What a great day - working with all the year groups, in a local school as part of their African week. We looked at the traditional story of how a spider inspired the cloth designs; what the symbols and colours meant and how it was woven. We then, depending on the year group, tried our hands at weaving and created our own printing blocks before printing on both paper and fabric. The older class also created different patterned papers which they interwove. The nursery class listened attentively and then using premade blocks printed their own patterns on fabric. ...and it was so busy I never got a to photograph the wool weaving on a loom!
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| Printing on paper ..the foam block is at the top. |
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| Printing and oil pastel with water colour weaving. |
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| More paper weaving and below. |
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| Printing on fabric - the masking tape grid was removed after it had dried. |
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| Nearly got the pattern! |
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| Printing blocks - the corks glued onto the back helped nursery to print the blocks. |
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| Printing on fabric.... |
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| ..and paper. |
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