The Keeping Quilt: Create a Keeping Quilt Classroom Community Project

Your students will love creating their own real class quilt! They will remember this lesson for a long time!

Included here is a set of three lesson plans to create your own classroom quilt based on The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. Additionally, you will receive two templates for the paper practice squares students will need for their sketches, and a photo of a past quilt that my students have made.

The lessons guide you page by page through the read aloud all the way through to the quilt square creation. This is PERFECT for building community at the beginning of the year but it can also be done midyear and at the end of the year as a fun culminating project.

Please know that you will need the book The Keeping Quilt in addition to fabric quilt squares and fabric markers for this. You will also need a way to sew the squares together. I had my fifth graders do this part! They loved it and it is another way of building community.