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Your response to the Scholastic/Warm Up America! Learn to Knit program was overwhelming and unfortunately supplies have run out. Orders for the free student kits—all 40,000—were received in less than two weeks.

While there are no more free kits available, we hope that you will still download the Learn to Knit lesson plans and poster at this web site and be able to secure the necessary yarn and needle supplies locally to conduct a Learn to Knit program. In addition, we encourage your students to enter the “Hold That Stitch Essay Contest,” which is open to any student in grades 8-12 and to start a Warm Up America! project at your school, a wonderful community service opportunity.

We also invite you to visit our special teachers’ web site, which is rich in content to assist you in organizing knitting or crocheting classes. There are interviews with teachers who have run successful programs at all grade levels and in after-school programs, along with links to how tos and FAQs, additional project ideas and even helpful Spanish translations for common knitting terms and links to Spanish- and French-language patterns.

Based on the enthusiastic teacher response to this year’s program, we hope to work with Scholastic again next year on a similar project. Thank you for your interest.

Sincerely,
Mary Colucci
Warm Up America! Foundation

Learn more about teaching at www.teachknitandcrochet.org