Children, 12 and under, can participate in the New York Times Kids Draw the News. The program focuses mostly on assignments related to New York area news. Children submit digital or scanned drawings that depict current events or mail drawings to The Times. Topics such as taxes on sugary drinks, canal cleanup, a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls, and the stealing of manhole covers are given for artistic assignments. To find current assignments, go to: City Room, Kids Draw the News.
If your school is not in the New York City region, you may want to create your own news challenges based on current events in your town, your state, or the world. These, of course, wouldn’t be submitted to The Times, but some are sure to be published in local papers. Even if you don’t want to send the drawings to the media, your students can learn a great deal about a topic as they decide how to best capture it in a picture.
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