Rainbow Weaving (Scrap Art)

A fortnight ago, I read this post about scrap centres from The Alexander Residence. It reminded me about the recycling centre that I used to visit when I was training to be a nursery nurse, and I wondered if sixteen years later, it was still going. It is, and it's been improved. I had a little think about what activity we could do using the resources that we'd be able to find there.

Then the next day, a post from the Goddess that is Cathy at The Nurture Store popped into my inbox about the new Kids Art Explorers' Challenge. The theme was paper-free art, and suddenly I knew exactly what I was going to be doing with The Boy.

His favourite song at the moment is the 'Mo-mo' song from 'Show Me, Show Me'. We both pretend to be robots, put on our best mechanical voice and do robot arms while singing about the colours of the rainbow. It's quite amusing and I'm trying to get it on video to post, but he runs away screaming whenever I produce the FlipCam lately.

When we finally managed to get to our local scrap centre we had great fun delving in all the bins, finding treasures, discussing what we could use them for, getting over excited with various materials that we had no use for (let alone space) and saving oodles and oodles of dosh.

Originally I'd intended to do this activity on the patio using the bamboo fence. But it's currently submerged in eleventy billion feet of water so I tied netting up against the bannister upstairs on the landing and we did the activity there instead.

I knew the iPad was an essential educational tool! We gathered our resources together, examined a reference picture and discussed which colours we needed. An interesting discussion about what colour indigo is ensued and then a discussion about the difference between that and violet. Try and explain hues to a two year old.

Life became a lot easier for both The Boy and me once I'd remembered he is left-handed and realised that threading from left-right was causing him issues. One of the many things that need reversing when teaching a left-hander.

Admiring our handiwork and our beautiful rainbow!

This was a really enjoyable activity and The Boy loves sitting and feeling the different textures in the rainbow along with singing Mo-mo's song. The total cost of the resources for the activity was £1. (Just ignore the cost of the iPad)

You can search for your own nearest scrap centre here.

I'm linking this up to The Nurture Store's Kids Art Explorers Project.

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Comments

  1. says

    Wow that looks really beautiful, so glad you enjoyed the scrapstore. My favourite bit was the ribbons and reels of sweet wrappings too. I will have to investigate the linky you mention now we've got some crafty posts up!

  2. says

    This looks amazing! Such a clever idea, glad you both enjoyed making it. Can't wait until D is old enough to be crafty x

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  3. […] Since I've shared a few tabletop looms and hand held looms, I'd like to now turn your attention to some large scale looms.  Yes, weaving is a great way to build fine motor skills, but it can be a large motor activity, as well.  Remember how I told you to look around your home to find inspiration for looms?  Well, take a look at your banister on your stairs and tell me what you see.  A giant loom!  That is exactly what The Boy and Me saw when she came up with this brilliant rainbow weaving activity using scraps of all sorts… […]

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