2025 Class S:  Elementary School  ~ JK – Grade 8

Committee:   Susan Lammers (519-343-5973), Lisa Bramhill, Becca Behling, Tiffany Hoelscher, Nicole Crawford

Rules: Please include name of the school on exhibitor’s tag. All grades as of June 2025.

Prizes: ~ 1st – $4.00; 2nd – $3.00; 3rd – $2.00; 4th – $1.00

Junior Kindergarten:

1. Print your name and numbers 1-5
2. Colour a farm related picture from a colouring book
3. Paper plate “community hero” mask – Give each child a paper plate and supplies to create a mask. They can design their masks to represent a community helper (like a firefighter or a nurse). Everyone has a unique and important role to play in our community.
4. Crayon drawing of your family

Senior Kindergarten:

5. Print “It takes a Community”
6. Draw, cut and colour a picture of a heart
7. Paper plate mask – same as above
8. Crayon drawing of your family

Grade 1:

9. Print 5 different occupations in our community
10. Fall leaf community art – Give each child a paper leaf cutout. Have them decorate the leaf with markers, crayons or stickers and then glue to construction paper. Write at the bottom of the leaf how they help in their community. (eg. “I help by being kind” or “I help by picking up garbage”)
11. Farm animal puppets – Using paper bags, art supplies, create their favourite farm animal.
12. Draw a picture of your favourite park and label the playground equipment in English or French

Grade 2:

13. Print the following: 

      It Takes a Community

It takes a town, it takes a street,

It takes the friends we love to meet.

It takes a school, it takes a park,

It takes a light to brighten the dark.

It takes a teacher helping me,

It takes a firefighter brave and free.

It takes a neighbour kind and true,

It takes a builder fixing too.

So, when we work and help and share,

We show each other that we care.

Together strong, both me and you,

It takes a community to make dreams come true.

14. “I help my community” paper hands – Each child can trace their hands and cut them out. Ask them to draw or write two ways they help in their community.  For example, “I help by sharing,” “I help by cleaning up.” They can decorate the hands with any medium.
15. My favourite community place drawing – Draw or colour their favourite place in the community (like the playground, or the library).
16. Teachers art choice

Grade 3:

17. “I help my community poster” – On an 8 ½ x11 white paper, encourage the children to think about how they contribute to the community, some examples are planting flowers, shopping local, enjoying the parks. They can draw, colour, cut and paste, paint etc. 
18. Make a pop-up card – Make a thank you card for a local community helper.
19. Make a little booklet:  theme, It takes a Community – Draw pictures and write about each picture. English or French booklets.
20. Paint a stone for a kindness rock garden. After the fair all stone’s will be placed around our community.

Grade 4:

21. Pencil sketch of the main street in Palmerston
22. Using a computer, List 10 ways that you can make an impact in your community
23. Using pencil crayons draw a sunset over an ocean
24. Sculptural paper art – Create a three-dimensional work of art by cutting, bending, rolling, folding and gluing white paper and mounting onto a black background.

Grade 5:

25. Create a fair scene on the top half of the paper and then recreate it in the bottom half using just the shadows
26. Computer story:  It takes a Community 
27. Create a treasure map of Palmerston with compass directions and landmarks. French or English 
28. Teachers art choice

Grade 6:

29. Puzzle Piece Art – Your art work at the end will look like a puzzle.  Use the theme “It takes a Community” to create a unique puzzle.
30. Charcoal Sketch:  Holding Hands
31. Open art
32. Poem: It takes a Community 

Grades 7 & 8:

33. Picture making – your choice
34. Any computer work or project
35. Using pictures and words show changes people should make or are making for environmental change 
36. Create a comic strip any theme
37. Sketch with pencil – sunglasses/cowboy boots 
38. Draw and colour the flag – free hand
39. Give back to the community – 7 ways you can make Palmerston a better place to live 

10. Life cycle of a plant using a diagram. What does a plant need the grow? add this to your diagram.
11. Scribble Art: Scribble using pencil crayons and create a vegetable garden
12. Draw the same picture four times on one piece of paper with all four of our seasons

Grade 3:

13. Draw a cornstalk using pencil crayons and label the tassel, leaves, roots, ear of the corn, silk, stalk and husk 
14. Draw and label in French two pieces of farm machinery used to grow agriculture crops in this area or draw and label in French different farm animals.
15. Teachers’ art choice 
16. Flower Garden: using plastic forks, dip the fork in paint and press it onto the paper like a stamp. Paint stems and leaves.

Grade 4:

17. The Fall Fair Theme is Sow it, Grow it, Show it. Incorporate the theme in a pencil drawing. 
18. Draw a tree, using pencil crayons. Cut ½ inch strips of construction paper any colour. Wrap the paper strip all the way around your pencil and slide it off, dip the paper quill into glue and glue it to the tree. 
19. Create a scarecrow any medium 
20. Write a poem: Down on the Farm 

Grade 5:

21. Pencil sketch a face of a cow 
22. Create fields of different crops growing using one-point perspective 
23. Students art work 
24. Draw, design a picture of your dream tree house 

Grade 6:

25. Design a farmer’s field with five different crops growing 
26. Illustrate your name-Use any medium showing your creative personality 
27. Teachers Art Choice 
28. Create a computerized poster- promoting the Palmerston Fair 

Grades 7 & 8:

29. Sketch of your shoe 
30. Three styles of Art— divide paper into 3 columns, each form used in the different columns. Realism – art that depicts objects/people in a realistic way. Abstract – art that depicts objects/people in a semi-form creation, Non-Objective – art that does not depict any form, just design and expression. Use your imagination and create a work of art.
31. Students’ art choice 
32. Write about the Fair Theme “Sow it Grow it Show it,” as an article in the local paper 
33. Any projects you would like to share, enter here