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Make a marvellous minibeast masterpiece in our NEW creepy crawlies colouring competition

CLUB challenge

Friday 27th May 2011

Ever walked in the woods
and come across a piece of
outddor art?

Get inspired by nature and
enter our big ARTventure
competition :O) 

 

Your challenge: Enter our national ARTventure competition!

  

leaf swirl

ARTventure

How creative can you be with natural
items?

To enter the competition you'll need to create
a piece of outdoor art. It could be anything from
a pretty leaf circle to a useful scarecrow :O)

 

 
Lots of prizes

Including: trophies

Outdoor art masterclasses, family
passes to sculpture parks and art kits.   

Plus prizes for age category winners and runners-up.

 


Pick an age category

Four to choose from:

  • under 5
  • 5-8
  • 8-11 
  • 11-16

     

     

Get creative

Explore your local wood, park, school grounds or the beach - look for natural materials to make your masterpiece.

Think about:

  • colours
  • textures
  • shapes
  • materials
  • the changing seasons
  • how the weather might enhance your art 

 VisitWoods logo   find a wood to get arty in

 

Enter 

To enter your photograph or video clip of your masterpiece, you need to upload them to the nature detectives ARTventure group on Flickr.

Make sure you include these tags when you upload it:

  • your age
  • your name 
  • your age category

or if your school or group is entering:

  • school/group name
  • post code
  • age category

If you don't tag your photo or video clip with the age category your entry won't be entered into the competition as we won't know which category to put it in.

You'll need a free Flickr account before you can upload your photo (adults can sign in using facebook, Google or Yahoo).

We've put together some simple instructions on how to upload your photo.

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documenthow to upload your photodownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitehow to upload your photo to Flickr

Now you can...

 Enter the competition

   

 

Top tips 

When you're creating outdoor art you get to play in the fresh air and create a cool, natural masterpiece all in one go.

To get started, you just need some ideas and some interesting natural materials.

Mud, leaves, twigs, petals, bark, grass, seeds, stones...you'll never be short of supplies! (You might find some string and scissors helpful too.)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentrot, crumble, fade and tumbledownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiterot, crumble, fade and tumble

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentnature's helperdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitenature's helper

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentinside, outside, up and downdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteinside, outside, up and down

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentperfect patternsdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteperfect patterns

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentinteractive inspirationsdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteinteractive inspirations
 

 

More ideas

Here are two artists who use nature to create their special works of art.

nature detectives wildlife club arrowsee some of Richard Shilling's incredible creations

nature detectives wildlife club arrowsee some of Andy's amazing artwork

 

 
Collect your natural materials

Before you start working on your artwork, collect some natural items to use :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documenttreasure hunt bagdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitecollecting bag template

nature detectives wildlife club arrowwhat did you collect?
 

 

Plan your masterpiece

Plan your work of art and draw it into this landscape. How does it look? :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentlandscapedownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitewoodland landscape

nature detectives wildlife club arrowshow us your landscape
 

  
 

  

Email your stories and photos to get them published on the website:

nature detectives wildlife club arrownaturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk

 
 
 
Entered the art competition?

Stick this caterpillar sticker over the
leaves on your challenge
poster.