District kindness poster contest underway to highlight National Bullying Prevention month
(10/30/2020) As a part of October’s National Bullying Prevention campaign, Anoka-Hennepin is excited to participate in the 16th annual kindness poster contest.
The district invited students at all grade-levels to submit their best artwork for the competition. Each elementary and middle school will select one winning poster for each grade-level, K-8, and each high school will select one winning poster from grades 9-12 to advance to the district-level judging contest.
What is kindness? Kindness is a positive call to action to counteract the negative impact of bullying, and Anoka-Hennepin’s core values of respect, responsibility, appreciation of diversity, integrity and compassion are the basis of kindness.
This year’s kindness poster theme is: Don’t Mask Kindness!, and those words must be on the poster. All participants will help create and spread kindness in their school through this competition.
The district winners will be recognized at a future School Board meeting and will receive a Kindle tablet from the Horace Mann Company. Winning posters will also be posted on the district website and printed for use in schools.
Poster specifics
In addition to needing the words Don’t Mask Kindness! on the poster, posters must be on 11” x 17” paper. Lightweight paper, if used, should be mounted on tag board. The student’s name, grade, and school must be on the back of the poster.
Crayons, felt tip pens, markers, paint, pen and ink, pencil, etc., may be used to create the poster, but do not use photographs or Xerox copies. Do not use wood, plastic, glass, metal, string, fabric, felt, collage materials, stencils, internet downloads, or computer art.
Posters cannot include copyrighted characters from comics, cartoons, television programs, movies, newspapers, magazines, etc.