Yarnbombing: project description
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The document describes a project to create colorful knitting art decorations for schools across Europe. The goals are to have fun, bring smiles, and add color through a collaborative process involving students and teachers from different education levels. Participants will learn knitting techniques, create decorations for their schools, and share their results online or in a private space depending on privacy policies. They will develop skills in collaboration, creativity, presentation, and using technology like blogs, websites and video tools to share the project.
Yarnbombing: project description
- 1. Yarn bombing What? Everyone knows Graffiti as a way of street art. Yarn bombing is another way of art to express yourself on the street, in a building, in a neighborhood. Wikipedia tells us the following about yarn bombing: “Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing Project description With this project we want to create colorful schools around Europe by creating some knitting art. We make decorations for our school buildings and the neighborhood with students and teachers of all kinds of educational levels. Project goals General goals: Having fun Causing a smile on the face of teachers and students Giving colour to our lives Developmental goals Working on a common result Participating in group activities Dealing with new experiences Using IT to present their own activities and results Using IT to communicate Increasing presentation skills Increasing creativity Experimenting with different materials and techniques Proces Step 1: Getting to know each other: Presenting the school and/or the students and teachers involved in the project in a creative way: video, pictures, ICT-tools In the presentation we must see the link to yarnbombing (adding some details about knitting, …) Taking care of the privacy rules of every country for publishing pictures of students on the internet Step 2: First knitting lessons Creating manuals and video to learn how to knit and crochet Creating and sharing patterns
- 2. Step 3: The artwork Creating some colorful and nice things to decorate the school Trying to make the shared patterns Sharing results Webplatform Google site or weblog Twinspace for pictures that cannot be published in public Materials Pictures Video of the making of IT-tools Computertools we can use: Blogger Google site Twinspace Voki Picasa Windows movie maker Slideshare Youtube Maxclass Twitter Facebook Publishing and brainstorm tools Other materials Knitting needles Crochet needles Wool in all kinds of colors and sizes Sewing needles Patterns Photocamera Computer Decoration tools …