Sunflowers!! Our school garden and Van Gogh inspired artwork!

The sunflowers are sky high in our garden! I'm teaching our students a little about Vincent Van Gogh this week, so we decided to bring some of the outside in! Third grade will create an oil pastel/ water color still life of sunflowers. Our fourth grade students will learn to radial weave on a sunflower loom they created from paper plates! Here are some photos to show where we are on the process!

T shirt Weaving

T shirt Hoola Hoop Weaving

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I know I found the link in English somewhere...but here you can see awesome photos of how it works step by step.

 First,  you need to cut along the hem of the t- shirt all the way up to the armpits in strips to create loops to weave with.  The kids are also finger knitting large ropes and weaving with those as well. I told them I"d post this so they could do this at home. 

Happy Weaving!! I"ll post pictures of us hard at work soon!