This year, Kitah Bet has been exploring fabric. We first introduced them to this material in a curtain making provocation. The children selected scraps of fabric and ripped it into ribbons. The Morahs then helped tie the strips together and then attached it to a long cord mounted across the wall.
The children then were presented with a wire, fabric, and clay provocation. The children made wire tree sculptures with a clay base. They decorated the wire branches with fabric scrap “leaves” and pom-pom “flowers.” These sculptures decorated the table at an event for their families.
This week, The children were presented with a roll of mesh fencing. First we put on work gloves to protect our hands from any pokey wires. Safety first!
They unrolled the material.
The children explored the mesh by pressing it. Can we make it flat?
They manipulated the mesh by wrapping it around themselves then bending and pressing on it.
They discover that they can go under it.
“It's a cave!”
The children started placing some of their animal friends in the “cave.”
With the metal armature now sculpted, it was time for some fabric adornment.
We offered the children fabric of various colors and textures.
Morah asks, “What color is a cave?”
The children suggest black, brown, grey.
We then select yarns, felt, and scarves in these colors from our fabric bin.
Rosie cuts some fabric for the cave.
Victoria adds some black felted “rocks” to the structure using wire.
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