Art competition Subjects Art and design ICT Resources: Internet access, scanner Summary Students ask their e-link partners to draw a picture.  The pictures are put on a web page and your students vote for the best one.  You can send prizes to the children in your partner school. What to do 1) Get every student in your class (class A) to draw or paint a picture.  You can choose a theme and decide on what materials your students use. 2) Upload your pictures to a website.  Mark each picture with a number representing the child who produced it.  Then send the URL to your partner school (school B).  Please contact us if you have any difficulty producing a web page.  3) Children in  school B each choose a picture they like and write an e-mail to the artist of that picture.  The e-mail should include: A self-introduction Comments and questions on the picture 4) Children in your class should reply promptly. The reply should include the following: A self-introduction Instructions on what the student in school B should draw 5) Once School B has posted the pictures on a website linked to the e-link site (see example) get your students to judge the pictures.  Send the winners some prizes.  The prizes don't have to be expensive, try and send something that they can't get in their own country.   Variations There are many different art-based activities that you can use to liven up the link with your partner schools. Take a look at Shisei junior high's homepage for an excellent example of a drawing activity for language learning. Swapasaurs is a project for primary school age children being run by the British council in Australia.  Children  draw a picture of an imaginary dinosaur and then send written descriptions of the dinosaur to children in a partner school.  The site has worksheets and links to help you complete the project.  Click here to return to the projects contents page