Woven Baskets

This week for our craft we made woven baskets. Of course back in the day they didn't use sour cream containers but for our young group it made it easier.

Supplies

• scissors
• tape
• sour cream container
• yarn or wool
  

I wanted to use a rope to make it look more authentic but after trying it, it was to stiff and didn't work. We ended up just using yarn which worked great but I would suggest using a thicker yarn so that the container doesn't show through.

For the older girls we cut the stripes thinner and for the younger ones we did thicker strips so they didn't have to go around as many times. It was a little tricky for the girls but with our help they were able to do it and after going around a few times they caught on.

So all you do is get a piece of string and start at the bottom and go in and out all the way around. When your sting runs out cut another piece and keep going. We did put a little piece of tape on the end of each new string so it would stay in place.

Here is the finished basket. If we did it again I would use darker yarn and like I mentioned before use a thicker one. We also hole punched the top and added a handle.