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I am in dire need of easy handwork for an eager 6yo and was about to buy one of those potholder-making looms I remember from childhood when DH shared a childhood experience I had never heard: a homemade loom (basically nails in a board) that used yarn (which we have plenty of) versus the store-bought kind (that requires more money upfront plus additional purchasing of loops).
I really like this idea but a search didn't turn up anything here. I'm heading over to scroll through YouTube  but I'd love to hear if anyone here can chime in with experience.
I really, really need something crafty for her. poor girl is growing up in a handwork-impaired home.  
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I don't know about making a loom but I know for the storebought ones.. you can make loops from the tops of socks or tights.. so that you don't have to buy them and you can get something other than plain nylon type of fabrics.
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I make them out of cardboard.
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We've made looms before. The "easiest" were "made" by using a chair -- one with two parallel supports that go into the bottom of the legs... I'm not explaining that well. Look at the legs of this chair. If you wrap yarn round and round from one of those horizontal leg supports to the other, you make long loops. Those would be your warp threads. Then you can take yarn and weave it in and out by hand to make the weft threads. An added bonus is that chairs are low to the ground and don't need to be held in place while weaving. Perfect for little weavers.  When the project is finished, you just snip the creation off the chair.
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I am going to teach my co-op class (mostly ages 8 and 9) paper cup weaving next week.
I've also used shirt cardboard to make a weaving loom.
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My Girl Scouts made little round rugs using a plastic coated paper plate (I think they are made by Dixie?). Just cut slits around the edge and across the plate. Then weave by starting in the center and weaving in a circle.
My daughter's bead loom is also handmade. It is a wooden cradle with nails in a dowel on one side, and a large screw on the other to hold the warp threads apart. She has won Champion in Weaving at the County Fair for the last two years with this handmade contraption. It works great!
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I used a hexagon shape loom as a kid. Here is a video on Youtube showing how to do it. There are other links showing square shaped looms as well. The video doesn't show it, but I trimmed the edges after I was done.
My mom still uses those as potholders today. I had forgotten all about doing this. I bet dd would enjoy it!
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One of our books had a loom made from a yardstick, two chairs, and yarn weighted by washers. It used a cardboard needle? shuttle? (not sure but the thing you use to weave the horizontal lines). Tie the yardstick to the back of two chairs (backs facing one another with the yardstick spanning the space between them). Tie yarn at close intervals across the yardstick cutting to desired length, weight with washers, and weave with yarn tied to the cardboard needle? shuttle? I think we will try it as it is one project for which I think I actually have all the materials.
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I just KNEW there would be great ideas to be found here! (although I must confess, I didn't expect there to be so darn many of them!) I am SO glad I didn't buy a cheap plastic loom!
so many wonderful choices I had never even heard of ... now I just have to decide between them all. thank you so much, you crafty geniuses!
thank you, most of all, for helping me make a very sweet 6yo very happy. 
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Topic: has anyone ever made a loom?
