The turquoise backpack with flowers and a pink owl is jammed full with long-sleeved shirts, jammies, socks, underwear, a unicorn stuffie, and one slightly-used sketchpad. She’s packed and ready to go.

Jessenia Coolong hugs the creatures she inspired from a drawing that Allie Osman made then sewed together as part of a project between the Crocker Farm kindergarteners and the high school students in ...