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Inspire your students’ creativity with some friendly
competition—participate in an art contest this
year! From artist trading card competitions to
digital storytelling challenges, these companies
have created contests that reward outstanding
artwork with great prizes. Incorporate these con-
tests into your curriculum and get your students’
work noticed!
Crayola’s Children’s Art Exhibition
Is Going GREEN!
Crayola, LLC
Challenge your
students to show
how environmen-
tally conscien-
tious they are
by entering the
2008–2009 Cray-
ola Children’s Art Exhibition. This year’s
theme, “Green—Earth’s Favorite Color,”
gives students in grades K– 6 a chance to
voice their concerns about the planet and
how to improve it. Submit high-resolution
photos of your students’ artwork online,
along with a written statement of each
student’s interpretation of the artwork. Up
to ten submissions from each grade will be
chosen for publication in a special
coffee table book and to win
cash prizes. All artwork submit-
ted will be on exhibit at Cray-
ola.com. For contest details visit
www.crayola.com/artexpo.
Circle No. 241 on Reader‘s Service Card
Blick® Art Materials 2009 Linoleum
Block Print Contest
Blick Art Materials
Teachers win certificates for art supplies in
three grade divisions: 4–6, 7–9, and 10–12.
First prize in each division is $400, second
is $250, and third is $150. Students win
walnut-mounted plaques. Homeschoolers
welcome. Every school is eligible to win
Blick’s 906 Model II etching press
in our Grand Prize Drawing.
Deadline March 15, 2009. Visit
Dickblick.com for contest rules.
Circle No. 164 on Reader‘s Service Card
Davis Digital Storytelling Challenge
Davis Publications, Inc.
Showcase the twenty-first-century learning happening in your
classroom . . . enter your
students in the second
annual Davis Digital
Storytelling Challenge!
Digital storytelling is
the art of using digital
content to create short
and compelling narra-
tive movies, and can be
used to integrate subject
matter and skills from
many areas of the curriculum.
For guidelines, tips, and submission information, please go to dsc.digication.
com/digitalstorytelling. Winners
receive cash prizes of $500, $300,
and $100, and will have their entries posted online.
