Lesson Planning

Explore the craft of spinning and how it has developed over time. Practice spinning using the drop spindle technique and use poetry to show the process that spinning goes through.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To learn how the craft of spinning has been important to people through the centuries and how it has changed and developed over the past 1000 years.
• To investigate how fibres can be twisted into yarn through the process of spinning and to learn the craft of hand spinning using a drop spindle.

Children will:

• Learn how the craft of spinning has been important to people through the centuries and how it has changed and developed over the past 1000 years.
• Spin a ball of yarn from sheep’s wool (fleece) using a drop spindle.
• Learn about the whole process from sheep to yarn in the form of a poem that is an adaptation of The House that Jack Built.
• Make a zigzag book and use it to write and illustrate the poem.