Keep the family busy with these creative kids competitions!

Are you stuck with bored children at home? Creative kids competitions are a great way to keep them busy – but will also put their brains to work. Here’s a few fun kids competitions they might like to try… don’t forget to check the comments too as you’ll find more comps there!

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Design an Aldi Lorry

To celebrate the countdown to Paris 2024, Aldi, Team GB and ParalympicsGB are challenging young people aged 5–14 to get creative and design a lorry that inspires people to enjoy healthy, sustainable food.

The judges will be selecting first, second, and third place winners from each of England, Scotland and Wales. The three first place designs will each be used on an Aldi lorry and will also each receive a £100 Aldi voucher, a Team GB and ParalympicsGB goody bag, and £1,000 for their school (or a community group to be agreed with Aldi, Team GB and ParalympicsGB if the winner is home schooled). Their prizes will be delivered by Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes in a special celebration assembly. The three second place winners will receive a £50 Aldi voucher, a Team GB and ParalympicsGB goody bag, and £750 for their school. The three third place winners will receive a £25 Aldi voucher and £500 for their school.

Find out more at getseteatfresh.co.uk/designalorry – the closing date is 23 June 2023.

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Win a trip to Kerala

The third International Children’s painting competition 2023 is open worldwide and has prizes of 18 five-night trips to Kerala, plus 70 runners up prizes! Entrants should be age 4 to 16 (born between 01.01.2007 and 01.01.2019). The theme of the competition is ‘Kerala Village Life’ and children can use crayons, coloured pencils, paints or sketch pens and submit up to five entries. Register and upload your artwork at keralatourism.org/contest/icpc (my referral link). Prizes are split between entrants from India, Kerala, and the rest of the world (find out more on the Prizes page)

T&Cs are here. Closing date is 30 September 2023.

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I regularly recommend www.toppsta.com as a fabulous place to win kids books, and you have a better chance of winning if you add reviews to your child’s account. Ask your children which books they’ve read recently – older kids will be fine to type up their own reviews, but for younger children you could ask them questions about the books and then type up the review yourself based on their answers. Help them expand their vocabulary and ask them to think of different adjectives – exciting, thrilling, fascinating, etc. – to describe the story and characters. Try asking Google or Alexa for synonyms!

Find out more about kids book competitions in my blog post Competitions for bookworms. 

Other comping fun for kids

• If you don’t mind giving them a phone or tablet, set the kids to work on some instant wins! My son Ryland loves playing ‘spin to win’ free instant wins online, or the games on the Coca-Cola app. Check my list of instant wins for the latest comps! 
• If your child loves to write, there’s a great list of current UK writing competitions on the School Reading List website – which also includes public speaking competitions too.
• Moma.co.uk lists some nice arty kids competitions! 

Do you have any more tips for keeping the kids busy comping while they’re stuck at home? Let me know in the comments.