When the National Christmas Tree is lit in Washington D.C.
this year, you can be sure that some Quincy Elementary School students will be
watching. That’s because an ornament
they made will be hanging on the Kansas Christmas tree, one of 50 such state
trees that will surround the much larger national tree.
Anita Wolgast from the North Topeka Arts District, NOTO, showed
students in the Quincy Elementary Visual Arts Learning Academy how to weave
wheat into tree ornaments. She explained to the students how
wheat is made into flour and flour into bread and that Kansas is known as the
wheat state. The students are making
wheat woven hearts, wreaths and circles topped by wheat heads of Kansas grown
wheat. The finished ornament will be decorated
with a ribbon and bow and soon will be hanging from the tree that will
represent Kansas for the holiday season in the nation’s capital.
