Grade 4 students from Percy Peglar Elementary went around the community on Friday giving out hearts with messages on them to members of the community.

Some of the messages given out were "I love you", "You are loved" and "You are kind".

Gabe and Noah are two of the students handing out the notes.

Gabe says that the project is to make people happy.

"We are spreading love by giving people hearts with happy messages," he says.

Noah says he has a goal in mind for this project.

"To spread world peace," he says.

Grade 4 teacher Dallas Flynn put the project together for the class and took them around town to hand out the notes.

She says that the inspiration came from a friend who gave her family a challenge called "spread the love".

"They challenged everybody in Okotoks to go out on Saturday and give out love hearts, but because we don't have school Saturday, we decided to go out today," Flynn says.

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