Season Quilting
Though this was my idea (not fitting well with my unschooling values) Ceiba has taken her own little spin to this year long project, she is the designer, part seamstress, and bilingual writer of our Four Seasons Quilt. We began in winter and here is part of the process.
Using fabric pastels we found at the local Free Store. She phonetically spelled first and is copying from a piece of paper.
The most exiting part of this project has been spending time in nature and the elements to get a Feel for the season, lots of observation, reflection on our daily experiences. We also spent a lot of time reading books about snow, this one is one of my favorites. It helped Ceiba see the amazing world of nature close up, and we learned some cool facts, lots of information in the book for adults, but the images and captions are phenomenal. She particularly liked counting hexagon snow crystals and was amazed at their perfection. We learned lots about hexagons and symmetry, how snow is formed, what temperature and weather factors affect the shape and design and lots more. It was fantastic.
One of the most amazing days we had this winter was going outside on a very cold day after rain, and seeing a thin ice sheet on salal berry leaves, we figured out that we could peel the thin ice sheet and find a perfect print of the leaf on the ice, which made an suculent crunchy cold snack. We spend almost an hour carefully peeling off “Salal Leaf Ice Chips”.
Next: Spring! First day today!