Crafty kids at Van Schaick learn to knit

Fingers were flying in Ms. Burgess-Bradt's multiage classroom in early December as her students, with the help of Barbara Hildrith, former Harmony Hill School principal, learned to knit.

Hildrith, who owns BeauKnits, Ltd., a yarn store in Cohoes, visited Van Schaick Grade School a few times to help students learn to "finger knit," or to knit without using traditional needles.

Students were knitting long yarn chains, which some said they planned to use as belts and others said they were going to use as Christmas gifts.