Multicultural Quilt

Exposing children to multiple cultures is an important aspect of any child’s life.  An exciting activity that allows for each child to highlight what is important from his or her culture is creating a square for a class Multicultural Quilt.  Each child will choose a custom or family tradition they wish to illustrate and describe on a square.  When all the children have completed their quilt piece, I will place the squares together to form our Multicultural Quilt, which reflects our class composition!

I chose to illustrate a birthday cake, which depicts my family tradition that on our birthday we place the knife into the cake upside down and the next family member whose birthday it is pulls the knife out so our wish comes true!