Cuadros- Art Work from Women of Peru

         Guest Blogger -- Judi Odmark

          Judi's 3rd graders use a basal reader from Scholastic  LITERACY PLACE.

    
  If you look closely at the cover you will notice beautiful artwork.

    The artwork is actually a piece of hand-sewing called a cuadros.  Each color is a different patch of material or stitches in a variety of colors of thread.  Now you look at it from a different perspective.   The women in Peru make and sell the cuadros.  
    This is the story selection.

    A wonderful woman named Sister Theresa would come to school and help out in the 3rd grade working with the students during Reading.  She read the story selection in the basal reading book.  One of her friends named Barbara went to Peru to help local women become self-sufficient. 

  
       These are the cuadros that Sister Theresa gave to the teachers at St. Michael School.

This is a close up detail section.  You can see the different kinds of cloth used.

I love the snake and the flowers.

Each person has their own instrument.

The woman on the left is holding a woven basket.

      

   

  

    These hand made examples of the cuadros really make the story selection come alive for our 3rd graders.    

     Thank you Sister Theresa.  And many thanks to your friend Barbara, too.
    
          I hope my pictures do justice to the beautiful needle work these women of Peru have done.

Please leave a comment.  I enjoy hearing from people who read my blog.

Box for Boarders

 Monday Made it
  

Guest Blogger - Barb Schuelke is my Zumba buddy.        

             Each year we take down our bulletin boards for the summer and put away all those boarder strips.  Most of the time, we just want to put everything away and just be done for the summer.  August comes and the bulletin boards need boarders again.  Usually we can't remember which boarder in in which box.  Barb came up with a great idea.  She cut a short piece of each boarder and taped them onto the lids of the boxes that hold all her boarders. This way Barb knows where to find each boarder very quickly.

 

As you can see, Barb has quite a boarder collection.  If you look at the top box in the above picture, you will see a small section of the flag boarder. In the picture below you can see the flag boarder.

  

How do you store your bulletin board strips? 

       

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 Please leave a comment if you could use Barb's idea.