Alzada school students and teachers create holiday blankets for veterans

In the spirit of giving back this holiday season, students and teachers at Alzada School have been hard at work crafting fleece blankets to show appreciation for the men and women who have served our country. For Christmas this year, the school community embarked on a project to create warm, handmade blankets for the residents of the VA Nursing Home at Fort Meade in Sturgis, South Dakota.

The students used two creative methods to make the blankets: knotting and braiding. With each blanket, they combined two pieces of soft fleece fabric, cutting the material into strips, and either tying or bra...