WEAVING! A perfect family activity

Come learn to weave in the grove at the Glen Arbor Arts Center this summer.  Pick up a free kit in the office (open 9-3 Mon-Fri, 12-4 Sat-Sun) and head outdoors to the grove. Instructions about setting up the cardboard loom and weaving the threads and materials are provided in each kit.

Be sure to read the book, Rainbow Weaver by Linda Elovitz Marshall while you’re in the grove.  The book’s pages are reprinted and displayed in 13 reading stations. If you aren’t familiar with Rainbow Weaver, it is a bilingual (English/Spanish) children’s book about a young Mayan girl named Ixchel who, unable to use her mother’s thread to practice weaving, creatively repurposes colorful plastic bags into beautiful, rainbow-like fabric, solving both her desire to weave and her village’s plastic waste problem. 

There’s also a large frame loom that everyone can weave on! 

You’re welcome to display your weaving in the Little Free Art Gallery out front.  Picnickers are welcome in the grove as well as the new picnic area out front just beyond the parking area on the green.