4th Grade - Warm and Cool Color Weavings

Week 1: After discussing the color wheel and the difference between warm and cool colors we painted two seperate painting using lines.  One painting was with warm colors the other was with cool colors.

Week 2-3: On the back side of our paintings we traced a cardboard strip to create lines all the way across the paper.  We then cut these strips of paper apart.  These strips would become the "threads" for our weaving.

Week 3-4:  Onto the weaving process!!  We discussed the important terms of our weaving project - we first started by creating our loom which was a solid colored piece of construction paper that we first tore the edges off of.  Next we glued on our WARP "threads" so that they were about 1/2" apart.  Finally we were able to weave the WEFT "threads" over and under from left to right.  We decided to leave a bit of space between each weft strip so that you could see the background paper through the weaving.

Week 4: Last, but not least we wrote along the edge of the torn paper about what we learned from this project. 

How cool do the warm and cool colors mixed together look!