Kent children invited to create fruit and veg masterpiece

Produced in Kent is inviting the county's primary school children to create a Summer Fruit & Veg Masterpiece in a creative county-wide art competition.

Ten lucky children who submit the best piece of art will be awarded fabulous prizes and the overall winner will be presented with a stunning photographic foodscape picture by TV's celebrity food photographer Carl Warner.

The non-profit making organisation that champions regionally produced food and drink has launched the competition to:

• help young children have fun with fresh fruit and vegetables
• encourage children to connect with regionally grown produce
• raise children's awareness of the huge variety of fruit and vegetables that is grown in the 'Garden of England' during the summer months

The competition is open to all primary school children (from Reception through to Year 6) and entrants are challenged to create their summer Fruit & Veg Masterpiece out of real seasonal and regional fruit and vegetables and photograph it . Alternatively they can make a 'Fruit & Veg' collage using recycled materials and household waste, or children can simply paint/or draw their masterpiece.

Julie Monkman, manager of Produced in Kent explained: "This competition is a really fun and creative way to engage children in the message about healthy eating and eating your 'five a day', and increasingly both parents and children want to reduce their 'carbon footprint'.

"By buying and using locally grown fruit and veg that is in season, families will not only be consuming healthier, fresher and more nutritious food, they will be helping to keep our county and the planet 'greener'."

More information about the competition, its prizes and how to enter are on the Produced in Kent website (link opens in new window). The closing date for the competition is Friday 18 September, so children have the whole summer holidays to get creative with their fruit and veg.

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This Summer 2009 News artile was created on 16th June 2009

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