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Carey Kinsolving
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Child Artists Hope to Trade Christmas Stockings for Cowboy Boots
South Padre Island, Texas, Dec. 9, 2008 – With Christmas so close, many kids are singing about a one-horse open sleigh or dreaming about a new rocking horse under the tree. What most kids don’t know is that they could also be writing and drawing about Christmas to win a week with real horses on a dude ranch. Children all over the world can spend their Christmas vacation trying to win a summer vacation for their whole family.
Children in the Netherlands even leave hay and sugar in their shoes on Christmas Eve for Saint Nicholas’ horse. Instead of filling shoes with hay and sugar, they may get to fill cowboy boots with their feet.
This opportunity is available through the Children’s International Arts Festival. It’s an online festival where children ages 5-12 answer Bible questions and create original art to illustrate their answers. The festival organizer plans to publish the best children’s writing and art in an online storybook Bible.
One festival question, especially appropriate for Christmas is “How do you know Jesus is the Messiah?” Art is an international language, and the festival organizers are hoping even kids with no English skills will still enter by drawing art to illustrate this question.
Art festival instructions, entry forms and questions can be downloaded at www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org. There is no entry fee. Although entries will be accepted through March 31, 2009, festival organizer Carey Kinsolving urges immediate action. He plans to announce some of the eight winners before the March deadline.
Kinsolving plans to publish the best children’s writing and art in an online storybook Bible patterned after the popular Kids Color Me Bible, which is available for free download at www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org.
“This past summer, four children won dude ranch vacations for their families,” said Kinsolving. “Eight more vacations will be awarded for 2009. The winners and their families will get to be cowboys and cowgirls in some of the most pristine landscapes the great American West has to offer.” To view videos and photos of winners and their families at dude ranches, visit www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org/winners.
So, parents, it might “behoove” you to have some art supplies in the kids’ Christmas stockings this year.
KidsTalkAboutGod.org is a non-denominational, Christian ministry that empowers children by publishing their faith expressions and making them available without charge to website visitors. Visitors may download art and Bible lessons for free. As a newspaper column, Kids Talk About God has been in syndication for more than seven years.
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Eight more dude ranch vacations will be awarded to winners of the Children’s International Arts Festival. Children from all over the world can draw for publication in an online storybook Bible and win a vacation at a dude ranch: www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org.
“Art is a universal language,” says Children’s International Arts Festival organizer Carey Kinsolving. Eight more winners will be riding the range with their families at dude ranches in five states. For details, visit www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org.
To read letters from dude ranch owners, please click here.
To view downloadable photos from participating dude ranches, please visit any of the following links:
Bar Lazy J Guest Ranch - Parshall, Colorado
Coulter Lake Guest Ranch - Rifle, Colorado
Latigo Ranch - Kremmling, Colorado
Medicine Bow Lodge - Saratoga, Wyoming
Rainbow Trout Ranch - Antonito, Colorado
Red Horse Mountain - Harrison, Idaho
Stagecoach Trails Guest Ranch - Yucca, Arizona
Sweet Grass Ranch - Big Timber, Montana
Tarryall River Ranch - Lake George, Colorado
The Hilltop Ranch - Jamesville, New York
Tumbling River Ranch - Grant, Colorado
Western Pleasure Guest Ranch - Sandpoint, Idaho
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