We have selected six types of quilts to highlight
on this website. We provide background that includes an historical context, artist information, design elements and suggestions for ways to critically analyze the quilts. Activities for a specific age level are provided for the six quilt categories, but we hope teachers will adapt and modify the activities to the needs of their students. |
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Remember Me Students create a quilt for a special
event. Each student designs a 6 x 6 inch quilt square
that shares something about him/herself. Individual squares are then sewn
together into an album quilt. Alternative:
Create a paper album quilt. |
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Go Crazy: Quilts as Group Process Small groups of 5-8 students collaboratively create a crazy quilt. Each student chooses
a symbolic design that has meaning to
him/her or illustrates some meaningful event in her/his life on the quilt shapes chosen. Groups then create a paper replicas of their quilts, with individuals writing about the personal significance of the shape and symbols on the backside of each shape.
Once assembled, the quilts can be publicly displayed. |
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Nature Caught in Cloth (Making a Species Quilt) Using a flower garden quilt as a model, students individually create on paper a “species quilt,” illustrating what is being
studied in science. The student explains orally the subject or theme of his/her quilt. |
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Quilts: A Geometric Challenge Each student designs a 6 inch quilt square, drawn on paper at 1/2 scale.
Designs are then transferred onto fabric and individual
squares may be sewn together into a class quilt. |
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Making a Quilt Sandwich Young students learn that a quilt is made of 3 different layers by making a paper quilt called a
"quilt sandwich." They use simple addition to determine the
size of the class quilt. |
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Wearable Yo-Yos Students learn how to make a simple
yo-yo piece used in yo-yo quilts and create a variety of
uses for the versatile pattern. |
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