The City of Brighton is once again participating in the annual Arbor Day Fifth Grade Poster Contest, an artistic competition for public, private and home-schooled fifth graders across the state. This year’s theme is Healthy Trees, Healthy Communities. This is an opportunity for students to show how healthy trees help people, animals and neighborhoods thrive. The contest is statewide but will also be held at the city level in Brighton. The winner of each Brighton school will move on to the state contest and their posters will be put on display at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
1st Place
Student: The winning student will be introduced to Brighton City Council at City Hall. They will also receive passes to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, as well as passes to the Butterfly Pavilion and a free tree.
Teacher: The teacher of the winning student will be offered a free tree.*
Class: All students in the winning class will receive a tree seedling.**
School: Arbor Day will be celebrated at the school with the winning entry, where the winning class gets to help plant a tree for their school in late April.
2nd Place
Student: The second-place prize includes passes Denver Museum of Nature and Science as well as a free tree.
Submission requirements:
One entry per student
Must be an original artwork created by a fifth-grade student
Entries should be done on 12-inch x 18-inch paper (or as close as possible to those measurements)
The poster must relate to the contest theme, “Healthy Trees, Healthy Communities” must be on the poster, and all words must be legible and spelled correctly
Entries may be done in marker, crayon, paint pens, watercolor, ink, acrylic, colored pencil, and/or tempera paint
Entries must be done on paper, which allows for duplication, display, and framing
CLEARLY print or type the following on the back of the poster: Student’s full name, grade, school, teacher’s name, phone number and email and parent or guardian’s contact information.
Please avoid rolling up artwork.
Not accepted:
Collages - please do not glue anything onto your poster
Computer or photo-generated art and printing
Matted, mounted, laminated, framed, or folded entries
Names of commercial products, companies, and/or organizations
Artwork completed by more than one artist
Entries become the property of the Colorado Tree Coalition and may not be returned. All posters must be received by the city by Friday, March 6.
*We will do our best to accommodate tree species preference, but options may be limited due to varying supply. Trees are in containers and roughly 5-8 feet tall.
**Seedlings should be available on the day of the Arbor Day celebration, but due to weather and other variables, they could be delayed.
For more information or to submit an entry, please contact Eric Jasuka, City of Brighton Forester, at ejaskuta@brightonco.gov or 303-655-2116