Students at work on Monday, May 15 for annual Project Linus. (Courtesy/Christy Bening)

On January 15, 2018, Columbus Academy held its annual Project Linus event for the seventh year. Project Linus is a national organization that sends handmade blankets to children who have experienced trauma or loss. This event is held countrywide, yet anyone can donate a blanket to this non-profit. 

At CA, students work together to make squares that are combined to form blankets. Approximately 45 students show up each year. 

No strict goal of blankets is set, for the organizers are happy with whatever is made. 

Each blanket needs 15 colored squares to be formed completely. The students’ work is then pulled together at a huge work day in May, when volunteers assemble squares into a quilts. These skilled sewers examine every inch of the blanket to guarantee the quilt is correctly put together.

Academy sends some of its blankets to local children’s hospitals and homeless shelters, although blankets are also sent to a variety of other charities.