Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Fabric Forms 9/16/16


For our first Arts Collective After School of the 2016/17 school year we had a in-house project to make fabric forms to use as decoration for our upcoming pancake breakfast.

The kids started with a wire hanger, they could change the shape by bending the wire or leave it the way they found it. Then they could choose from baskets of fabric strips,  colors and textures to add to the form - tying or looping  them on to the wire. 

There were quite a few creative solutions to the simple prompt and selection of materials, some children wove into the center of their wire form and some created fringe with the material. 

We had quite a lot of white cotton (from tearing down sheets) which I worried would be less exciting to the kids.
Several kids commented on the small of clean laundry that the white had and decided to use only that material for its sensory qualities, and some children found the white to be a excellent canvas for adding their own images.