Helping hands quilt earth-friendly ideas
Sonya Tremblay from Nova Scotia writes:
I am an educational assistant at West Colchester Consolidated School in Bass River, Nova Scotia. I head up an environment/science club for grades 1 to 3. This year, the kids have learned a lot and have done a lot to help save our planet.
They’ve made a print of their hand and wrote on it “lend a hand and turn off the lights.” They then went around and posted them by each light switch. They made posters and sent out the nature challenge to all the grade levels from primary to grade 9.
The group also made an environment quilt of drawings from students in all grade levels showing how they could help save the planet or what the community could do. Each child was given a 8×8” square of paper to draw their rough copy. After that was complete they were given the same size quilt square to reproduce their piece to sew together in one big quilt.
I have never seen such a beautiful quilt. The children all came together to make it and stand up for a cause. It now hangs in the school gymnasium, and it’s amazing to see the children come in the gym and go find their square. You can see how proud they are. I thought I would share this idea with you and tell you that you can make a difference in so many ways.
Tags: arts and crafts, environment, ideas, Nature Challenge, quilt, science group, students, team work