Challenge 3A (PreK – 1st Grade): Building Blooms

YOUR CHALLENGE:

It’s time to become an Eco-Designer! Imagine a special flower – not just any flower that you see in your backyard, but one uniquely made to make your community better. Your challenge is to design a brand-new flower that helps bring nature right into our busy city spaces. Choose a trait of real flowers, like attracting bees and butterflies, cleaning the air, or making yummy fruits, and take it to the extreme.

Invent a flowering plant from your imagination and draw what it looks like. Using your five senses, write out how your plant looks, smells, feels, sounds, and tastes. Let your creativity blossom and give your flower a special name that reflects its unique characteristics.

✓  Submission Requirements:
 Original 2D hand-drawn artwork by students using colored pencil, crayon, pens, markers, and/or paint only; no computer-generated design. Drawings must be no larger than 8.5” by 11”.
 Written description on separate sheet of paper must include the plant’s name and how the plant looks, smells, feels, sounds, and tastes. No minimum or maximum number of words for written description.
 The drawing AND written description must include the student’s first name and last initial, student grade level, teacher’s name, and school name ON THE BACK OF THE PAPER.
 Digital Entry Form (for school and student information only). Electronic uploads of drawing and written descriptions will not be reviewed.
 Physically submit all drawings delivered in person or mailed to Fairchild Challenge via certified mail to 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, Florida 33156, ATTN: Education Department. Hand deliver drawings ANY day of the week 10a-5p at the Visitor Center.
 2 Submission max per school

CHALLENGE RESOURCES:

 

Important Dates

Submissions Due: 
Friday, February 20, 2026 by 5:00pm

Point Breakdown
Participants per submissionIndividual
Maximum number of points per submission75
Number of submissions per grade level per school2

Evaluation Criteria
COMING SOON

Fairchild City in a Garden Standards

Ecological Integration

Cultural Enrichment