Evelyn Kirby, 3, expresses joy in her accomplishment of putting painted fish cutouts onto a painting of the ocean with speech-language pathologist Laurie Mack, left, of Northeast Hearing and Speech Center, and University of Southern Maine art education student Jacklyn Peters at Children's Odyssey, a pre-school in Portland on Thursday. Gordon Chibroski/Staff Photographer

Tess Bigelow, 4, explores a wrist band made by art students from the University of Southern Maine to help young children explore textures and colors and use their dexterity at Children's Odyssey pre-school in Portland on Thursday. Gordon Chibroski/Staff Photographer