12x12 Paper Tutorial on How to Fold to Quilt

Learn to fold a quilt using a piece of paper.

If you are trying to teach children how to fold a quilt, you can use a 12-by-12-inch piece of scrap paper to do it. After practicing with paper folding, your children can pair up and practice folding a real quilt. Provide several sheets of 12-by-12-inch paper so the children can have a new sheet if they make a mistake folding the "quilt" the first time.

Things You'll Need

• 12-by-12-inch pieces of paper

Instructions

1. Place the 12-by-12-inch piece of paper on a flat surface.

2. Fold the right corner up to the middle so that it forms a triangle. Fold up the left corner to the middle so that it forms a triangle and meets the edge of the right fold. Your paper now will have a point on the bottom.

3. Fold the bottom tip up to match the top border of the paper. You now will have your triangle pointing up. The tip of the triangle will touch the top border of the paper.

4. Turn the paper vertically. Fold up, creasing into thirds. You are left with a neatly folded quilt.

5. Transfer this paper-based lesson to a real quilt. Ask your children to help each other fold a square quilt of any size by working together and implementing the folding techniques they have learned by folding paper.