Paint brushes, pencils, crayons on the prepared as Armagh Observatory and Planetarium units budding younger artists a festive Christmas card mission impressed by science and house.
Making a comeback, the competitors, concentrating on Key Stage 1 and a pair of pupils, goals to ignite youngsters creativeness and creativity into festive designs from Santa’s sleigh as a spacecraft, to Santa flying by way of an aurora to Christmas on the Moon.
Talking concerning the competitors, Sinead Mackle, Head of Training and Outreach, stated:
“The Christmas card competitors is a novel method of mixing artwork and science. We’re on the lookout for art work impressed by Christmas and a number of of the physics themes – mild, rockets and motions, astronomy, winter sky and house exploration.
“To assist academics, we have now developed a useful resource pack which has themes, key details, sensible actions and inventive prompts to assist them introduce physics and science into the classroom with a festive theme. We look ahead to receiving the entries and seeing how entrants interpret the themes.”
The fortunate winner of every class, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, will obtain a free class go to to Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, with further runner up prizes of 10 youngster memberships and one household membership.
Entries should by A4 measurement or much less, and designs will be drawn, painted or digitally created, and shouldn’t be AI generated. Entries will be submitted through e mail to educationteam@armagh.ac.uk or posted to FAO: Sinead Mackle, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Faculty Hill, BT61 9DB.
The competitors will shut for entries on Thursday, 5 November, 2026.
For full competitors particulars, together with phrases and situations, go to the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium web site.
The competitors is funded by the Institute of Physics Eire and supported by Birr Citadel and Dunsink Observatory as a part of the Astronomical Observatories of Eire (AOI), who’re operating the identical competitors of their respective areas.
The Armagh Observatory and Planetarium has additionally revealed their full Christmas occasions programme on their web site underneath What’s On.