Today we traveled to Mrs. Henry’s studio for our art lesson. First we finished our collages of cityscapes, and we even added a real photograph of us surfing in the foreground!
Then we read the story The Goat in the Rug that lead into the next lesson of dyeing and weaving. It is a Navajo tale set in Window Rock. We learned that goat hair is “mohair” and sheep hair is “wool”. We used many tools: carders, looms, dye from onion skin and berries picked from the yard, and wool. We followed up our lesson with Annie and the Old One, a Newbery honor book.
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| Lauren carding wool. |
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| Samantha carding wool. |
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| Carders |
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Gathering berries from the garden
to make home-made dye. |
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| Finished product! |
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| Our looms before our weaving. |
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