Have you noticed the sea of beautiful pinwheels at Laurelhurst Elementary School? If not, hurry over as we've heard they will be taken down in the next day or so.
Every student at Laurelhurst Elementary School made one yesterday joining a worldwide movement for world peace called International Day of Peace, celebrated yearly on September 21st.
Pinwheels for Peace, as the celebration is called, is in conjunction with International Day of Peace, and is an event in which students worldwide make their own pinwheels in the name of peace.
The Pinwheels for Peace website says ""We estimate that there were 3 million pinwheels spinning on September 21st, 2009, in countries around the world!"
"Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two Art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan, who teach at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, Florida, as a way for their students to express their feelings about what’s going on in the world and in their lives. The project was quickly embraced by their students and the entire school community and by millions of art teachers, teachers, parents, children and adults who desire peace in our world.
The first Pinwheels for Peace were installed on Sept. 21, 2005. Since then, we have grown from 500,000 pinwheels planted the first year, to 2 million pinwheels in 2008!" the Pinwheels for Peace website says.
"A pinwheel is a childhood symbol – it reminds us of a time when things were simple, joyful, peaceful.
Imagine… millions of pinwheels spinning in the wind – pinwheels in the United States, Great Britain, South America, Australia, the Middle East, Canada, Africa, Europe and Asia; pinwheels all over the world! – big pinwheels, small pinwheels; pinwheels of all shapes and sizes – colorful pinwheels, decorated with drawings, paintings, collages, photographs – pinwheels with words of peace and harmony written on them – fields of pinwheels, pinwheels along roadsides, in schoolyards, in parks, pinwheels EVERYWHERE!
This is the Pinwheels for Peace project!"
Thanks Laurelhurst Elementary for a beautiful project that the neighborhood can also enjoy.
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