave, basket weave, and rya.  They are weaving wall hangings.  They have worked really hard on these! Some students even made up their own weaving patterns!

Sixth Grade created a circular weaving on a CD after learning about Egypt.

Sixth Grade Art Club meets on Fridays.  These students create their own projects, and I am just there to guide them.  Weaving was one of their favorite projects.

Dalton showing off his work from Sixth Grade Art Club
a woven wall hanging and a pillow for his grandma

Second Grade Clay Owls

Second grade students have been learning about color families in art.  We had already learned about warm (red, yellow, orange) and cool (blue, green, purple) colors and now it is time to learn about neutral colors.  The neutral colors are browns, blacks, grays, and whites.  These colors are not found on the color wheel.  The second graders has already been curious about theses colors because they didn't see them on the color wheel.  That lead into our discussion of owls and why they were neutral colored.  We create our owls of out clay, glazed them and then made nests for them.

Group shot of a few owls in their nests

Second graders learned about neutral colors while making their owls.

They reviewed neutral colors by making nests for their owls

Blue Ridge has a KILN!!!

Mrs. Postlethwait's pottery

Making pottery is one of my favorite art forms. So when I came across a great deal on a kiln this past summer I had to get it! Now the kiln is installed at school!

Here is the kiln.  A kiln is like an oven, except it gets a lot hotter! Hot enough to take all the moisture out of clay and turn it into glass! 

Second grade students were the first to get their hands on creating something in clay.
We are learning about neutral colors and making owls.

The owls are loaded in the kiln and ready to be fired.