STYROFOAM QUILT

7th/8th Grade

Making our classroom quilt was a great experience in working with unusual materials and also incorporating math skills. We each started with a 9"-square section in construction paper and some students took it further than the 9-square...dividing it into even smaller sections. Each stryofoam square was cut into 10" squares allowing for the 9" design and 1/2" border.

After designing our square in paper and discussing the square as a whole with fractional parts, we transferred the design onto our styrofoam board. We cut out our section paper patterns and cut our material to fit slightly larger than the colored section. We also left room for a common border around the edge of our squares. We used small kitchen paring knives to poke the materials into the styrofoam. No gluing was required if the material was poked gently and evenly into the foam.

Below you can see how the styrofoam was handled and material was attached. You can also see our finished project which turned into a fabulous sculptural relief quilt. By the way...remember what you are seeing here has NO GLUE holding it together!