The Chattanooga Times Free Press wants you to enter our 2014 Wrapping Paper Design Contest. Contest co-sponsors are ArtsBuild, Chattanooga’s Kids on the Block and Creative Discovery Museum. Callan Williams from Thrasher Elementary School won last year’s Wrapping Paper Contest with a winter design of penguins and snowmen.
The Rules
- Who can enter: Any elementary school student in grades 1-5.
- Deadline: Entries must be received by 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21.
- Grand prize: A special arts package from sponsors, $25 and your holiday design printed as wrapping paper along with your picture in the Dec. 7 news-paper. The winner will be contacted by Tuesday, Nov. 25.
- Entry format: Use an 8 1/2- by 11-inch piece of unlined paper. One entry per child. Entry should have the child’s name, age, address, telephone number, grade and school printed on the back. (Teacher’s name is helpful.)
- Mail or hand-deliver entry to: Wrapping Paper Contest, Times Free Press, 400 E. 11th St., Chattanooga, TN 37403.
- For more information: Call Lin C. Parker at 423-757-6282 or email her at lparker@timesfreepress.com.
Helpful hints
- Be original and have fun.
- Use bright colors.
- Fill the entire page.
- Choose paint, crayon, chalk, markers or pens, construction paper or other creative materials.
- Remember: Your design will be repeated to make a real sheet of wrapping paper.