Contests

Art Contest: Your Best Halloween Art

Reading this month’s spooky Cricket got everybuggy in just the right mood for a spine-tingling night of Halloween trick-or-treating. Sluggo even felt inspired to plan a hybrid costume. (He’s going as a baseball-playing snail! Surprise!) Pudding suggested that spooky pictures from Cricket readers would be perfect for decorating the clubhouse for the Halloween party. So for this month’s contest, everybuggy wants to see your best work of Halloween art.

Will you draw a scene full of ghosts, goblins, and witches? Perhaps your specialty is haunted houses or graveyards? Maybe you’ll paint kids enjoying a night of trick-or-treating, or even create your own hybrid Halloween costumes (please label them, if you do). Your art might even celebrate the Day of the Dead.

Whatever you choose, everybuggy will be haunting the Cricket Country mailbox with knees—if they have them—trembling, waiting to enjoy your best spooky, beautiful, or just plain fun, Halloween art. Boo!

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    1. Your contest entry must be your very own original work. Ideas and words should not be copied.
    2. If you're 14 years old or younger, your entry must be signed by your parent or guardian, saying it is your own original work, that no help was given, and granting Cricket permission to publish prizewinning entries in the January 2015 issue or on our Web site. If you're older than 14, you must sign your own work, verifying that it is original.
    3. Be sure to include your name, age, and full address on your entry.
    4. Only one entry per person, please.
    5. If you want your work returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for each entry.
    6. Incomplete entries cannot be considered. Your entry will be incomplete if you forget to include your age or a signature verifying that your work is original.
    7. Your entry must be received by October 25, 2014.
    8. Send entries to:
      Cricket League
      P.O. Box 300
      Peru, IL 61354