This week’s edition of Make It a Splendid Week features artwork and a piece of creative writing celebrating the United States of America! We hope you have a great week and a safe holiday weekend! Make It A Splendid Week!

4th of July

Last night I saw the fireworks
from my window.
They were pink and green and
pretty blue.
They looked like big sparkles in
the sky.
Today I’m wearing my 4^th of July
dress.
I’m coloring a flag with red, white,
and blue.

-Alicia, age 6

This entry is a part of our series “Make it a Splendid Week”! Follow along weekly to enjoy excerpts from The Splendid Review, an anthology of poems, short stories and autobiographies written by talented young writers engaged in the Periwinkle Arts In Medicine Program at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers.