My woven box

My Woven Box

Making my box was really hard because the skills we used were very confusing, especially weaving the papers under and over each other. When I started making my box I had to use skills that I had never used in my whole experience at school, and from there I have learnt how to weave, problem solve and heaps of other stuff.   But sometimes I keeped getting really confused because of the distractions around me and getting mucked up. The hardest part of this was measuring the strips so they could all be the same length. I choose to write about this because I’m really proud of it and I think I did a really good job on my first go.

How to make a woven box

First we had to get a piece of card paper and rule 10 strips of paper that were 3 cm x 45 cm. Next we cut the strips out and started drawing some patterns on them. After that we layed 5 strips vertically and then we laid 5  horizontally, then we started weaving them over and under each other until it formed a checked pattern.  Then after we did that we folded the strips so they could bend up.  Then as soon as we did that we then started on our longer strips.  We grabbed another piece of card paper and ruled 5 strips that were 3 cm x 70 cm.  Next we cut the strips out and started weaving them one by one, around the outside so it started to form a box, and then we sellotaped the ends together.  After that we got our last strip of paper and put it around the rim of the box.

Asha O’Gorman

21/10/16