National Contests for Kids & their Families

We receive word of some wonderful national contests...so we thought we'd share these with you! Please click on each link for more details about each contest, and who is eligible to enter. Good luck!

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1. Valentine's Day Contest, from Care.com/New Line Cinema & Warner Bros. Pictures’ film "Valentine’s Day." Deadline: February 13, 2010.

One lucky Grand Prize winner will receive a trip for two to Los Angeles, including round-trip airfare, a two-night hotel stay at the luxury SLS Hotel (in Beverly Hills) with dinner for two at SLS’s Bazaar restaurant and a private VIP tour of the Warner Bros. Studio lot, where "Valentine’s Day" was filmed. Twelve finalists will each receive two tickets to see the film. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Care.com will also provide the winners with a free one-month premium membership to find that perfect babysitter.

Click here to enter, and tell us your most romantic or funniest Valentine’s Day memory. All entries should be rated PG. The twelve finalists will be selected during the months of January and February 2010. One Grand Prize Winner will be selected from among the 12 finalists in February. Three Finalists will be selected by a panel of judges on or around each of the following dates: January 23, 2010, January 30, 2010, February 6, 2010, and February 13, 2010. One Grand Prize Winner will be selected from among the 12 Finalists on or around February 13, 2010.


2. No Name-Calling Week 2010 Creative Expression Contest, from GLSEN Education Department. Deadline: February 26, 2010.

No Name-Calling Week (January 25 - 29, 2010) is a week of educational and art activities aimed at stopping name-calling and bullying in schools. The Creative Expression Contest is an opportunity for students to submit essays, poetry, music, original artwork, or other pieces that convey their experiences and feelings about name-calling, and their ideas for putting a stop to verbal bullying in their schools and communities. This year, we have added a new High School category to the contest for short-film submissions that focus on anti-LGBT name-calling and bullying in school. The goal is to have students working on their art pieces during the week as a way to learn about and deal with name-calling and bullying.

There are three entry categories: The contest is divided into three different judging categories. It is open to all individual students in grades K - 12.

To learn more & enter this contest, Click here.


3. Doodle 4 Google, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would...", from Google Registration Deadline: March 17, 2010; Entry Deadline: March 31, 2010.

Doodle 4 Google is a competition where K-12 students are invited to work their artistic will upon Google's homepage logo. At Google, they believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year they're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would..."

To learn more & enter this contest, Click here.