ResourcesStudents Design ‘Pinwheels for Peace’
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Several schools throughout APS participated in the 4th Annual Pinwheels for Peace celebration, including Kenton, Laredo and Lansing elementary schools, Aurora Frontier K-8, and South Middle School.
Two high school art teachers in Florida started the yearly celebration as a way for students to express their creativity and make a public visual statement that expresses their feelings about peace. As part of the celebration, students designed and decorated their own pinwheels and wrote about what peace means to them. They then displayed their artistic designs in front of their schools.
“This artistic celebration is not political. Peace doesn’t necessarily have to be associated with the conflict of war; it can be related to violence and intolerance in our daily lives, to peace of mind. To each student, peace can take on a different meaning, but, in the end, it all comes down to a simple definition: a state of calm and serenity, with no anxiety, the absence of violence, freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people. This project allows students to creatively express their own definition of peace.”
- Laurie Foster
Kenton Elementary Art Teacher
International Peace Day took place September 21, and various APS schools displayed their pinwheels on Friday September 19th and Monday September 22nd.
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Pinwheels for Peace at Aurora Frontier K-8
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