Second Grade Story Quilt

The Second graders are currently working on a class quilt. Each child is hand sewing a picture using embroidery and applique techniques. Students used a pattern square to cut out their background fabric, and had to use their measuring skills to cut strips for a border. Each square tells a little part of the collaborative, oral story they improvised in class. Their story is about a dragon who loved to eat bacon. Actually he couldn’t get enough of it! The story took our friendly, bacon eating, dragon on a journey over the ocean, through forests and caves. During which, he passed snapping sharks, a swift pterodactyl, and a pesky monkey, all trying to get his bacon!

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First Grade Mini Pocket Pillows

First-graders have begun hand sewing! We spent much time learning how to thread our needles and tie our beginning knot in the thread. With weaving under their belt, continuing students had a good understanding of the motion of sewing, and new students bravely jumped right in, swiftly getting the hang of it!  In no time we were hand stitching! Students began with using the Straight (or Running) Stitch to embroider their names into small fabric squares. Then, students continued practicing their Straight (or Running) Stitch some more by sewing a box around their name. After completion, students chose a smaller piece of fabric to sew as a pocket onto a second fabric square. Put the two pieces of fabric together, add the Overcast stitch to sew the edges together, insert a little bit of fluffy stuffing, and you’ve got a mini pocket pillow! Watch for these creations coming to sleepy bedtime near you!

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Kinder Fabric Portraits

Hopefully the Fabric Portraits made it home safe, and are up on a wall somewhere in the home. After handling and exploring a variety of fabrics, students could articulate the differences and similarities between these fabrics. The students then got to use fabric, and even more exciting cut fabric! Cutting was a completely new experience for most students, thus challenging, but after a few classes, and some help from our parent volunteers, they got it down! Students were very proud of their work and had loads of details to point out.

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