{"id":17500,"date":"2025-12-01T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/?p=17500"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:20:05","slug":"2025-national-tree-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/2025-national-tree-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahaina students design Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s ornaments for National Christmas Tree display in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

LAHAINA \u2014<\/em> Students from Princess N\u0101hi\u02bbena\u02bbena Elementary School are bringing the aloha spirit to the nation\u2019s capital this holiday season. Young artists in grades K\u20135 will have their hand-drawn ornament designs on display at the 2025 National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each ornament reflects the students\u2019 creativity and connection to Hawaiian culture, featuring local themes such as native plants and animals, hula, surfing, the shaka, \u02bbukulele and Lahaina town. The school was selected to represent Hawai\u02bbi as part of the annual program, which showcases student-designed ornaments from all U.S. states and territories. View the ornament designs in detail here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are incredibly honored to have our students\u2019 artwork displayed on a national stage,\u201d N\u0101hi\u02bbena\u02bbena Principal Ian Haskins said. \u201cTheir ornaments capture the essence of our islands and the resilience and pride of our Lahaina community. This experience helps our students see how their voices and creativity can reach far beyond our islands and bring aloha to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning with the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony<\/a> on Dec. 4, the ornaments will be displayed throughout the holiday season at President\u2019s Park, where millions of visitors in person and online will have a chance to admire the students\u2019 work.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LAHAINA \u2014 Students from Princess N\u0101hi\u02bbena\u02bbena Elementary School are bringing the aloha spirit to the nation\u2019s capital this holiday season. Young artists in grades K\u20135 will have their hand-drawn ornament designs on display at the 2025 National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Each ornament reflects the students\u2019 creativity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"856,888,893,1022,1619,1622","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-12-01-PNES-Ornaments-01-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Derek Inoshita","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/author\/derek-inoshitak12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":358,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":358,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-11 10:57:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}