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Last year during a county-wide professional development day, I met with fellow art teachers from my county who shared successful projects from their art rooms. One teacher had a friendly loom, which she demonstrated on and described how great it had been for her students. This particular art teacher had parents and community members donate old t-shirts, which she cut into loops for her students to use on the loom. She talked about how the kids in kindergarten through fifth grade loved working together on the loom to create rugs. Accelerated students enjoyed weaving on the loom as an early finisher activity. Struggling students could be paired up with a more advanced weaver to practice on the larger friendly loom. Once completed, the students also sold the rugs, generating several hundreds of dollars for the art room in a year. Ever since I learned about the friendly loom, I have been yearning to have one in the ALES art room for my students to weave on together! I think they would love to create large collaborative weavings with peers. The students would also be meeting state standards for weaving, by working with color schemes and applying skills they are learning through their grade level weaving projects on the larger loom. As a fundraising tool, I would like for the students to be able to take pride in knowing they helped raise the funds for the art room through their hard work weaving. Please consider donating to this project! It would promote teamwork, provide a standards-based activity for early finishers, aid in fine motor skill development, and help us weave t-shirt rugs that could be sold as an art fundraiser. The friendly loom would be an excellent teaching tool and that provides fun collaborative art experiences for my students!
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