During January and February 2019, teachers Aneta Shukriu Nebiu and Lence Popovska together with students from the fourth grade carried out activities within the monthly topic “Knitting” from the Art section of the Annual program for extracurricular intercultural activities.
The teachers and their students discussed about warm winter clothes and through various games they revealed the topic of the daily activity. During the realization of the daily activity “Winter Socks”, they students cooperated with each other and using yarn in different colors, they created woolen winter socks.
The aims of the activities are: to support constructive communication and cooperation between students and teachers from two different ethnic groups, to encourage the students’ creativity and originality through artistic expression and creation, to familiarize students with the basics of knitting as a way of creative expression and to develop fine motor skills and precision while knitting simple shapes.