Woven wonders

Homeschool Program: Woven Wonders

today the lad will be learning the following: 

Children 5-12 will learn the basics of hand-spinning and weaving while applying skill and artistry on their own woven piece. They will learn to spin wool from fleece by hand, create a handloom, and weave on it.

The rest of the day he will spend at gramma's while hubby and I kibitz about. 

some pictures of yesterday's learning at the London Art Museum

 12 year old lad he spent time chatting with about science

 backlooming I think this is called

 learning to use a spindle

 he couldn't manage the spindle and the part that moves the yarn up and down so I helped

what he managed to do before getting bored and frustrated. 

He also learned how to make a rope which I thought was rather cool.

and he learned about making a simple loom using carboard. 

It was all quiet sit down work so we let him learn and then we let him chat.   We left a bit early since he was done, we were done and had an errand to run before going to gramma's.

Never Felt Better

Felting....today my lad learned to felt at the Art Museum of London. They have a homeschool art program there.

the program he attended was called

Never Felt Better

Children will learn the sculptural technique of wet felting, in which crisscrossed layers of wool are dampened with warm soapy water and agitated by rubbing and rolling, and will experiment with felting around a form to make three dimensional pieces.

about 20 children all told. Some of us parents chose to help. Good thing we did or the singleton teacher would not have coped particularly well with that many students.

The lad had a hoot.

He at first didn't much like his snake, but later he was quite intrigued by it.
He does DISLIKE intensely the mat that he made. "it doesn't look like anything mommy". So we may end up throwing it out.

It was a good experience for us. Next time we'll try to get there a bit earlier so parking isn't so expensive.

the next one we'll go to will be on book binding.