This post about fiber arts in the TAB classroom was about changes I had made to my fiber arts center a few years after I posted the first post about introducing my fiber arts center.

I added this chart which showed the different types of fiber arts we were going to be doing.

I always start weaving with the first graders by teaching them paper strip weaving. Here are a few ways some girls in the second grade took their weavings a bit further.

Some of them cut them out and pasted them on top of other papers while others just pasted different shapes on top of their weavings.

This girl cut out her name and placed it over her weaving allowing it to show through her name.

These were baskets I did with third graders. I don't remember exactly how I did it but, I do know that I probably got the idea from this book You Can Weave.

We made some sort of cut open box with slits and then wove through and around the slits.

There's no way I spent as much for that book as it seems to say it costs now (I probably bought it second hand)but, it's an excellent book. If you want to learn lots of different weaving techniques then this is a great book to have. I use it all of the time.

We finished off those baskets with a strip of folded over construction paper.

Straw weaving below is another weaving activity I learned from that book. That is an activity I've only done with 5th and 6th graders.

The wallet below that is shown closed and then open showing you the velcro used to close is was created with standard sewing material. Just open holes that they fill with yarn and then we decided to make it into a wallet.

The older the kids get the more they have to do some sort of embroidery on their pillows before I even allow them to sew it together and stuff it.