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Wheels of Wonder

Published April 21, 2008

See the winning entries

It may have been a gloomy weekend, but our mailbox has been exploding with color as kids from throughout the area sent us their best work for this year's Our Kids: Our Business coloring contest.

As always, the winners were selected by a volunteer panel of S-R staffers, and with so many fantastic entries, it's difficult to choose only nine winners. We tend to look for creativity and overall execution, but recognize that a different group might have selected different winners.

In the 4-and-under category, the judges liked Isabel Niles' watercolor, Jacob Ulch's cereal snowstorm and Seth Caven's Jackson-Pollack-like marker explosion.

A trio of 7-year-olds took the 5-8 category: Mikayla James' collage of photos of children, Aubree Osier's tidy marker-and-glitter pinwheel, and Natalie Donohue's composition, which showed an interesting use of scale.

In the 9-12 group, Makayla Wisner used torn paper scraps to fill in her pinwheel, J.J. Juviler created a yarn pinwheel over a multicolor background, and Hannah Chapman-Dutton used a variety of materials to create a shiny spring scene.

All of the entries we received are on display at Mobius Kids, except for a group of entries from Atlas Elementary School in Hayden, which KSPS-TV will use on the set of a public forum that will air Tuesday at 8 p.m.

As was noted previously, entries cannot be returned, but parents are welcome to stop by Mobius, in the lower level of River Park Square, to pick up their child's masterpiece.

Thanks again to all our young artists for sharing your work, and look for our next coloring contest this Halloween.

– Ken Paulman, features editor