Free Global Summer Art-Social Studies Project

A great art/social studies project to occupy the next few weeks of summer for children of all ages is offered online at http://www.togetherinpeace.com/. The Ontario, Canada based site is sponsoring a global community project that looks to the children of the world to join together in an expression of world peace. Talk about a free enrichment project.

On their site they say, "We invite children the world over to participate in the creation of an enormous global peace puzzle.
Like a puzzle, we too are all interconnected, and like a puzzle we are not complete if even one piece is missing.
Let your painting add your country to the display. "

They display on the site some of wonderful early submissions from children in South America, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Worth a stop by the site just to spend some time with your child looking at those submissions and locating the country of their origin on the globe.

The concept is a natural starting point for a variety of discussions on history, geography, theology, economics, anthropology, etc., for any age of child. So get your child out from in front of the T.V. this afternoon and take a look at http://www.inpeacetogether.com/.

Participating in the project is easy: produce a piece of art (they do ask for certain dimensions on the site), take a digital picture and email it to them at inpeace@inpeacetogether.com. There is also a snail mail option. Submission deadlines are July 10, 2009.

Construction (July 20) of all the pieces of this enormous puzzle will be video taped and run on u-tube.

They are still asking for submissions. Obviously, the more countries represented the better and if you know kids in countries other than your own, who might be interested get the info to them asap.

The following piece by Robert Fulghum is included on their site as a wonderful whimsical plan to bring world peace. "Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination."
~Robert Fulghum

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