Crafted with love: Milwaukee community creates special quilts for Penfield Children's Center kids

Milwaukee community creates special quilts for Penfield Children`s Center kids

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- It's the perfect gift on this bitterly cold day. Boxes filled with hand crafted gifts of love made their way through the halls of Penfield Children's Center before they were wrapped around the little bodies of their new owners.

"It really warms my heart and makes me feel like all of the effort has been really well appreciated," said Shannon Molter, with the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Penfield Children's Center is an early intervention services program for children that might have a developmental delay or disability.

It teamed up with the Milwaukee Art Museum which made beautiful quilts for the children.

"The kids today, they were just blown away by it. It's so cool. The time is perfect, it's very chilly outside so it's nice to work together with such a great partner like the art museum," said Jason Parry, Vice President of Development and Communication at Penfield Children's Center.

All of the squares on the quilts were created with care by families visiting the Kohl's Art Generation Studio at the museum.

"We did really think very hard about how to make them something special and unique that kids would want to hold onto. That they would keep, that they would place with," said

Then the hundreds of squares were sewn together to make 31 special quilts for the children.

"After all of the hours of decorating our squares, we spent many more hours in the studio sort of turning it into a sewing workshop putting together each of those squares one at a time," said Molter.

After receiving their quilts the children were also invited to do some arts and crafts where they made some fun hats and also drew on their squares.

"Art is an opportunity for children to learn in a really active way and an exploratory way," said Molter.

Inspiring and touching young lives through the beauty of art.

For more information on upcoming events at the Kohl's Art Generation Studio at the Milwaukee Art Museum, CLICK HERE.