Celebrating youth creativity.
The WalkSafe Art Contest encourages children to express how their neighborhood and school streets can be redesigned for youth-first safety.
The contest is open to all students receiving the WalkSafe curriculum throughout Miami-Dade County Schools and at participating schools throughout the State of Florida and is open to both posters and 3-dimensional craft projects. Participants are encouraged to gather additional inspiration through our Virtual Education courses.
Submissions are open to parents or teachers. Parents may submit a single craft project per child, while teachers at participating schools must choose a single art project per grade level (K-1, 2-3, 4-5) to submit on behalf of their classroom.
The contest is open for entries every October, with winners announced the following year.
All entries must be submitted digitally before March to be eligible.
Thank you to our past and present sponsors of the Art Contest:












Celebrating our Past Winners
Each yearly contest is celebrated by our school districts with a special resolution and ceremony for the youth winners of the contest.
These are our winners from prior years from throughout the State of Florida.
Rules and Requirements
All posters or craft projects need to meet the following criteria:
- Projects should reflect one or more of the following themes:
- Safer crosswalks and/or school zones,
- Slow streets or slow drivers,
- Safer street designs (no turn on red, pedestrian refuge islands, pedestrian scrambles),
- Healthy activities
- The art must be 100% created by the child participant, with no adult assistance.
- For posters, paper size must be either:
- 8½” x 11"
- 11" x 17"
- Scary or hurtful imagery and messages will be rejected.

Eligibility for home submissions:
- Child must be between 5 and 10 years of age
- Child must have completed a WalkSafe Virtual Course from walkbikesafe.org. Completion certificate must be uploaded to submission.
Eligibility for students:
- Student participated in the WalkSafe curriculum
- Student is currently enrolled in kindergarten through 5th grade
School Eligibility:
- The WalkSafe Art Contest is open to all Florida schools that implement the WalkSafe Curriculum and submit a Curriculum Completion Form (CCF). A CCF must be present from your school for the entry to be valid.
At the end of the submission period, WalkSafe will select one winner (per grade category) per county. These countywide winners will become the finalists to be entered into the Statewide Art Contest. One project will be selected from each of the grade categories to be the Statewide winners for the school year.
Projects will be judged using the following criteria:
- Relevance of message conveyed by art project to safety for pedestrians
- Ability to encourage safe street design without victim blaming
- Creativity, originality, and artistic quality
Submitting projects

All projects must be digitally submitted through our online entry form: