Deadline nears on Holiday Wrapping Paper Design Contest

photo Callan Williams won the 2013 Chattanooga Times Free Press Wrapping Paper Design Contest with this design.
photo Callan Williams, a second-grader at Thrasher Elementary School, won the 2013 Chattanooga Times Free Press Wrapping Paper Design Contest.

If you haven't grabbed your crayons, markers or colored pencils yet, go find them, the deadline for the Times Free Press' Holiday Wrapping Paper Design Contest is coming up.

Entries must be received by Friday.

But the effort is worth it because the winning design will run in the Times Free Press on Dec. 7 as a real piece of wrapping paper. And, during December, Chattanooga's Kids on the Block will offer it as a choice in its gift-wrapping booths at Hamilton Place. Think about it, your design may be covering hundreds of presents under the tree on Christmas morning.

The winner also gets a prize pack from ArtsBuild and $25. And the Top Ten finalists will have their designs hung in a special exhibit at the Creative Discovery Museum in December.

For rules and information on where to send your entry, go to timesfreepress.com/giftwrap, or call 423-757-6282.

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