A Special Christmas Gift

In trying to come up with something different as a Christmas gift for Grace's teacher, I came up with the idea of making her a "quilt". I discussed my idea with the other parents in her class, and they all agreed that it was a good idea. My idea was to have each of the kids in the class draw her a picture, and I would then sew them all together, and make a "quilt". I use this term very loosely as I have never made a quilt before, and there is no batting or anything of the sort in this one, but it is patched together to at least look like one...

I spoke with the art teacher and she was more than happy to create a curriculum for this and had each of the kids draw a picture on the squares that I had cut up. I also included a picture of the class in the middle. It turned out better than I had expected, and she seemed to like it. The lunch aide said that Mrs. Ellis got teary eyed when she opened it.

Grace's is the one on the left, second row up. It is a picture of Mrs. Ellis teaching a couple of children how to write an uppercase letter A.

She stopped by my office a little later and told me how surprised she was. She said that she always knew when the kids were up to something, but this time she had absolutely no idea.