Central’s library is exhibiting coloring pages with different encouragement terms colored by students to create a display for others.
These coloring pages were made and colored on Nov. 6 when many students were left feeling uncertain. Jennifer Kawecki, one of the librarians at Central, thought about the students and came up with the idea the morning after the election.
Kawecki carefully picked out the words and the other librarian at Central, Beth Wilson, was the one with the idea of putting the words on the window. “We wanted to remind everyone that the library was a place of comfort and a place where everyone was accepted, no matter what their beliefs,” Kawecki said.
The words picked out by Kawecki were library, escape, love, community and care. The library relates to all those words.
“We thought, it might be a way for them to kind of process or escape. So, we just got the crayons and let everybody color who wanted to,” she said.
Junior Dannie Worsley colored multiple coloring pages to be on display. Worsley is a usual attendee of the library because of their study hall during third block on A days and found coloring with crayons to be fun once again. Worsley had their own understanding of what the purpose for the coloring pages was.
“It was to encourage people that saw it and I like helping people out, no matter what,” Worsley said.
Senior Kaitlyn Abboud, another student who participated in coloring a coloring page to be on display, attends the library for her study hall during second block on B days. She is someone who loves to color and would color again in the library.
“It was really nice to have something to do that wasn’t work or social media. Last year I used to color in study hall all the time, so it kind of brought me back and it was really nice,” Abboud said.
The library still has many words left to be colored and crayons to be used. Kawecki and Wilson encourage students to write any encouraging message or draw any additional pictures.
“I want students to know this is a place they can go where people care about them. We’re a safe place,” Kawecki said.
