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Objectives:

What You Need:

• Construction paper &/or gift wrap
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Glue &/or stapler (to attach handles)

What You Do:

1. Cut 1 strip about 1 inch by 7 inches (to be used as basket handle).

2. Cut 2 (from contrasting papers) 3 inches by 7 to 8 inches rectangles.

3. Fold in half and round the cut ends.

4. Mark and cut in 3 inches from fold, 4 three-quarter inch wide strips, as for a Japanese lantern, leaving the rounded ends in tact.

5. Weave the folded strips through each other [the first folded "strip" of #1 goes around first folded strip of #2, then through #2's second strip, around #2's third strip, and through #2's fourth strip.

6. Repeat with #1's second strip -except in reverse order [ie., through #2's first strip, around #2's second strip, through the third strip and around the fourth strip.

7. Weave #1's third strip with directions for #1's first strip.

8. Weave the fourth strip as was done with the second strip.

9. Attach the handle with either glue or with a stapler.

10. You can decorate the individual squares formed by the weave [as some of our students have done, or leave "plain".

11. The basket size can vary.

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