If you’re looking for a way to involve your young children in Earth Day that doesn’t involve wearing rain boots or digging in the mud, Greeblemonkey has come up with the perfect way: Kid Art Auction 2008. The best thing about her idea is you don’t have to be a blogger or a grown-up to participate. The best thing about it for me is it involves the making of artwork which has Nathan’s name written all over it and allows me a few hours to put my feet up and read a book.
All proceeds raised will benefit We Can Solve It, a project from the Alliance for Climate Protection. Here’s how it works:
———- FOR PARENTS ———-
1. Have your little artist (aged 17 or younger) draw, paint, scribble… whatever… a masterpiece no larger than 24″ big. Or take from their stock, seeing as we all have stacks and stacks of their artwork sitting around, right? Please be careful about what artwork you pick though - do not reveal anything too private! This *is* the online world, after all! You do not have to be a blogger to participate! Come one, come all!
2. Have your kid(s) agree to donate their artwork to the first ever Kids Art Auction for Earth Day.
3. By participating, you agree to incur the shipping costs of your kid’s artwork to whomever “wins” their piece. To keep this cost reasonable, the auction is restricted to North America.
4. Take a nice, clear digital photo of the piece you are donating.
5. Make sure you are a Flickr member (it’s free!), and then join the Kids Art Auction for Earth Day 2008 Group.
6. Add the photo of your child’s artwork to the Kids Art Auction for Earth Day 2008 pool.
7. Once the bidding closes (April 22nd, 2008), ship the art to the winner!
———- FOR BIDDERS ———-
1. Visit the Kids Art Auction for Earth Day 2008 pool and peruse the masterpieces from all the kids participating.
2. Bidding starts at $5.00 for every work of art.
3. Make comments on each piece of art’s Flickr page to place your bids.
4. Closing date and time for the auction is 9pm Mountain time, Tuesday April 22, 2008 (Earth Day!).
5. After the closing time, I will go through the Flickr pool and finalize the winning bids.
6. Winners will be notified via Flickr mail! So please be a member of Flickr!
7. Once you know you are a winner, please make a donation in the winning amount to: THE WE CAN SOLVE IT PROJECT. All donations are tax deductible.
8. Once you have confirmation of your donation, copy and paste it into a Flickr mail to the parent of the artist (deleting any confidential information, of course!) and the parent will view that as a receipt for the donation. Let’s all play nice here - OK? No cheating. This will be totally fun for the kids and it’s for charity, right?
9. Include your shipping information in the Flickr mail, and the parent will then ship (via the cheapest mail delivery option) your won artwork to you!
———- FOR BLOGGERS ———-
1. If you are a parent, have your kid(s) participate!
2. Either way, spread the word! Visit Greeblemonkey to pick up the beautiful badge designed by Declan. Link back to her post for the rules! Go forth and prosper!
Keira, Madigan, and Rowan will be donating their masterpieces this week. We’ve bought our canvases and they’ve sketched out their ideas, led by The High School Art Teacher. It’s a good thing we have our own little edge in the family because I’ve visited the artwork already entered, and the competition is STIFF!
Here’s to the Power of the Blogosphere!