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Gov Doc Kids Group Constitution Day Poster Design Contest

Grab your colored pencils, markers, crayons, finger paints or watercolors and design a handmade poster showing how you and your family benefit from the freedoms embodied in the U.S. Constitution.

  • Use an 8 ½" x 11" paper to create your design
  • Your poster can feature any aspect of the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights & other Amendments
  • Make it colorful! Be creative!

Questions about the Constitution?

Directions

You may apply online, by filling out the information below or by downloading a pdf of the form and returning it to Martha Childers, Johnson County Public Library, 9875 W. 87th St., Overland Park, KS 66212.

All physical entries become the property of Gov Doc Kids Group and cannot be returned. The entries and their underlying design may be used by Gov Doc Kids Group, its sponsors, collaborators, and assigns at the sole discretion of Gov Doc Kids Group.

Selection Criteria: Content relevant to constitution 33%, artistic design 66% (original, colorful, transfers well to poster).

News Flash: The first 100 entries will receive a free pocket size guide to the constitution entitled The U.S. Constitution & Fascinating Facts About It (courtesy of ConstitutionFacts.com).

Benefits
Please tell us how you and your family benefit from the Constitution:
If you prepared your explanation of how the Constitution benefits you and your family in a separate document, you may submit your entry by uploading your document. Allowed extensions: doc,odt,pdf,xls,rtf,txt Maximum Filesize: 524288 bytes
Upload a file
Name
Age
Grade
Address
City
State
Zip Code
Phone Number
E-mail
School
School District
Teacher or Parent Name
Submit your poster electronically as a jepg, pdf, png or tif file format. Be sure that the file is less then 5MB.
Submit your poster

Sponsored by: the Gov Doc Kids Group: Kansas Government Documents Roundtable, Johnson County (KS) Library, Muskingum University, Visiting Librarian Service (OH), National Archives at Kansas City, Wichita State University, Kansas State Library, State Library of Ohio, Government Documents Round Table of Ohio, Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), a division of the American Library Association.

National corporate sponsors: ConstitutionFacts.com, Naperville, IL; Mannington Mills, Salem, N.J. | Government Partner: Defense Commissary Agency