Explorify art competition
Explorify Start with Art Competition
The Explorify Art Competition invites children to create their own Start With Art artwork. You could draw or paint a picture, make a model or a sculpture, create a collage, design a print, take a photograph… whatever you choose!
You might seek inspiration from one of our featured Start With Art artists (but note that your entries do need to be original, rather than copies of existing works of art). Or perhaps you’ve learned about the style and work of a particular artist, or have explored new skills in art such as water-colour or hand building with clay. Here’s a purposeful opportunity for you to put those skills into practice!
Can you find a way to show their science learning through your art? Can you create something that will spark a conversation about science among other children that look at it?
The winning works of art will each be made into a new Start With Art activity that will be published on the Explorify site, ready to be used by more than 100,000 teachers with their classes of children in schools around the world.
The activities made from last year's winners were 'What is changing?' and 'Ocean habitat'.
The winners will also receive a £50 book token!
There are two age categories:
- 7 and under (at the start of the Autumn term 2024),
- 8 (at the start of the Autumn term 2024) to 12 (at the end of the summer term 2025).
How to get started and take part
1. The aim is to create art with a link to science. Remember, the ‘start’ in Start With Art refers to starting a discussion or starting to use art as a way into science.
2. Get creative! Remember, the idea is to create a discussion starter. The science connection doesn’t need to be ridiculously easy to guess. Your creations should be thought-provoking and original. A sculpture of a super hero squashing an iron bar, for instance, might prompt a discussion about which materials can be squashed, and whether metal is ever squashable.
3. Whatever you create, you should be able to explain the science learning that is ‘hidden’ in your artwork. Competition entries must be accompanied by a short paragraph (up to 150 words) that explains the science behind the artwork.
Your entries need to be brought into school by Friday 21st of March to be considered for the competition. Any entries brought in after this date will still be featured on our website, but won’t be considered for the Explorify competition.
The teachers will choose 3 entries per age group per school to submit to the Explorify competition but we will celebrate all the children’s works of art by creating an art gallery and feature them in an exhibition, either in school or on the school website!
If you want to find out any more information on the competition, visit these links:
An example Start with Art activity with explanations
This year's entries!
