Craft and design: Woven wonders
This unit focuses on developing pupils' ability to express opinions about art, use creative techniques like wool wrapping and weaving, and understand the work of artists like Cecilia Vicuña. It emphasises skills such as measuring, choosing materials, and resilience in artistic creation, catering to children's creative and cognitive development. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.
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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
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Lesson 1: Is it art?
- To know that art can be made in different ways.
Lesson 2: Wool wrapping
- To choose, measure, arrange and fix materials.
Lesson 3: Exploring thread
- To explore plaiting, threading and knotting techniques.
Lesson 4: Warp and weft
- To learn how to weave.
Lesson 5: Fibre art
- To combine techniques in a woven artwork.
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