Unlocking Fibers 2025

 

Fibers studio

 This week we will be visiting the Fiber Arts Studio!

We will document what we know in our Artifact Books

There will be materials on your table to share. You can help each other learn some skills for the Fiber Arts Studio.

Fiber Arts is about making art with threads, papers,  fabrics (material like your clothes), and yarns. Some of the materials are natural.

 Yarn can naturally come from a ...

sheep...baa, baa

Sometimes artists make weavings...materials that go over and under each other.

What do you think this woven basket is made out of?

 You can make a weaving out of paper in Fiber Arts...you could even make your own paper for it!

  Today we will practice weaving a yarn over and under.

In Fiber Arts  we use thread to sew with. The thread is wound around a spool.

We will use needles ...notice one end is sharp and one end has a hole in it.

 We also use pins to hold material together.

We keep our pins in a pin cushion to keep the pointed ends sharp.

We will learn how to thread a needle.

We will practice learning how to make a knot at the end of our threads. 

 

We will pin two pieces of fabric together ...

and we will sew some running stitches.

Key Stage 2

When a person sews, sometimes they make a sketch of what they want and they create a pattern. 

 

You will learn the whip stitch.

What kinds of things would you like to create in the Fiber Art studio this year?

Unlock the Sculpture studio

Let's Discover the Sculpture Studio

Sculpture is a type of artwork that is three dimensional. It can be seen from all sides. Sculptures can be made out of many things like clay, wood, metal, glass...you name it!

An artist who makes sculptures in called a sculptor.

We can see a sculpture in a museum...

Sometimes an artist can sculpt from unusual materials...

Sometimes artists create sculptures for the outdoors. Have you seen this sculpture in Forest Park?

 In sculpture you can add

some of the ways you add to your sculpture are by using slits, hot glue, tape, paper tape, brass fasteners and staples; these are attachments.

In Sculpture you can subtract

When you remove material such as carving, cutting or scraping, you are creating a subtractive sculpture.

In SCULPTURE we TRANSFORM materials

We change the appearance of the materials by cutting, gluing, wrapping in paper, coloring with markers or Kwik sticks to transform them from their original look.

We keep our materials organized... 

Containers have labels with pictures and words.  We put like items together.

  In this studio we use tools in a safe way...

All Tools are a choice. 

    Safety Goggle tools:                         Gloves:

Drill                                                 Hot Glue gun

Saw                                                

Wire cutters 

 

To Saw you must use a vice and safety goggles.  Two artists may saw at a time.  ONLY wood and corks may be sawed. 

*NO jabbing, stabbing or poking through sculpture materials.  use a drill to make a hole!  Drill in the vice or over your book.  

Today we will do a checklist to show that we are ready to work in the sculpture studio.

You will make a cylinder...

You will flange the cylinder...

Spiral and accordion fold

You will create tabs or braces...

After you flange a cylinder and show that you know how to make tabs, you may explore other ways to connect papers for sculptures...