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Welcome School Teachers...
 Here
is a new school activity to consider
Available
in Clay & Cherokee counties in NC; Towns & Union counties in GA
Children's quilt story books
for classrooms
Small
quilts made to match the picture
Contact
us for information regarding this project for your classroom
 
 The
Misty Mountain Quilters' Guild hopes to encourage, in children, an
awareness and appreciation of quilts by sharing books about quilting
and by telling them about the quilting process. Children's books featuring
quilts in the story, accompanied by little quilts matching illustrations,
will be provided by the guild.
Volunteers
will be available to read the stories to groups of children, to answer
questions about quilting, to give special presentations, and to help the
teacher plan and carry out quilt-related classroom projects.
The
Storybook Quilts collection of books for students kindergarten through
sixth grade is diverse in subject matter and reading levels. The books are
about various historical periods as well as current times. Various
cultures are represented in the books. In addition, the books deal with a
wide variety of themes such as moving away, death of a grandparent,
solving problems, discrimination, family adjustments and cooperation.
The
Storybook Quilts collection includes books demonstrating simple quilting
activities, chapter books for older children, professional books for
teachers, ideas for activities to use with the books, quilt designs to
color, hands on projects, etc. Age level recommendations, summaries of the
stories, topics for discussion, and suggested vocabulary lists are given
for each book.
The
Misty Mountain Quilters' Guild hopes that the trunk of quilts, books and
activities will enhance the students' education and appreciation of the
quilting heritage.
Story Book Volunteers:
Beverly Adkins Ann
Atkinson Barbara Bone
Beverly Gibson Carol Ann Harrison
Maureen Ripper Nancy Smith
Procedures:
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Contact the Story Book Quilts Chair, Maureen Ripper at
mlripper@yahoo.com to schedule a guild member to come to your class or for more
information about this project.
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Please make
contact at least two weeks before you want the visit to occur.
(Many of these people are very active in various organizations.)
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Explain what type
of activity you want to do. This will help us contact
the person who can best meet your needs.
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If you want to
continue the project,you may talk to the volunteer who comes to
help you to determine if they can come for another visit. If
this cannot help with the next phase of your project, she will
make contact,to schedule another person.
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