Mrs. Alcock's second graders and Ms. Optie's and Ms. Pocic's kindergarteners participated in a Yarn Storming project that has beautified the school grounds.
Each group of students received a separate Art Talk on Yarn Storming, a global fiber-arts movement.
We read a book called Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett about a girl who has a magical box of yarn that never runs out. She knits and knits for everyone and everything around her, including houses, cars and wild animals.
We then looked at many images by textile artists (Carol Hummel, Magda Sayeg, OLEK, Knit the City, Knitted Landscape and others) that showed wonderful examples of Yarn Storming so that the kids could see how something as simple as covering an everyday item with knitting or crochet will put a smile on anyone’s face.
*The second grade class also learned to Finger Knit and the braids of yarn they created were used in the final project! Here’s a great YouTube video to watch if you'd like to try knitting with your child at home!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BMEOKmfUpU
Then we headed outside and each child attached a flower head, made of a crocheted “granny square,” and a flower stem, made from a crocheted chain, to the chainlink fence on the blacktop! The children were able to wind the stem in and out of the chain-link fence and then added leaves and blades of grass from the yarn.
After our three classes worked on the the fence it looks great! I’m sure that everyone will love the new “flower garden” the children created.
This Art Talk coincides with our next step in the Emerson Arts Initiative’s decorating of the front of our school. The flagpole has been Yarn Stormed as well!
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