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Quick Classroom Quilting Tips...

Quilting activities integrate language arts, math, social studies, and art. In language arts you’ll be reading and discussing stories that complement your quilt. In math your students will be identifying the colors, shapes, and patterns in the quilt’s design. In the math area students can use Unifix cubes, color tiles, pattern blocks, tangrams, and geoboards to create quilt designs. Your students will learn about American history and culture as they examine and discuss the names of quilt patterns that have evolved over the years.

Classroom quilts can easily be created with construction paper and other art-project supplies. Cut construction paper into 9" x 9" or 12" x 12" squares for the quilt blocks.

Make a class quilt each month. At the end of the school year give each child back their own quilt blocks and assemble them into a memory scrapbook for each child to take home.

Here’s an easy way to assemble a class quilt. Lay out sheets of newspaper on the rug and tape them together. Ask the children to come to the rug with glue already on the backs of their quilt squares. As they arrive at the rug immediately place the squares onto the newspaper. Use strips from a package of a theme-related or color-related bulletin board trimmer to edge your quilt.

If you don’t have enough space in your classroom to display your class quilt, after you have admired it and discussed it with your students, see if it can be displayed in the Town Hall, Public Library, School Administration Building, or in The Learning Tree Store’s classroom.

We usually create a class quilt in my 5-hour workshops. We've posted pictures of some of the amazing quilts that were created by teachers in those workshops. We hope these photographs will inspire you and will encourage you to want to create quilts with your students. Enjoy!

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