What’s another way of braiding?
Have the kids stop as described above, with half the kids holding their ribbon high and half kneeling and holding their ribbon low. Then two kids skip through the middle, like from 12 o’clock to 6 o’clock on the circle. Then two other kids can skip through the middle from, say, 3 o’clock to 9 o’clock. Then everyone gets up and skips in the other direction, wrapping the ribbon around the pole in the other direction. Then they stop, and the kids who knelt get to stand and the kids who stood get to kneel. Then different pairs of kids skip through the middle again. For variety, this one could probably also be done with all the kids kneeling while the pair of kids skip across the circle. Then what? Just repeat whatever sequences the kids have learned so that they put a weave on the pole. Every kid can have a turn dancing through the middle,or around, or whatever.
