Our Town’s Wrapping Paper Contest is Back
Upper East Side kids are invited to submit their drawings into Our Town’s Wrapping Paper Contest. The winner will have their design turned into wrapping paper and will take home a $50 prize.
| 21 Nov 2023 | 11:03
Jazmine, last year’s Wrapping Paper Contest winner, drawing a whimsical scene of the North Pole. Photo provided.
Our Town’s Wrapping Paper Contest is now underway. Back for its second year thanks to sponsor East Midtown Partnership, the contest invites neighborhood kids to draw and design their own wrapping paper. Six semi-finalists will be chosen and featured in Our Town, and one winner will have their design printed as wrapping paper in the Dec. 21 edition of Our Town. The winner will also receive a $50 prize.
Kids should design their wrapping paper on letter-sized paper (8.5 by 11 inches) using crayon, pencils, markers or paint. Bold, bright colors work best. Art created using a computer or store-bought stamps or stencils will not be accepted. However, artists make and use their own stencils and stamps from potatoes, sponges, or erasers.
A panel of judges will pick six semi-finalists, whose designs will be featured in the paper this December. Then, Our Town’s readers will vote online to choose the winning design.
The design with the most votes will be tiled across two pages in the December 17 edition to be used as wrapping paper for the thousands of Upper East Side readers who receive Our Town each week.
To submit artwork into the contest, all entries need to be dropped off to our sponsor, East Midtown Partnership, at 875 3rd Ave. before Friday, Dec. 8. The child’s name, school and age must be printed on the back of the design, along with a phone number to contact the child’s parents in case the design wins.