Craft and design: Woven wonders
Learning fibre art skills such as plaiting, threading, knotting and weaving to create three-dimensional woven artworks inspired by artist Cecilia Vicuña.
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Craft and design: Woven wonders
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Give an opinion about whether an activity counts as ‘art’.
- Listen attentively to a visitor describing their creative interests.
- Draw and talk about a remembered experience of making something creative.
- Independently choose and measure lengths of wool and join wool sections together.
- Adjust their wrapping technique if something doesn’t work well.
- Show that they are selecting colours thoughtfully.
- Be open to trying out a new skill.
- Show that they are choosing materials based on colour, thickness and flexibility.
- Show resilience and keep going when things don’t go right the first time.
- Join in with looking for key features of Cecilia Vicuña’s work (knots, plaits, weaving etc).
- Weave with paper, achieving a mostly accurate pattern of alternating strips.
- Describe their own weaving and compare it to Vicuna’s artwork.
- Attach things securely to their box loom.
- Remember the process needed for weaving and attach some elements in this way.
- Discuss the choices they make and what they like about their finished work.
Suggested prior learning
Craft and design: Let’s get crafty
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Is it art?
Lesson 2: Wool wrapping
Lesson 3: Exploring thread
Lesson 4: Warp and weft
Lesson 5: Fibre art
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Knowledge organiser: Art and design – Y1 Craft and design
Aimed at pupils, a visual summary providing key facts and definitions from the unit "Craft and design: Woven wonders".
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Vocabulary display: Woven wonders
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Woven wonders unit.
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