DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Thanksgiving Day Quilt Paper Craft

This is a great cut and paste paper craft project for decorating a wall or bulletin board during Thanksgiving. There's also an autumn paper quilt which you can make as well or can use to mix and match pieces.

This turns out to be quite a large project (about 25 inches x 25 inches) and there are lots of templates to print.

Note:  If you'd like a smaller project (both in size and time) do a 4 square quilt instead of a 9 square quilt:  only print templates 1, 2, 4 and 5.

Alternatively, you might like to have a group of children each make a quilt piece or two and then assembling everyone's pieces into one quilt.

Materials:

• paper,
• printer,
• something to color with
• scissors,
• glue
• Optional:  orange, yellow or red construction paper

Instructions:

• Optional:  This is optional, but I really like to include it as part of the craft if I'm making the 9 square quilt.
  • Print the "Top Border Template" in either color or B&W.  This is the bit that says HAPPY THANKSGIVING along the top.
  • Color the template pieces if using B&W.
  • Cut out the template pieces.
  • Assemble the pieces to make a strip about 20 inches long and 3 inches tall.
• Print templates 1 to 9 to make a 9 square quilt
   
  OR print templates 1, 2, 4 and 5 if you're making a 4 square quilt.
• Color each template piece if using B&W
  • this can be done as a group project with each child completing a square and then assembling it as a group.
• Cut out the template pieces.
• Apply glue to the gray parts of the template and assemble (you can look at the image at the top of this page to see what piece goes where)  After assembling, there should be no gray left showing.
• Optional:  I was torn whether to add this as the project is already quite time consuming.  It's up to you whether you want to do it!
  • Glue 4 inch wide strips of construction paper all around the outside of your project to form a border.  Use scissors to cut a slight wave in this border so it looks like a quilt.
     
    OR.
  • Print 3 copies of the fringe template for a 9 square quilt or 2 copies for a 4 square quilt.  Cut out the pieces and glue them around the outside of the quilt as a border, overlapping the pieces slightly so there are no gaps.

Craft Templates:

• Close template window when done printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Quilt Top Template               color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 1       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 2       color   or    B&W 

Quilt Square Template 3       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 4       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 5       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 6       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 7       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 8       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 9       color   or    B&W

Optional Fringe Template       color   or    B&W

Printable version of these instructions

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