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Help spread the word about the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest for U.S. youth, ages 4-15. Below are resources for this year’s free youth contest to share on social media and websites. Feel free to adapt to your online presence.
Media Toolkit
- TEACHERS! Download our Lesson Plan that can be adapted by grade level and by state curriculum standards. Help encourage your students to dream, illustrate, paint, sketch, scribble, scrawl, and color their original hand-drawn concepts of automobiles and other types of transportation designed for imaginative uses.
- PARENTS! Gather crayons, markers, colored pencils, ink pens, and drawing paper or your computer, then download our new print-at-home coloring book or set of Family Activities. Have fun making art together at home over the holidays!
- STUDENTS! Download our “Dream Car” theme song (three different time lengths: 15, 30 and 90 seconds) and create a fun video about your artwork. Find a fun image from one of our past winners to create a slideshow, too. Visit our Flickr Feed. Get inspired on your own design after coloring illustrations by our past winners with our Activity Guide: Coloring & Cars.
- EVERYONE! Share a post on your social media accounts. Copy and share an image below, or even share one of our videos from our YouTube Channel (be sure to subscribe!). Follow Toyota online on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Tag your posts with the hashtags below.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA and #DRMCAR2022 #ArtContestsforKids
Through its “Start Your Impossible” campaign, Toyota highlights the way that it partners with community, civic, academic and governmental organizations to address society’s most pressing mobility challenges. Toyota believes that, when people are free to move, anything is possible. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
Sample Social Media Posts
Click on the social media platform of your choice below to view, copy or download sample image posts for each.
FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | NEWSLETTER
FACEBOOK IMAGES (940×788)
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
FACEBOOK COVER IMAGES
Inspire the power of art! Encourage kids, ages 4-15, to submit their hand-drawn artworks to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest through January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Inspire the power of art! Encourage kids, ages 4-15, to submit their hand-drawn artworks to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest through January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Inspire the power of art! Encourage kids, ages 4-15, to submit their hand-drawn artworks to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest through January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Inspire the power of art. Help your kids submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest now thru January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Inspire the power of art. Help your kids, ages 4-15, submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest now thru January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
TWITTER & FACEBOOK IMAGES (1200×675)
Bring the family together with art! Submit drawings by kids, ages 4-15, to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest now thru January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
What is the car of your dreams? Kids, submit your drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Inspire the power of art. Help your kids submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest now thru January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
On your mark, get set, go! Grab colored pencils, a sheet of paper, and draw the car of your dreams. Submit your drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
A car that travels between reality and fiction? What is your dream car? Submit drawings by kids, ages 4-15, to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
On your mark, get set, go! Grab colored pencils, a sheet of paper, and draw the car of your dreams. Submit your drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
SQUARE IMAGES FOR INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK
Instagram Post
Inspire the power of art. Help your kids, ages 4-15, submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Instagram Post
A car that travels between reality and fiction? See what your kids can dream. Submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Instagram Post
Bring the family together with art! See what your kids can dream. Submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Instagram Post
Bring the family together with art! See what your kids can dream. Submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
INSTAGRAM STORIES
Instagram Story
A car that transports you to a more beautiful world? See what your kids can dream. Enter their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com #ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Instagram Story
A flying jellyfish car that glows and travels through time and space? What is the car of your dreams? Submit drawings by kids, 4-15, to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com. #ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
Instagram Story
Bring the family together with art! See what your kids can dream. Submit their drawings to the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest by January 31, 2022. Details at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.#ToyotaDreamCarUSA #DRMCAR2022
MUSICAL INSPIRATION
15 Sec Track #1-Toyota Dream Car Theme Song
30-Sec Track #1-Toyota Dream Car Theme Song
90-Sec Track #1-Toyota Dream Car Theme Song
We are excited to partner with our friends at Toyota to promote this year’s Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest!
Get your kids’ creative engines started! Unpack the art supplies, unbuckle imaginations, and kickstart the freewheeling designs of what your kids think cars should look like in the future. Then, enter their artworks in the Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest. Submissions created by youth, ages 4-15, are accepted online or by mail starting November 1, 2021 through January 31, 2022.
It’s easy to enter. Kids create an original drawing by hand using digital tools, crayons, color pencils, ink pens, markers, or paint (acrylic or watercolor). With the assistance of an adult, they complete an entry form, which is submitted with the drawing (the original, if sent by mail; an image, if using the online form). Details – with official rules, artwork guidelines, and entry forms – are at www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
Designed to inspire creativity in youth, ages 4-15, and help them imagine the future of mobility, a total of nine U.S. winners will be announced during March 2022. The top three in each of the three age categories (4-7 years old; 8-11 years old; and 12-15 years old) will receive cash prizes ($750 first place in each age category; $500, second place; $250, third place), ready-to-frame digital scans of their drawings, and award certificates. In addition, their artwork will be submitted to Japan for consideration in the World Contest, along with the nine top entries from nearly 90 countries.
Judging based on three criteria: execution, uniqueness, and artistry of concept. Each artwork submission consists of a drawing by an eligible youth, accompanied by a completed entry form signed by a parent or legal guardian (multiple submissions accepted, but each drawing must be accompanied by a separate entry form).
Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan held the first worldwide contest in 2004. Nearly 90 countries now participate each year under the same rules but with varying artwork submission periods. The free youth contest has been presented in the United States since 2012. The annual contest accepts artwork submitted by parents or legal guardians of children between four (4) and fifteen (15) years of age who are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit www.ToyotaDreamCarUSA.com.
