“I wish that my mom did not lose her things.”

“I wish that I had a dog like Halo.”

“I wish for a dinosaur.”

“I wish for no more cutting down trees.”

“I wish to be a scuba diver.”

“I wish that bears do not go extinct.”

“I wish that everyone would stop throwing trash all over the world.”

“I wish for all the children everywhere to come to my house.”

“I wish for no more global warming, give the world a break.”

“I wish for a hermit crab.”

“I wish to go to space and rule another planet.”

The wishes of young children are limited only by, well, not really by anything it seems.

This is something that Kirstin Kunhardt, an art docent at Margaret Mead Elementary School, learned recently.

Kunhardt was the driving force behind the “Wish Flag” project at the Sammamish school, which saw almost a hundred young students write, scribble and draw their wishes, such as those listed above, on colorful flags.

Based on the concept of the Tibetan Prayer Flag, the Wish Flags not only described hopes that are global and far-reaching, the project itself stretches across the world. It was the brainchild of English artist Marie Laywine, who first introduced the Wish Flag concept to two schools in Dorset, in south of England.

Through Kunhardt, a friend and colleague of Laywine, an intercontinental partnership was formed.

The children in England will be displaying their Wish Flags from May 21 – June 1, outside an abbey built in the 14th century.

On Tuesday morning, Kunhardt and some helpers hung the flags next to Sammamish City Hall, a colorful blaze against a grey sky that morning.

The flags will stay up for one week, and were a feature at the Sammamish Farmer’s Market which opened on Wednesday.

As well as the whimsical, (“I wish I could be invisible and have a dog” — “I wish for roller coaster tycoon”), a number of the wishes expressed the deepest fears of their young authors. One flag was raised, written by a young student wishing for a cure for their mom’s MS.