Ann-Kim-Gina


 * Ann-Kim-Gina**


 * We are going to be reading the book __The Patchwork Quilt__ by Valerie Flournoy. This story is about the long process of making a quilt and all of the effort that has to go into the finished product. After learning a little about how quilts are made, we hope that the children will take away from this an understanding of the importance of family and how special a quilt can be. For our activity, we will be making a large quilt out of construction paper, as well as letting each child make their own quilt by weaving construction paper together. Each child will get a 5" by 5" square of construction paper that they will get to decorate and when everyone is finished, we will hole punch the squares and tie them together with yarn to make a big paper quilt for the group. For their own quilts, the children will receive construction paper that is pre-cut and they will have to weave the pieces together. We will provide examples. Materials we will be using include: //construction paper, markers, crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks or bottles, hole punches, and yarn//.**