About Shankar’s On-the-Spot Painting Competition
Shankar’s On-the-Spot Painting Competition is one of India’s most iconic and prestigious children’s art events, celebrated for encouraging creativity, imagination, and artistic confidence among young learners. The competition evolved as an extension of the renowned Shankar’s International Children’s Competition, and was first introduced in 1952 in New Delhi to prove that artworks submitted to the international contest were original and genuinely created by children themselves.
ATTENTION ALL CHILDREN!
Children’s World is inviting ORIGINAL Stories, Poems & Features (in English) & Paintings (in any medium) for the 37th YOUR PAGES Special November issue!
LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION
JULY 31, 2026
RULES
1 The Competition is open to all school children.
2. Each participant is allowed to send ONE written entry and/or ONE painting only.
3 Schools can send a maximum of TEN written entries & TEN paintings.
4. The written entries must be typed; handwritten. entries shall not be accepted.
5. The word count of prose shouldn’t exceed 750 words; poems shouldn’t exceed 25 lines. Each entry must clearly indicate the word count for prose/line count for poems. Any departure from the given length would disqualify the entry
6. The entries should be sent via email (MS Word doc file for Written entry & Scanned Jpegs for Painting; no pdf files shall be accepted).
7. Al-generated or Al-manipulated content will be disqualified
8. Each entry must be accompanied by a latest passport size photo of the participant & the Declaration form (given below) duly filled.
9. Each entry, Declaration & photograph should be sent in a single email as attachments to cwcontest.nd@gmail.com ONLY.
