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Colonial Quilt Quest
Students identify key events and people from Colonial America.
Students identify key factors of daily life in Colonial America.
Students gather and use information for research purposes.
Students create candles in groups following the...
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Story Quilts
Students send a square to their favorite author for a signature. They illustrate squares with something that reminds them of the stories. Students combine squares to create a quilt.
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The Fabric of Our Lives:
Students discuss quilts within their family to reflect on their experiences. Students examine quilt sqares and sewing techniques. Students create the quilt square in the classroom and a Hyperstudio card in the computer lab.
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Kids Quilt Together
Learners practice stenciling designs onto fabric in hoops. After the quilting is complete, they stitch lace around the hoop to make it more decrative. They share their quilt with the class and the class comments on the design.
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The African American Experience: A Research Quilt
Young scholars research the contributions of African American leaders of the 1900's, They design and construct a quilt square showing the achievements of that individual.
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Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Appliqué Bedcover Design
Students explore patriotic and classical motifs in applique design and technique. A bedcover or quilt is produced using appropriate symmetry, color,proportion and composition.
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Ge-Oh Boy, Oh Boy
Students listen to the book, Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt and discuss the art of quilting. They examine various symmetrical sewing designs, and identify reflection pieces, slides, and flips.
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Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch Quilts
Students designa unique quilt with specific blocks using eleven colors. Each student selects fabric colors, creates blocks, and using strip piecing expands the blocks to make a quilt.
PBS
Pbs: Quilts
If you've never thought of quilts as art, then you need to visit this site. These pages show quilts from across American over the last 100 years. Includes interviews with many contemporary quilters. You'll also find reports from teachers...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Calico and Chintz: Early American Quilts
An informative site containing twenty-one different images of quilts made in America prior to 1850. A brief paragraph below each picture describes the colors, fabrics, and message of each quilt.
Other
Mint Museums: Hands on Crafts
Interactive resource about pottery, weaving, quilting, and basketry. Includes informative texts, videos of children dicussing and/or performing their craft, ability to "make" crafts online, and information about places to go to make...
Other
Quilt Index: The Quilt Index
A database of images, stories, galleries, lesson plans, styles, techniques, and research about quilts, quiltmakers, and quiltmaking.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: History in Quilts
In this lesson plan, students will consider "History in Quilts." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 1, Issue 7: Quilts: Pieces of Art [Pdf]
This magazine article focuses on quilting including the history of quilting, the use of quilting for warmth in harsh weather, and quilting as an art form.
Other
Early Women Masters: Harriet Powers
A beautiful portrayal of the life and work of the "mother of African-American quilting."
Other
State Museum of Pennsylvania: Quilts
This site features historic quilts from the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Also available are links to quilting resources, a glossary of quilting terms, and tools used for quilting.
Other
The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
An online exhibit of quilts made in Maryland especially the "album quilt" which often contained pictorial images of urban Baltimore life. Learning activities and extra resources are included.
Other
All About Romance: Quilting: Woman's Work, Woman's Joy
A complete history of quilting including its importance in early American history. Sections describe who made the quilts, how they were made, quilting bees, and much more.
Other
International Quilt Museum
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln has created a graduate program in Textile History with an emphasis on quilt studies to nurture the appreciation of quilts as an art and for their cultural significance in history. Their International...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Quilts [Pdf]
Examples of quilts produced across two centuries puts particular emphasis on Crazy quilt patterning and on quilts produced by Amish quilters.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Arts and Crafts
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia details how the term "arts and crafts" came into existence and lists a wealth of links to other encyclopedia articles on different types of arts and crafts. Links are provided for additional...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Michael James
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Michael James is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his quiltmaking and his books on quiltmaking.
Other
Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.