One of my daughter's favourite toys for over a year now, is a lacing set where she 'sews' or laces different outfits onto a wooden doll's body. Having played with it over and over and over again over a this past year, she very quickly mastered the basic movements of hand sewing when I recently made her a 'sewing board' out of a recycled polystyrene plate. (Please click here if you missed that post). It was soon time to move on to something a bit more challenging. First up was sweet little…

Paper plate weaving is a fun kids' craft activity that's perfect for practicing fine motor skills and keeping hands busy!

Create a circle weaving with your kids at home using a paper plate, scissors, and yarn!

This paper plate yarn weaving activity is perfect as a Valentines craft or any time your kids want to work on early weaving and sewing skills.

Learn how to turn a paper plate into a colourful woven bowl to hold trinkets and treasures. Easy step-by-step instructions and video tutorial.

Paper plate string art is so easy and there's so many possibilities. I'll show you everything you need (free printables included).

Easy Cardboard Circle Weaving Tutorial: How to make a round weaving loom, how to weave on it, and how to take your project off the loom.

This week, we're going to attempt a project I've never tried before, but have wanted to for years! (Thanks Cassie Stephens!) Her colorful paper plate weavings, have always looked so spectacular, I wanted to try it out with our 3rd graders! Here's what we did! Materials: Chinet plates 10 3/8" Crayola Tempera Paint Big Kid's Choice paintbrushes Yarn Scissors Day 1: Talk about, and look at examples of weaving. (They have only weaved with paper before) Show them my example, of my painted plate…

After a few years of having this project on my 'to teach' list, I finally got around to trying paper plate weaving with my Grade 4-6 mi...

Paper plate ring toss? Genius!