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Prizes to be Won!

 

Three grade-group winners (grades four to six, seven to nine and 10 to 12) will be selected. Each grade-group winner will receive a $1,000 savings plan provided by Investment Planning Counsel - The Weichel Team.

 

Other prizes include:

  • STAEDTLER Mars products for classroom use
  • a complete set of fishing gear from Lucky Strike Bait Works.


In addition, an overall winner will be chosen and will receive a four day fishing excursion courtesy of Red Pine Wilderness Lodge (Lady Evelyn Lake) a one day fishing trip with Canadian Sportfishing Television Show host Italo Labignan, and a Canadian Sportfishing Jacket and Hat.


This fall is your chance to show off your artistic talents, and learn about Ontario's native fish and their habitats!

 

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, along with its corporate sponsors, will hold its 7th Annual Kids’ Fish Art Contest from October 1 to December 18, 2009, when our contest species will be the rainbow trout and the lake whitefish. The winning design will be used for the 2010 Young Angler's Licence.

 

The 2009 contest entry form will be available starting October 1, 2009.

 

 

Atlantic salmon and channel catfish were the official fish of the 2008 contest. Our judges were looking for artwork that depicted these fish in their natural habitat. The winning design appears on the 2009 Young Angler's Licence.  

 

Have a look at the winning entries from the 6th Annual Kids' Fish Art Contest!

 

 

  

Contest Rules 

 

 

The Kids' Fish Art Contest is open to all students who live in Ontario and are between grades four and 12.

 

Here is what you need to know: 

  • Entries will be judged on the quality of the artwork and artistic interpretation.
  • All artwork must be the contestant's original, hand-done creation. Photographs, tracings, computer-generated artwork and freehand copies of other people's work will not knowingly be accepted.  We are interested in your artistic interpretation of the fish in its habitat.
  • All artwork must be horizontal, 8.5" by 11", without a mat, frame, cover sheet or border.
  • Art techniques may include scratch-board, pointillism, acrylics, oil, dry brush, watercolour, pencil crayon, crosshatch, collage, linoleum printing or crayon. Artwork must not exceed 1/4" in total thickness.
  • Please - no lettering, signatures or initials on the front of the design. Any artwork with such markings will be disqualified.
  • Only one entry per student will be accepted.
  • Entries must be postmarked no later than December 18, 2009.

 

This is what you need to include: 

  • a completed entry form (Download Contest Entry Form, PDF, 125 kb -- NOTE:  For best results we recommend that you save the entry form to your own computer before printing it.) 
  • the artwork
  • a one-page essay about your fish (rainbow trout or lake whitefish), its habitat, and how to protect it for future generations.  Please include your name and address on your essay.

 

If submitted artwork does not meet these requirements, it will not be considered.

 

Starting on October 1, 2009, you can mail your entries to:

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Kids' Fish Art Contest
Fish and Wildlife Branch
P.O. Box 7000, 300 Water Street
Peterborough ON    K9J 8M5
Attn: Jeff Standaert    (e-mail: jeff.standaert@Ontario.ca)