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[Title] => Monster Madness 2025
[Description] => Get arty with Monster Madness, a fun and creative activity for your club!
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[Age] => Ideal For 4-12
[Intro] =>
Monster Madness invites your club to get creative with this national drawing contest, plus you could win $1,000 for your club!
Open to extended day programs and elementary schools, Monster Madness is a fun and easy activity guaranteed to engage your children as they draw any kind of monster or creature.
Your children could draw:
👹A made-up monster
🐉A legendary beast
🐦🔥A mythical creature
👽An alien
🦄An animal mash-up
From the weird and wonderful to magical and wild, your children will LOVE this opportunity to explore their imaginations!
Drawings will be showcased in a special Monster Madness book series. These will be in vivid full color with fun, informative pages. One drawing from each book will be chosen to feature on the front cover, winning the artist a goody bag packed with creative supplies.
You can copy or download as many entry forms as you need.
Monster Madness is free to enter, so get your club involved today!
[Rules] =>
- Entries MUST be scanned for upload/email or posted. We cannot accept photos of entries.
- Only one entry per child, there is no limit to the number of entries per club. Club leaders please submit your entries all together where possible.
- Elementary schools can enter without an after school club.
- Ask your children to draw their picture, ensuring their name, age and club name are included. (Entries can be submitted with first names only or initials if needed.)
- Your children's entries must be on a Monster Madness entry form.
- Your children's drawings must be their own work!
- Your children can use pencils, pens, felt-tips, crayons, paints, chalks, pastels, etc. to create their picture.
- Ideal for 4-12 year-olds
- US entrants only
- Free to enter
- Copyright remains with the artist
[School Prizes] =>
🏆 The club that sends the best set of drawings will win an amazing $1,000 gift certificate of their choice!
PLUS clubs receive a complimentary copy of the book their children's work features in.
[Student Prizes] => Our favorite Monster Madness drawing will become the book's title and front cover. The artist will also receive a creative goody bag!
PLUS a strip of stickers for every entrant. Children whose artwork we'd love to publish will also receive a certificate!
(Image for illustration purposes only. Club and children winners will be chosen from entries received in Nov-Dec 2025.)
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[Opens] => 2025-11-03
[Closes] => 2026-01-09
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[How to Enter] => We're looking forward to seeing your children's artwork!
[Winners Subheading] => We're delighted to announce the winners...
[Winners Intro] =>
Thank you to everyone who took part & congratulations to all the Monster Madness winners!
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[Independent Intro] =>
Monster Madness invites your child to get creative with this national drawing contest.
Your child could draw:
👹A made-up monster
🐉A legendary beast
🐦🔥A mythical creature
👽An alien
🦄An animal mash-up
From the weird and wonderful to magical and wild, they will LOVE this opportunity to explore their imaginations!
Drawings will be showcased in a special Monster Madness book series. These will be in vivid full color with fun, informative pages. One drawing from each book will be chosen to feature on the front cover, winning the artist a goody bag packed with creative supplies.
Monster Madness is free to enter and a fantastic outlet for creativity, so get your child involved today!
How To Enter
1. Download the entry form below and print out.
2. Your child can get drawing!
3. Email a scan of your child's entry along with their name and full address to: [email protected] or upload here. (Please don't email photos, we need a scan or the original!)
Or post your child's entry along with their, name and full address to:
Young Artists Monster Madness
77 Walnut Street
Unit 11
Peabody MA 01960
Closing Date: Dec 19, 2025
[Independent Rules] =>
- Only one entry per child.
- Ask your children to draw their picture, ensuring their name, age and address are included.
- Your child's entry must be on a Monster Madness entry form.
- Your child's drawing must be their own work!
- Your child can use pencils, pens, felt-tips, crayons, paints, chalks, pastels, etc. to create their picture.
- Open to 4-12 year-olds
- US entrants only
- Free to enter
- Copyright remains with the artist
[Independent Prizes] =>
Our favorite Monster Madness drawing will become the book's title and front cover. The artist will also receive a creative goody bag!
PLUS a strip of stickers for every entrant. Children whose artwork we'd love to publish will also receive a certificate!
(Image for illustration purposes only. Club and children winners will be chosen from entries received in Nov-Dec 2025. Independent entrants are eligible to win.)
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[Letters Sent Date] => 2026-02-20
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