Students from Paul Kane High School’s art classes have added a much-needed artistic touch to the building that houses the St. Albert Day Care Society.
Eight art students have created seasonally themed murals, after a need to brighten up the building was brought to the arts program at Paul Kane this past spring.
“There are so many wonderful things that happen within St. Albert Day Care Society’s walls and from the outside it just doesn’t match. We thought it’d be nice to have some brightness, something to make it pop,” explains Adele Burke from the St. Albert Day Care Society.
Burke approached the staff at Paul Kane to see if the school’s art program would be interested in taking on this assignment – which they did with great enthusiasm. The daycare has since received eight murals, which all have a theme of the four seasons. The murals will be hung later this month.
Shortly after, Burke was then approached by the industrial arts program at Paul Kane, which offered to build the daycare some woodworking projects such as: a “mud pie kitchen,” a bird house, a bench, elevated sandboxes, and a dollhouse.
“We’re so excited about it, it’ll really enrich the children’s play experience outside,” says Burke, who says that the day care has had an ongoing relationship with Paul Kane for a while now, which has students that help out at the daycare, and often times host the daycare’s Christmas concert.
“Paul Kane is always so good to us, we’re really lucky.”
The murals will be put on display near the end of the month, and the industrial art projects will be received by the day care in August.
