Photo courtesy of Katy Thompson.
Students from Katy Thompson’s eighth-grade visual arts class hold up the hand-knit caps they made for Children’s Hospital patients.
Visual Arts students at Chelsea Middle School worked to give back.
The eighth-graders in Katy Thompson’s visual arts class recently learned about the history of weaving and learned to create hats using a round loom.
Rather than keep the caps for themselves, however, the class donated the hats to Children’s Hospital.
The week before Christmas, Thompson gathered the caps and donated 55 hand-knit hats to Children’s. The hats ranged in size from newborn to young adult.
Thompson said she hopes to make this activity an annual event with her students.
– Submitted by Katy Thompson.