Calling children artists to participate in a patriotic art contest.

Enjoy your summer, while you create a piece of art for the FLAGS Across The Nation, Patriotic Art Contest.

Children, grades 1to 6 wanted to enter our contest. There is still time. The deadline is August 1. Show your love for the United States of America. Submit your colorful red, white and blue drawings or paintings to FLAGS.

Your winning art will be featured on our website and enjoyed by 1,000’s of active duty military, veterans and patriotic Americans. After the contest, all art will be sent to our deployed troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Pick up that pen or pencil and create your magnificent piece of art. Every 1st thru 6th grade artist to submit an entry will receive a mini American Flag!

Our troops love to see drawings of American flags, children saluting the flag, themes of freedom and anything that has red, white and blue.

If you want to add a few words of appreciation or patriotism to your drawing, go ahead and do that. It will be valued.

Enjoy your patriotic summer of fun!

Patches Kids – has joined Flags Across The Nation in Promoting Patriotism through the Arts, offering support for our troops and their children.

Patches the Bear is a promoting the Flags Across The Nation Flags of Freedom 7th Annual Art Contest! He’s asking children across the nation to create red, white, and blue artwork to enter in the contest. Winners will be announced on 9/11 and a special patriotic quilt will be created from the winning art. And this year a miniature quilt will be made just for Patches the Bear.
For more information about Patches the Bear and his new project Pennies for Patches visit the site PatchesKids.org.

The deadline for art submissions is drawing near. If you have yet sent in your art do it today!

GRADES 1 – 6
Teachers, Leaders and Parents – enter CHILDRENS art!
(PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAROCHIAL, HOME SCHOOLS and SCOUTS in the USA)

Help spread the love of the USA and support for our troops.

Create and Share your patriotic art images with FLAGS Across The Nation

Draw or Paint a patriotic image and your artwork could be selected for the annual 2009 – FREEDOM ART CONTEST

YOU COULD WIN:
One Grand Prize – Your art FEATURED on the FLAGS Across The Nation web site. Receive 13 note
cards with your winning image and receive a $50 US Bond!

12 RUNNERS UP – Your art FEATURED on the FLAGS Across The Nation web site
And USA Troops benefit – Your art sent to our deployed Troops

View the art submission guidelines  for more information.

Haming it Up after a Mission – Everyone here says hi to Flags Across The Nation. Major Joseph M. Pagnotta reached out to Flags Across The Nation to ask for support. We immediately sent children’s patriotic art, letters and an American Flag.

Little Max, writing a letter to our wounded warriors.
Matthews, NC

Children created hand-prints in a Flags Across The Nation patriotic event in the Town of Matthews, NC. On June 16, children made hand messages for our wounded warriors. The children placed the messages in our Operation SnailMail postal box. The messages will be sent to our wounded warriors who are being cared for in an American military hospital in Germany. Over 60 hand-print messages were created by children. Included in the grouping is a hand-print created by the Town of Matthews’s Mayor R. Lee Myers.

From North Carolina, across the Nation to Ewa Beach, Hawaii; 5 children show off their patriotic art. Flags Across The nation teamed up with Haseko to create a program for Keoneula Elementary School. Students created 400 patriotic pieces of art to send overseas to troops deployed in Iraq.

GySgt Fontenot, Benny S. (location in Iraq) in front of letters and posters, sent by Flags Across The Nation.