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Elementary School – JK – Grade 8 — Class S

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:

  1. Print “It takes a Community”
  2. Draw, cut and colour a picture of a heart
  3. Paper plate mask – same as above
  4. Crayon drawing of your family

Grade 1:

  1. Print 5 different occupations in our community
  2. 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”)
  3. Farm animal puppets – Using paper bags, art supplies, create their favourite farm animal.
  4. Draw a picture of your favourite park and label the playground equipment in English or French

Grade 2:

  1. 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.

  1. “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.
  2. My favourite community place drawing – Draw or colour their favourite place in the community (like the playground, or the library).
  3. Teachers art choice

Grade 3:

  1. “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. 
  2. Make a pop-up card – Make a thank you card for a local community helper.
  3. Make a little booklet:  theme, It takes a Community – Draw pictures and write about each picture. English or French booklets.
  4. Paint a stone for a kindness rock garden. After the fair all stone’s will be placed around our community.

Grade 4:

  1. Pencil sketch of the main street in Palmerston
  2. Using a computer, List 10 ways that you can make an impact in your community
  3. Using pencil crayons draw a sunset over an ocean
  4. 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:

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

Grade 6:

  1. 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.
  2. Charcoal Sketch:  Holding Hands
  3. Open art
  4. Poem: It takes a Community 

Grades 7 & 8:

  1. Picture making – your choice
  2. Any computer work or project
  3. Using pictures and words show changes people should make or are making for environmental change 
  4. Create a comic strip any theme
  5. Sketch with pencil – sunglasses/cowboy boots 
  6. Draw and colour the flag – free hand
  7. Give back to the community – 7 ways you can make Palmerston a better place to live 
  1. Life cycle of a plant using a diagram. What does a plant need the grow? add this to your diagram.
  2. Scribble Art: Scribble using pencil crayons and create a vegetable garden
  3. Draw the same picture four times on one piece of paper with all four of our seasons

Grade 3:

  1. Draw a cornstalk using pencil crayons and label the tassel, leaves, roots, ear of the corn, silk, stalk and husk 
  2. 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.
  3. Teachers’ art choice 
  4. 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:

  1. The Fall Fair Theme is Sow it, Grow it, Show it. Incorporate the theme in a pencil drawing. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Create a scarecrow any medium 
  4. Write a poem: Down on the Farm 

Grade 5:

  1. Pencil sketch a face of a cow 
  2. Create fields of different crops growing using one-point perspective 
  3. Students art work 
  4. Draw, design a picture of your dream tree house 

Grade 6:

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

Grades 7 & 8:

  1. Sketch of your shoe 
  2. 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.
  3. Students’ art choice 
  4. Write about the Fair Theme “Sow it Grow it Show it,” as an article in the local paper 
  5. Any projects you would like to share, enter here 

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