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There was a rainbow of ways kids
could make colorful art Wednesday
when the Color the Creek street art
festival hosted its annual Youth Day
in heart of downtown Battle Creek.
Teri Carlson took her three grand-
children to the event under sunny
skies for the second consecutive
year.
“They love the spray painting,” she
said. “And, we’re going to do some
chalk and then we’re going to do the
tee-shirts. It’s a good way to spend
the day with the kids out in the yard.
They love it.”
It’s was the ninth consecutive year
of Color the Creek, an public art
event created by Justin Andert who
also remains the primary coordinator,
though he has a team of artists who
help.
“It’s always awesome to see people
celebrating young people wanting to
try new activities,” said Andert dur-
ing the event at Mill Race Park. “So

Spray paint, tie-dye, crayons, chalk and more draw kids into art downtown

Professional artist Jaziel Pugh helps a youngster learn to spray paint a mural

in downtown Battle Creek Aug. 14 during Color the Creek Youth Day. (Shopper

News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

Elisha Mayes of Plumeria Botanical Boutique leads youngsters in a flower

dying activity in which they pound flower pedals onto canvas bags. (Shopper

News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

it’s fun for Color the Creek to hope-

fully provide some new art activities

that they won’t get at school or any

other place like that. So that’s one

of the things we strive for when we

do these big events. And then just to

have it here right in downtown, and

hopefully have people see an awe-

some bustling city when you drive

by and see all these people in the

park on a nice summer day. So that’s

one of the awesome parts of it for

me, too.”

Kids could learn from profes-

sional mural artists like Jaziel Pugh

and Brandon Redman how to make

pictures using spray paint while also

helping to paint the big flowers onto

the “The Creek” installation that

remains in the park.

They made colorful dots on small,

canvas bags by smashing flowers

provided by Plumeria Botanical

Boutique. They made tie-dye tee

shirts with New Union Market,

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