Product Review: Rainbow Weavers

'Transform any window into a fabulous creative space of colour and pattern using these gorgeous weaving frames. Made from high quality Perspex the frames are supplied in Primary colours which when woven and attached to classroom windows will create beautiful areas of colour, pattern and light.'-TTS- Group

We've been busy transforming our garden into a more exciting environment for the children to explore. So far the garden has a new bug hotel, wild flower area, mud kitchen and vegetable planting area. To only thing I thought it was missing was a little colour so when we were asked if we would like to review the Rainbow Weavers from TTS Group I thought these would work perfectly the hang in the garden to birds away from the children's seeds. 

You can weave with a range of found/recycled materials such as ribbons, beads, threads, pipe cleaners and feathers. Whilst developing essential fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination children of all skill levels will enjoy exploring texture, pattern and materials as they work on their design.

We weaved ours using wool to finish the frame and the ribbon in a wide range of colours for the weaving when making the small ones the children wanted to keep indoor. The children love the stain glass effect, they light up our back doors beautifully. The nine year olds found this a little tricky as we were using fiddly ribbon instead on celephane and tougher materials. 

We then planned to use a mixture of materials on the outdoors frames which hung beautifully over our wild flower area which has yet to flower. The idea was that we could add objects we found in the garden that we liked, adding feathers to the weaving pattern and glueing petals to the frame. We also found a plastic table cloth and some other materials. The end product was perfect and the children enjoy adding piece every time they go out side. 

For now the frame hang under the plum tree but once we have a new line up we will move them to the planting area. The babies absolutely love watching them move in the breeze and the light shines through them beautifully. 

If you would like to purchase the Rainbow weavers for your own home or setting you can find them here on the TTS Group website. 

The weavers come in a set of nine (3 small, 3 medium and 3 large) with suckers in case you would like to stick them on the windows as we have. the only down sides I can find for these products are that it would be nice if the come in a wider variety of colours rather then just red, yellow and blue. They can also be quite heavy so I would suggest large frames should be hung instead of using the suckers. 

Disclaimer: We were sent the Rainbow Weavers by TTS Group to review. All opinions on the weavers are our own.