The Penland School of Crafts Community Collaboration program provides experiential art education to 500 Mitchell County students each year. In February, making and using moon journals helps every third grade student understand astronomy. Students make meaningful connections with the world around them through artistic expression. Not only do they fold, bind, paint, illustrate, and write in their handmade journals, but they also record scientific observations about the moon each night for an entire lunar period. Here students create cover artwork based on a personal experience of nighttime where they live.