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Fine motor skills
Paper Strip Weaving
A paper loom: a frame with parallel slits, colorful paper strips, and the classic weaver's chant: over, under, over... The next strip starts the opposite way, a checkerboard pattern appears, and their best pieces make lovely framed art or placemats.
- Age
- 4 to 6 years
- Duration
- 20-30 min
- Materials
- Printable: frame sheet with slits + colored paper strips + scissors
- Supervision
- Semi-supervisé
The activity sheet plus anything to print. Free, with an account.
Step by step
- Print the frame sheet, slice the parallel slits (using a craft knife: adult step), and cut contrasting colored strips.
- Weave one strip in slow motion, saying out loud: 'over, under, over...'.
- Let your child weave their first strip, then check it together before starting the next one.
- 'if the first strip starts OVER, the next one must start UNDER'.
- Mistakes show up clearly in the checkerboard pattern, so give them time to spot and fix them.
- Push the strips tight together, frame the prettiest ones or laminate them into placemats; progress later to thinner strips and patterns.
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