Patchwork Quilt

This week we created cute patchwork quilts. I have to admit, I had a little trouble with the project because I am a perfectionist and I couldn't get all of my squares to line up perfectly. However, it turned out really cute. 

First we started out by picking out 8 pieces of 12"x 12" scrap booking paper. The next step was to chose 4 of those papers and cut a 4 inch square out of each of those 4 papers. Those squares were the background pieces of our quilt. Next, we took the circle pattern and cut out a circle from each of the remaining 4 pieces of paper. Now we glued the circles to the middle of each square. Each square had a circle in the middle of it, and we could choose which circle went with each square. 

Now that the circles were glued down, we took our smaller 1" square pattern and traced it 4 times on the back of each 4" square. After we traced and cut all of the smaller squares out, we had 16 1" squares. Then we got to chose the arrangement of all of the smaller squares. I just kept switching them around until I found which pattern I liked best. Next, we glued them down leaving a boarder around all of them. When we glued them down, we had the option to glue them all together or separate each of the 4" squares. After we were done gluing, we had to draw a boarder around the edge. I chose to decorate the corners. 

An extension activity would be to crate a real class quilt. Each child could decorate a square using fabric markers. The child could draw something that represented them, or use a topic you are learning about. It would be fun to do an abc quilt and each student has to come up with an item that starts with that letter. For example, if the students were studying Lewis and Clark the students could each draw something that starts with  the letter that has meaning to the Lewis and Clark adventure. The students would be learning and creating at the same time.