Quilt Trunk: School House Project

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The School House Project is a community outreach effort of the State Quilt Guild of New Jersey. The goal of the project is “to share the quilting experience with New Jersey schoolchildren at third and fourth grade levels, emphasizing the creative, mathematical, and historical significance of quilts and quilting.”

The project is being presented in a “trunk show” format and includes:

• A completed quilt and coordinated storybook, The Quiltmaker’s Gift, by Jeff Brumbeau and Gail de Marcken
• A quilt top (36 in. by 40 in.) made by volunteers with the School House block included
• More than two-dozen individual quilt squares made by guild members
• Quilt square storyboards telling the history of each square made and donated by South Shore Stitchers in Tuckahoe
• Dozens of elementary-age quilting story books donated by individual quilt guilds
• Work Station materials for a hands-on design project where children work in small groups and design quilt squares using the shapes provided. The squares can be combined to show the group effort. Emphasizing mathematical shapes and measurement, each child can reproduce his/her design using art materials or fabric, joining them for a class project.
• Historical information and folklore
• Mathematical worksheets and activities
• Foreign language books with English words above and Spanish below
• A comprehensive curriculum guide and resource list with websites for further references for quilt education
• Ideas and projects for quilting with kids

The trunk show is available to schools throughout the state. Schools may keep the trunk for a two-week time period. Contact Judy Kronmeyer at 609-693-5113 or jikron@juno.com to schedule the show.