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With crayons and paste close at hand, students at Ryerson School are illustrating their ideas of what it means to be Canadian in a big way.

The kids at the kindergarten to Grade 6 school in Fort Richmond are creating a float that will have a little piece of each of them integrated into it for the Pembina Trails School Division Canada 150 Project.

The division-wide initiative to acknowledge the 150th anniversary of Confederation will take over Investors Group Field on May 24 with a performance from a 2,250-piece student band, speeches from Lieutenant Governor Janice Filmon and activist Michael Champagne, and 35 floats created by students from each school.

Student Adebare Adegbosin’s thumbprint will form part of a collage of prints that will fill one of a dozen paper tracings of students at Ryerson. The cutouts will be pasted inside a giant “hamster ball” that will roll into Investors Group Field on Wednesday.