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Rose3 Learning Experience - Hessian Weaving
"Learning Experience" activities and suggestions that will empower and enable you as educators to support multicultural education using the principles laid out in the new ELYF Framework.
Please find below free valuable, insightful and practical ways that multiculturalism may be brought into your early years learning environment on a daily basis using the "Early Years Learning Framework" (EYLF).
Each article includes:
- Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) Outcomes
- Key Learning Area Links
- Extension Ideas
- Equipment required
- Instructions
- Global Kids Oz Linked Resources
All articles on this page have been kindly created and modified specifically for Global Kids Oz use by Rebecca Perkins of Rose 3 Learning Experience, all articles are subject to full copywright guidelines and may only be used within a classroom environment and not to be used for any other article content for any other reason, permission to copy or use this content for anything other than a EYLF setting must be approved in writing by Rebecca Perkins of Rose 3 Learning Experience. To access more learning experiences supporting the full ELYF program please contact Rebecca directly on 0402 284 581 or go to her website www.rose3.com.au
Objective: for children to develop a variety of skills and knowledge while sewing/weaving
Materials
Pieces of hessian, different shapes can be cut for interest. (plain and coloured hessian can be purchased or if you prefer to recycle, many fruit shops will give hessian potato bags away for free, they will need a wash but children can help do this or throw them in a washing machine.) Blunt end metal or plastic threading needles. Different types of threads and fibre (wool, raffia, string, plastic tubing, ribbon, long pieces of grass will also work!) Collage materials (buttons, pasta, beads, items that can be hole punched)
Instructions
Make different lengths and types of thread and fibre available for children. Thread on to needles. (needle threaders make children feel more independent and are very in expensive) Place on table near collage trolley/materials and make hole punch available. Discuss appropriate and inappropriate materials to put holes in and sew. Let children sew/weave freely.
Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes*
Outcome 1: Children
- develop confidence and knowledge through sewing and discussing learning experience
Outcome 2: Children show
- respect for the environment through their choices of appropriate and non appropriate threading items
- awareness of cultural diversity through traditional craft
Outcome 3: Children
- become strong in their socail and emotional weelbeing through interactions with others and personal success.
- are responsible for physical wellbeing through fine motor development
Outcome 4: Children develop
- crreativity, persistence and imagination, making decisons about materials to use, classification and manipulation of materials
- abitlity to resources their learning through natural and processed materials
Outcome 5: Children
- interact verbally and non-verbally for a range of purposes
- make meaning using a range of media - threading materials
- begin to understand how pattern systems work
Key Learning Area (Skills and Knowledge) & Pre-Numeracy (Mathematics)
Patterning and sequencing— a one element pattern (the same item over and over) or a 2, 3 , 4 element pattern. Observe if children can repeat patterns, do they self correct? Number (Counting and Addition) “one more” and “how many stiches altogether?” “add another leaf”. One to One Correspondence (counting skill) Positional Language— before, after, next, through.
Literacy/Vocabulary (English) Colours, thread, weave, sew, before, after, through, next, add, more, altogether, art, hessian. Discuss materials used.
Health and Physical Education Fine Motor Skills—Threading, sewing, weaving and manipulating objects.
Science Collecting, grouping, classifying– things with holes, things without, items from nature, processes materials. Different colours, different shapes. Let children think of classifications
Studies of Society and the Environment Weaving and sewing are major parts of most cultures and traditions around the world. Sewing is a basic process to all societies, underlying a variety of textile arts and crafts, including embroidery, tapestry, quilting, applique and patchwork. In many Eastern European countries such as Romania needlework is still a main occupation. In Hungarian villages three types of traditional needlework with blue, black, and red threads are popular. Weaving is a traditional skill in Maori, Polynesian cultures & most Aboriginal cultures
The Arts Method-Weaving/Sewing, Texture and materials. Colours of creation.
Extension Ideas If the children made a specific pattern see if they can say it out loud. Make a threading with matching pattern. Sew outdoors with only natural materials. (Many grasses will sew/weave, leaves can have holes punched, use raffia etc) Make string weaving between sticks for children who’s are more skilled.
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