Addison Sandlin plants a flower Friday as part of a Cotton Alley container garden art class. Athens Arts League operates Cotton Alley and High Cotton Arts in collaboration with H.C. Blake Co.

For the class, children decorated flower containers and planted flowers that volunteers attached to decorated pallets in Cotton Alley, which is a lot behind High Cotton Arts.

The project gave the children an opportunity to create artwork by decorating their pots, to learn about gardening by planting flowers in their pots, and to beautify a Downtown Athens lot.

Volunteers operated the class with Thursday’s instructor Athens Arts League Board member Diane Lehr, and Friday’s instructor Taylor Reeder from the Limestone County Extension System. Athens Utilities, Athens Gas, Lowe’s in Athens and the Limestone County Extension System supported Athens Arts League with the project.