Contests

Art Contest: Faraway Places

Whether you’re traveling to faraway times, like Eddy in “The Traveler,” or to faraway places, like Et-El in “Out-of-Sight in the Buraydah,” whether you’re on a quest for knowledge, like Prince Ranbir, or simply have a zest for adventure, visiting exotic people and places can be a life-changing experience. Wherever you go, you’ll marvel at different customs and landscapes and become friends with different kinds of people. You might even become a little different yourself.

For this month’s contest, we’d like you to draw yourself exploring a faraway place or time. Will you travel in your imagination to a cool, real place you’ve always wanted to see? Or to a fantasy world? Is the place you visit lush and beautiful or filled with harsh and forbidding landscapes? How are the inhabitants of this land like or unlike you? Do they dress differently? Have surprising customs? Where and how do they live?

It’s all up to you and your artistic imagination. Just send us your best drawing--only one, please--of yourself in a faraway place or time. Everybuggy will be traveling first class to the Cricket Country mailbox to behold your travel adventure.

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    1. Your contest entry must be your very own original work. Ideas and words should not be copied.
    2. If you're 14 years old or younger, your entry must be signed by your parent or guardian, saying it is your own original work, that no help was given, and granting Cricket permission to publish prizewinning entries in the April 2010 issue or on our Web site. If you're older than 14, you must sign your own work, verifying that it is original.
    3. Be sure to include your name, age, and full address on your entry.
    4. Only one entry per person, please.
    5. If you want your work returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for each entry.
    6. Incomplete entries cannot be considered. Your entry will be incomplete if you forget to include your age or a signature verifying that your work is original.
    7. Your entry must be received by January 25, 2010.
    8. Send entries to:
      Cricket League
      P.O. Box 300
      Peru, IL 61354