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These amazing entries are being brought to life by local artist Ali Harwood, who will create a design on large canvasses to be exhibited around the city.

A child's drawing of people and a rainbow with the words My New Family
Aged 9 - My new family

A collage of children's art work of trees and flowers
Age 7

A child's drawing of a super hero and the words super sam
Age 9 - “My drawing shows that people in school are there for me”

A child's painting of sunflowers
Age 7

STAND BY ME acrostic poem - aged 14
Aged 14 - STAND BY ME acrostic poem

Silhouette painting with the words I love you in sky made by birds flying
Age 9 - "This is me and my brother and I will not trade him for anything"

A child's drawing of them with their nan
Age 3

Childs drawing of hearts and nan
Age 7 - “This is me and nana who loved me so much”

Childs drawing of two girls in colourful dresses surrounded by positive words
Aged 9

Collage of childrens artwork
Aged 9

A colourful drawing by a child aged 13
Aged 13

A child's painting of two people holding hands
A 3 year old with her nursery teacher who is "always kind to me, I love her." She has also drawn a red and yellow flower for Mrs T. She has her green check school dress on and green bows in her hair and Mrs T always wears a black top and leggings with trainers and wears her hair in a long ponytail.

Childs collage artwork with the word People who are there for me
Aged 10

Childs drawing of their foster family
Aged 10

Childs painting of their foster family
This is the entry from E age 2. She has drawn herself with a blue summer dress and matching bobbles in her hair, she also wanted to draw myself Shirley in an orange dress and my husband Keith wearing his Liverpool FC Football Kit. E said she likes living with us because we look after her and her sister and have fun.

Childs painting of two girls and a boy
This is a second entry from E age 3. She has drawn herself in a purple dress with purple bows in her hair. She picked a purple triangle as it is her favourite colour. She has drawn her sister who is wearing a pink dress and bows as that is her favourite colour. She has also drawn her Foster Carer Keith she said she did red rectangles for his Liverpool football kit. They are all waving LFC flags when Liverpool won the FA Cup as we all watched and cheered for Liverpool to win. E said she wanted to paint the liver bird bit it was too hard for her to do.

A child's painting of a sunset
Age 9 - “This is me and my big brother and best friend Joel. I can do anything with Joel next to me”

Childs painting of a cat at night
Aged 10

Childs painting of the moon outside a window
Aged 10

Childs pen drawing of foster family
Aged 12