Story Quilts-Faith Ringgold

Project Description:  Today students will be making their own story quilts with pencils and fabric!

Goal: Inspired by an American Artist, we work to draw details of a story to explain a memory using the Color and Texture elements of art. What details are in this story? (ie a red striped umbrella, 3 base ball players wearing hats, or a blue dress). 

Step 1: Using a glue stick, attach fabric around the edges to create a quilt border.

Step 2: Think of an important event or thing that has happened in your life. Using colored pencils, draw this memory on the quilt sheet. Fill the page as much as you can with color. This is your "story!"

Parent Helpers Note: Encourage students to draw one of their favorite memories. A time spent on the beach with family, playing football with friends, or reading a favorite book in a cozy room are all examples of our most memorable memories or favorite past times. 

Supplies List: - Prep Note: Consider doing fabric first, or be sure there is no drawing where the fabric goes.

• 1 small 9x12 piece of paper

• Name tags

• Colored pencils

• Fabric squares

• Glue sticks (Art Smart likes to gift Kinder the glue sticks they can keep)

• Dry racks