Weaving for Preschoolers...

This is another little post courtesy of my sister-in-law, Denise, in Ottawa. She's jazzed about weaving --- as are we, down at the studio, and more on that later... in the meantime, I'm going to try this project with my 4yr old Georgia and I'll let you know how it goes.
Denise writes:
I took a weaving class and fell in love. It's so peaceful to weave. I used a rigid heddle loom (which I'm wanting to buy, though maybe I'll rent one first). So of course I came home all excited for Luke to try weaving with our cute little INKLE loom and of course it was a disaster. The yarn kept coming off our loom and we just didn't have any fun at all.
But wait! That can't be the end of our story.
We had a much happier time weaving onto a plastic fruit basket. And, silly me, as we put the fruit basket onto the Easter Nature Table, we found the baskets he had already woven. At Parsifal Waldorf School (last year) his class decorated a simple paper daisy by weaving yarn in and out around the petals and thus turned the flat daisy into a bowl. A handle makes it a basket.
His favorite type of weaving is a circle song: "The thread follows the needle, in and out the needle goes. The thread follows the needle, this is the way we mend our clothes." While they are singing, the kids move in and out through a circle of friends.

~R.