Basket Weaving Instructions

In A Song of Frutas by Margarita Engle, baskets of all shapes and sizes are used to display and carry the beautiful, juicy mangos, limes, and pineapples. Music Readers that received this box used a basket weaving template to display their new Nino Percussion fruit shakers. Here are the step-by-step instructions for completing that craft…with pictures!

Materials: Cardboard basket template

Punch out the pre-cut holes in the template.

Fold each of the "arms" in towards the center

This creates a bowl-like shape.

Tie (or tape) one end of the large bundle of raffia to one of the "arms" on the template.

Weave the raffia in and out of the arms.

View from top/About halfway done

View from the bottom/About halfway done

Tuck the extra raffia to hide it.

Tie or tuck one end of the small raffia bundle and begin weaving (more like sewing) in and out (and over the top) of the holes.

Store your Nino Percussion Fruit Shakers!

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Tips

• The tighter you pull the raffia as you are weaving, the closer together the template arms will be. This will affect the size of your basket.

• Time to complete: Approximately 20 minutes

• You can cut the small bundle of raffia in half to help speed up the “sewing” process. Pulling all that extra raffia through that many holes takes a bit of time.

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How did your basket turn out?! Let us know in the comments or tag @musiclibrarybox on social media!