Wrap Yourself in Memories- Paper Quilts

For our next project we created paper quilts from scrapbook paper. Each of us chose eight different pieces of paper that were linked to memories or important people, places, or events in our lives. I used a template to cut a square from four of my pieces of paper. I used a different template to cut a circle from the other four pieces of paper. Then, I glued each of my circles on a square. I had four pieces, so I cut each of them into fourths to create 16 different quilt pieces. I arranged the pieces how I wanted them on my quilt, and then glued them onto a sheet of white paper. I drew the border with markers.

After doing this project, students could be introduced to fractions. Each quilt block was made up of four parts, so the completed projects could be used to connect to the students' background knowledge. Students could be given slices of a paper pie or paper quilt blocks, which they could arrange and glue down. They could then find out how many eighths of the pie are red, how many of the sixteen quilt block are blue, etc.