Students in Clearview Elementary’s summer program were inspired by Clearview Forest to create wearable art projects.

Learning about nature and going for a walk along the forest paths, the students gathered up interestingly shaped leaves, brought them back to their classroom, and used them to design t-shirts by making leaf rubbings with fabric crayons.

After retired art teacher and classroom volunteer Kathy Gerdts-Senger ironed the designs to set them into the fabric, the students wrote ‘Clearview Forest’ across the fronts of the shirts in freehand or with stencils.

Educators at Clearview are pleased the restoration of Clearview Forest has continued to progress. It’s become a valuable educational resource, which has been the school’s goal from the beginning of the project. Clearview has been working with the DNR to restore the 42-acre forest for the past few years.