• Crazy Quilt Poems

Read the poems on this page.
Which one do you like the best?  Why?
Try to write a poem about a quilt in one of the American Quilts books or about a quilt you have seen.

• Create a paper quilt block.  Write a story to go with your quilt block.

• Make some homemade bread.  Use honey or maple syrup for sweetener.

• Make homemade butter.  (Put cream in a baby food jar.  Do not fill it all the way. Shake it until it is solid.)

• Dried Apples on a String  (When people did not have refrigerators, they had to preserve their food in other ways.)

Cut out the entire core of a red delicious apple.  Slice the apple crosswise to make rings.  Hang the slices on a string to dry.  For a quick snack, pull a dried apple from the string.
 
• Interview three different people who witnessed the same specific event (fire, snowstorm, parade, ball game, etc.)  Did they tell you the same exact information?  Try to figure out what actually happened.  Discuss different perspectives and how history decides what really happened.

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