This lesson is VERY messy but VERY fun and always impressive in the end! I gave students various tools such as small plastic cups, textured rollers, q-tips, and plastic forks to "paint" with. Students were given two similar paint colors such as green and blue or red and orange and also white. The painting process for this lesson is pretty much open, just let the kids experiment with each tool and mix the colors as much as they want! Once dry we used a ruler to mark off every inch on the back of their painting which will become the weft. Students then cut along each line careful not to cut all the way to the edge. I pre-cut various colored paper to weave through the painting. I demonstrated how the strips go "over" then "under" each slat in the weft. It may take a few times for some students to get the hang of it but practice makes perfect in this case. Once all the strips are woven, we added a dot of glue to the underside to secure them in place.
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