Brazilian Basket Weaving

We talked about the half of South America with the Amazon River and rain forest. I showed the students the different people that depend on the river and the land around it to survive and how they use nature to build their homes. We practiced paper weaving with patterned and colored paper strips in simple cut-cardboard looms that I made. After coloring the "baskets" we joined them together with tape to make a tube form and tied some twine at the top. The OT department loved the inclusion of fine motor skills in this project!