For Remembrance Day students collected sticks, painted them, and an SA assembled them into a wreath. The kids enjoyed painting the sticks and the finished product, but the concept of Remembrance Day was difficult for many of them to grasp. On the other end of this, there was one girl who was crying as someone in her family had been in a previous war. A previous writing book activity that asked the kids to draw something they were thankful for had mixed results. Many could come up with something they were thankful for but naturally these were personalized selections including parents, siblings and material belongings/activities (for example birthdays or presents).
A few memorable examples:
“I’m thankful for canes.”
“I’m thankful for volcanoes.”
“I like firework parties.”
These activities make explicit the different stages each child is in: some children could produce something they were thankful for while others drew something they liked. The individual activity each student did was poppies on a black background. 
They could place one to three poppies on their black backgrounds (one student did four) with the poppies having a big red circle with a small red circle and a black center. The green stems were all the same material but the red circles were either tissue paper or crêpe paper and the black centers were buttons or velcro stickers. This activity showed how much prep can be involved in some art activities: the red circles were cut out in advance, the stems were cut in advance, and the black centers were purchased in advance.
The background papers also required prep as they were taped to the tables with painters tape (in order to get the white boarders) and then textured (by the students) with plastic bags which another teacher brought in. 
The results are appealing to the eye, and nicely decorated part of the gymnasium for the Remembrance Day assembly, but made evident the different types of art in the kindergarten classroom. This activity had an obvious outcome in mind and was presented to the children as such. I am curious what would have been the outcome if the children were given a little more free range on their poppy art. Despite the structure of the activity, the children still enjoyed completing this art project.