The Easter Seals Children’s Art Contest is held every year in celebration of National AccessAbility Week and Red Shirt Day.
Throughout National AccessAbility Week and Red Shirt Day 2021, we asked kids across Canada to draw or paint their interpretation of the theme “When We Include Everyone, We All Win!” for our Art Contest.
Easter Seals Canada congratulates the 2021 winners and thanks all the children who took time to create and submit beautiful works of art for our contest. Scroll down to enjoy the children’s artwork!
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2021 Art Contest Winners, Runner-Ups & Merit Award Recipients
2021 Art Contest Winners
Theme: “When We Include Everyone, We All Win!”
Avery Ng, 10
Winner, ages 10 & under:
(Winnipeg, MB)
Artwork description in Avery’s words:
“I used pencil crayons and markers to make my artwork. I drew a picture of kids forming a human pyramid. A pyramid represents teamwork. Teamwork to me means including everyone and working together. Each kid in the drawing looks different and has different abilities. Each kid is unique and special. If one forgets their job, they all tumble. So they must work together, even when it may be harder for others. When we include everyone, we all win and all have fun!”
Mikaila Navarro,11
Winner, ages 11-15
(Hamilton, ON)
Artwork description in Mikaila’s words:
“My picture is about children or adults with disabilities and different skin colours running to the finish line to tell the world that anyone can be anything or do anything in life even if you are different. So that’s why I wrote “NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND” because no one is left behind, but there are some boundaries such as people judging, hating, etc. In other words, those people don’t believe you can be successful in life. However, in my point of view you can be successful in life if you work hard for it.”
2021 Art Contest Runners-Up
Nova Bozich, 8
Runner-up, ages 10 & under
(Binbrook, ON)
Artwork description in Nova’s words:
“I drew a picture with all different types of people on the 1st place podium. A girl with a service dog, a girl with arm crutches, a boy in a wheelchair and a boy without a disability. They are all winners of the first place trophy!.”
Hanishka Suresh, 9
Runner-up, ages 10 & under
(Burnaby, BC)
Artwork description in Hanishka’s words:
“My drawing says – In a music program when we include all kinds of people we get a beautiful song. Disability won’t be seen.”
Gurudev Bajwa, 11
Runner-up, ages 11-15
(Powell River, BC)
Artwork description in Gurudev’s words:
“This drawing symbolizes the importance of including everyone. Three people are finishing the 10,000 m race. As you can see they all have smiling faces and no one is being discriminated. As you might have also noticed the letters are in rainbow colours, this is a symbol that all genders should be included.”
Sofia & Giulia F., 11
Runner-up, ages 11-15
(Hamilton, ON)
Artwork description in Sofia & Giulia’s words:
“We made this painting together of some hands coming out of a book at the bottom and people in the red spot. Like somebody in a wheelchair playing basket ball, a blind person that does karate, somebody missing an arm playing soccer, somebody that has cancer as an artist, and a chef. To show how everybody can be included in something and it can be really fun.”
2021 Merit Award Recipients
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Previous Easter Seals Art Contests
2020 Art Contest Winners
Theme: “An Inclusive and Accessible Canada for Everybody”
Cora Turnbull
(Category A Winner)
Daniel Ekanayake
(Category B Winner)
Haraameen Snamra
(Runner Up)
Daniel Thomas
(Runner Up)