2026 ACS-LA KIDS’ ART CONTEST!
ACS-LA is having its very first Kid’s Art Contest!
This contest is for kids currently in 1st through 8th grade and we will announce 4 winners who will each receive 2 whale watch tickets! We will separate the contest into 4 divisions to group similar ages:
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- 1st and 2nd grade
- 3rd and 4th grade
- 5th and 6th grade
- 7th and 8th grade
There will be one winner from each division who will receive 2 whale watch tickets!
Art submissions are due by May 5th, 2026 and winners will be announced May 10th. We will celebrate our winners on a noon whale watch with Harbor Breeze out of Long Beach on May 30th, the Saturday following Memorial Day weekend. (If you can’t make it on that day, you may use your 2 tickets on another day.)
Thank you Shelly for allowing us to use your photo! Photo credit: https://welcometonanas.com/fun-watercolor-ideas-on-an-art-play-day/
We’re deeply grateful to Harbor Breeze Cruises for their generous donation of whale watch tickets to ACS-LA for our art contest winners — helping inspire the next generation to create and shape a brighter tomorrow. Harbor Breeze is located in Long Beach, CA (near the Aquarium of the Pacific).
Kids’ Art Contest Rules
1) The subject of the artwork must be ocean / cetacean themed. (Cetaceans are whales, dolphins, and porpoises.)
2) One submission per entrant.
3) Entrant must be in grade 1 through 8 and create the artwork completely on their own.
4) Please submit 1-3 .jpg or .jpeg of artwork that is 2MB-8MB in file size to ACS-LA.
- You may scan artwork or take a photo. If you take a photo be sure it is clear and well lit.
- We can only receive up to 8MB per email, so if your photos total more than 8MB, please send more than 1 email for your submission.
5) Artwork may be in any physical medium including crayon, paint, marker, charcoal, clay, wood, metal, paper mache, etc. Artwork must be physically created artwork for this contest. No digitally created or digitally altered art will be accepted.
6) ACS-LA may use photos of winning artworks in winners’ announcements and post them on the ACS-LA website, Facebook page and Instagram page.
How to enter
1) Please put entrant’s last name at the beginning of the filename. (Example: smith2026acslakidsartcontest.jpg, jones2026acslakidsartcontest.jpg)
2) Submit your photo to acs.lachapter@gmail.com by midnight on May 5, 2026.
- Subject line of the email should read “Kids’ Art Contest submission 2026“.
- In the body of the email, please include:
– The child’s full name
– The child’s age and grade
– The full name of child’s parent or guardian
– Contact information including a phone number and an alternate email if possible.
– A title and short description of the artwork being submitted, and
– Optionally, we would love to hear, in your child’s words, what it is they love about cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) and our oceans.
3) Remember, Google email can only receive up to 8MB per email.
ACS-LA is a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit whose mission is to help protect cetaceans and their habitats through research and education. The American Cetacean Society (ACS) was founded in 1967 and is recognized as the first whale, dolphin, and porpoise conservation group in the world. For more than five decades, ACS has been dedicated to bringing education, current research, and critical conservation issues to people who care about cetaceans and the habitats on which they depend.
This art contest is being hosted by the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Cetacean Society.
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