09/09/2026
Help your children stand up for peace this year with millions of other people from around the world to take part in this international arts & literacy project: http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/Pinwheels_for_Peace/home.html
Imagine…… colorful pinwheels, decorated with drawings, paintings, collages, photographs with words of peace and harmony written on them.
Join us EVERY year on September 21st, as we create a visual public statement about peace! The hope of the Pinwheels for Peace project is that by having thousands of public visual statements about universal shared feelings about war, tolerance, cooperation, harmony, peace, unity will awaken all people to let them know what students are feeling & thinking.
Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two Art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan in Florida, as a way for students to express their feelings about what’s going on in the world and in their lives. From the first 500,000 Pinwheels in 2005, we have grown to over 4.5 million pinwheels spinning in over 3,500 locations, including the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa & South America.
Imagine…… fields of pinwheels, pinwheels along roadsides, in schoolyards, in parks, pinwheels planted all over Mother Earth! This is the Pinwheels for Peace project!
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 pinwhe...
