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Mural Addition
Preschool children at the Children At Rectory Program visited the Connecticut Audubon Society at Pomfret to watch muralist Amy Bartlett Wright add a cricket to the mural. Photo courtesy of Maria Carpenter.
POMFRET --- With the money raised from their Earth Day Art Show last April, the preschool children at the Children At Rectory Program thought the best place for the fruits of their Earth Day labor would be the Connecticut Audubon Center at Pomfret.
CARe Director Erin Hayden said the students visited the new grassland center on Day Road to watch artist Amy Bartlett Wright paint a cricket on the Grassland mural. The addition of the cricket was made possible by a donation from the CARe children after their Earth Day Art Show.
The Earth Day Art Show featured nature-inspired artwork from both the toddler and preschool classrooms in a variety of mediums.
Hayden said the children chose to donate their earnings to the Pomfret Audubon after two educational visits to the program earlier in the year.
When the children visited Nov. 28, Wright talked with the children about her ideas when creating the grassland mural, the colors that she would use to paint the cricket, and the other animals that lived in the grassland habitat, that were being added to the mural that day. After being inspired by the artists work, the children returned to their preschool classroom and painted their own animal murals.