🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🧠 Pre-Writing Skills — Drawing, tracing, and mark-making with a variety of tools develops the grip strength, pencil control, and visual-motor precision that handwriting requires — making craft time genuine writing preparation.
• 🖐️ Fine Motor Skills — Cutting, gluing, folding, and manipulating craft materials directly exercises the small hand muscles and finger precision required for handwriting and other fine-detail tasks.
• 🎨 Creativity & Self-Expression — Making freely chosen creative decisions — which colors, shapes, and materials to use — develops a child's personal artistic voice and the confidence to express original ideas across all areas of life.
• 🌈 Color & Pattern Recognition — Selecting, mixing, and arranging colors and patterns sharpens visual discrimination — the ability to notice subtle differences — which transfers directly to letter and number recognition in early literacy and math.

This preschool family quilt wall hanging is a great way to celebrate your family and your family history. It's easy to make because you use pre-made canvas squares with grommets in the corners to tie it together. No is sewing involved in making this preschool family quilt wall hanging.

Materials You Will Need

Pre-made canvas squares with grommets in each corner
(Oriental Trading Company is a great source for this)
Ribbon or yarn ties
Fabric Pens
A rod long enough to hang your quilt from
Curved curtain rod holder

How to Make it

Step1: Decide what your quilt will be about.
As a family, create a plan for your quilt. What will it represent? Will you commemorate family events? Will you create squares telling facts about your family such as your culture or ancestry? 

Step 2: Decide how your quilt will look.
There is an endless number of things you can do here. You can draw pictures and write information with fabric pens. You can trace family handprints and/or footprints. 

If you have a printer that will make iron-on transfers and digital photographs, you can iron family photos onto the canvas. Alternatively, you can make picture pockets from clear vinyl or cover photos which clear Contact Paper and glue them onto the quilt.

You can make decorations with puffy paint or any kind of fabric paint.You can use glitter, sequins, and buttons, anything you like; the combinations are infinite.

Step 3: Plan how the squares will be organized.
When all the squares are finished, lay them out on a big surface such as your floor and decide how they will be arranged. If you have some blank squares, include them. They can be removed and decorated at a later time.

Step 4: Put the quilt together. 
Tie the squares together by putting the ribbon or yarn through the grommets of adjoining squares and tying them firmly.

Step 5: Hanging the quilt.
Ideally, the ribbons along the top should be cut long enough to also go around your rod after they have been used to tie the squares together. To be sure of this, measure the circumference of your rod before you cut the ribbon and compensate for the additional length needed. You also need to put ribbons through the outside top holes of the top squares to attach it to the rod. Hang your curtain rod holder on the wall and place the rod in it.

A Good Place to Buy the Matrials for this Craft

Oriental Trading Company is an excellent source of craft supplies. Not only do they sell fabric paints and fabric markers, they sell a wide variety of craft supplies including a kit with white canvas squares that tie together. The kit includes 24 8-inch by 8-inch squares and 96 pieces of 12-inch ribbon in assorted colors.The curtain rod is not included.  You will find craft supplies for almost any type of craft your preschooler would like to make at Oriental Trading Company.

Other Ways to Use these quilts

These quilts make great gifts for relatives such as grandparents, especially those who live far away.

You can also have each child make a quilt of his/her own, adding to it as they grow and reach landmarks in their lives.