Creating a Barn Quilt
Lesson Plan
Name: Kim Soule
School: Drakes Creek Middle School, Bowling Green, KY
Lesson/Unit Title: Creating a Barn Quilt
Lesson/Unit Overview: Students will be exposed to the art of Barn Quilts. We will look
at Quilts and view youtube videos about Barn Quilts. Students will create their own Quilt
Square and then the class will choose the one they would like for the large 4x4 piece.
Students will draw and paint the Barn Quilt.
Grade Level: This lesson can be adapted to many levels. I used it with Middle
School students.
Media Type: Painting
Duration: This lesson can take up to a week to finish. Small groups of students will work
on the quilt during other lessons
Entry Point For Generating Lesson/Unit Ideas: Folk art and Quilts
Artwork/Artists: Google images of Barn Quilts, Southern Living article 2012
Media: Marker/Latex or Acrylic Paint
Subject Matter: non objective (Folk Art Quilts)
Enduring Ideas; Students will understand that art is a part of everyday life and that
they need only look out of the car window to find art in unusual places like the side of a
barn!
Objectives: To expose students to folk art. To understand the connection between Art
and Math in creating the barn quilt. To create leadership roles for students to lead in the
creation of art. To better understand Murals and art that is seen by a community.
Content and Achievement Standards:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/standards.aspx
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Standard 1 - Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
Standard 3 - Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
Standard 6 - Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
Materials: ½ inch Blue foam insulation board (available at Lowes for about $12 per
8x4 Sheet) Latex paint or acrylic paint, brushes, yard sticks, xacto knife.
Procedure:
1. Introduce quilting and folk art.
2. Show youtube of Kentucky Barn Quilts
3. Have students create their own Quilt using markers or crayons and a
coloring page.
4. Have students choose one persons design and that person becomes the leader
in the creation of the barn quilt
5. Leader works with 2 or 3 students to redraw quilt onto the blue Styrofoam
board and label colors.
6. Other students are chosen in small groups (3-4) to paint individual colors.
7. Second and third coats are applied
8. Edges are painted black
9. Pieces are hung in hall
Cross Curriculum Integration: Math