World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. This holiday was established by the United Nations to draw everyone’s attention to the quality and value of this natural resource, since only 1% of the water resources on the surface of our planet is suitable and safe for human consumption.

To update the issue of the ongoing water crisis in the world and to promote public awareness of the need to urgently improve the situation, we, VENDEN, are organizing a children's drawing competition entitled "Water in our world" for the fourth year in a row!

We sincerely thank the preschool educational institutions and educational institutions that implement preschool education programs from all over Latvia who responded to our invitation to participate in the competition! This year we received more than 7,457 drawings from 446 educational institutions.

 

Important!
Diplomas for participation in the competition will be received by the authors of all submitted drawings and the educational institutions they represent. They will be prepared and sent to educational institutions by post or courier by May 31, 2025.

 

Which regions are represented by the competition winners?

We are really happy that not only the number of submitted drawings, but also the activity from educational institutions throughout Latvia increases every year! We broke several records this year, including receiving almost 36% more drawings than last year. Moreover, the number of educational institutions participating in the competition has increased by a quarter.

From time to time, we receive comments on social networks that people from Riga have the greatest chance of winning in the public vote, although this is not the case at all – our observations show that the collectives in the regions are more friendly and more united in the struggle for victory. Therefore, being interested, we gathered statistics on the contests and their winners during these four years, showing the cities and villages represented by the winners of the public vote, jury evaluation and VENDEN sympathy award on the maps.

What do the winners have to do?

Prizes for the educational institution will be prepared after announcing the winners, upon agreement with the institution on the necessary sports equipment and materials necessary for learning, not exceeding the amount specified in the prize, including VAT, but no later than May 31, 2025. If during two weeks after the announcement of the competition results, the competition organizers have not yet contacted the representative of the educational institution, please contact the competition organizers by e-mail udensdiena@venden.lv. Prizes won in the competition have not been given in the form of money or gift cards.

For those authors of drawings who won awards and/or letters of appreciation for success in the public vote or for artistic performance, the awards and/or letters of appreciation will be sent to the indicated address of the educational institution by May 31, 2025. If the prizes have not yet been received after this date, and another date of receipt has not been agreed upon, please contact the organizers of the competition by e-mail udensdiena@venden.lv.

Public voting

Congratulations to all 40 winners of the public vote!
This year, too, we have determined the winners in four categories, separating group and joint works from individual works, as well as dividing them into two groups according to the age of the authors – 2 to 4 years and from 5 to 7 years. The educational institutions represented by the winners of the first three places in each category receive a cash prize – the opportunity to supplement sports equipment or materials necessary for learning in a certain amount, however, the authors get gifts from VENDEN and prize from the family entertainment and leisure park ADVENTICA, located in Olimpia shopping centre in Riga.

Category:
individual works, 2 – 4 y.o.

1st – 3rd place:

4th – 10th place:
prizes for success in the public vote – gifts to the author from VENDEN:

Category:
group works, 2 – 4 y.o.

1st – 3rd place:

4th – 10th place:
prizes for success in the public vote – gifts to the author from VENDEN:

Category:
individual works, 5 – 7 y.o.

1st – 3rd place:

4th – 10th place:
prizes for success in the public vote – gifts to the author from VENDEN:

Category:
group works, 5 – 7 y.o.

1st – 4th place:

5th – 10th place:
prizes for success in the public vote – gifts to the author from VENDEN:

 

VENDEN’s sympathy award

From among all the 7,457 drawings submitted, VENDEN also chose one, to which he gave his sympathy award. The institution represented by the winner receives a cash prize – the opportunity to supplement sports equipment or materials necessary for learning in a certain amount. Moreover, the winner of the sympathy award, the author of the drawing, receives gifts from VENDEN and prize from the family entertainment and recreation park ADVENTICA, located in Riga, Olimpia shopping centre, as well as a diploma.

Prizes from jury for artistic performance

For several years in a row, including this year, all submitted children’s drawings have been carefully evaluated by an independent creative jury, consisting of two artists – members of the Latvian Union of Artistsand teachers of the Baldone Art School – Talivaldis Muzikants and Ieva Muzikante.

The jury evaluated the children’s drawings submitted to the competition in accordance with particular criteria:

This year, due to the large volume of submitted works, the independent artistic jury found it particularly difficult to make a decision. The evaluation process took several days, and each work was carefully and with great attention evaluated in order to highlight those drawings that best revealed the depth of the topic, the child’s creative perspective and artistic expression.

Jury member, artist, board member of the Latvian Union of Artists, director of the Baldone Art School Talivaldis Muzikants on the jury’s assessment:

"This year, 7,457 children’s works participated in the competition, a record number, which exceeds the previous year’s competition by more than 2,000 works. Of course, this was another new challenge for the jury.

It must be said that this year’s works surprised with an even higher quality and diversity of creative ideas. We appreciated the enormous contribution of the teachers in teaching the children various techniques - watercolours, gouache, felt-tip pens, crayons, pencils, collages, 3-dimensional works on paper, plasticine and others. It was pleasing that the teachers encouraged the children to think about the importance of water and its various manifestations in our lives – from clean drinking water to polluted water. The works depicted both landscapes with water and all kinds of aquatic inhabitants, such as fish, whales, mermaids and other creatures, various water vehicles, including ships and submarines, as well as fairy-tale characters such as princesses and other characters. This time, in many drawings, traditional water drops and raindrops also acquired new compositional solutions. In the works, we evaluated the children’s individual handwriting, the age-specific stylization of the drawing and the emotional message. In the jury’s assessment, as always, it is important that the child does the work himself, but the teacher is like an advisor who shows various techniques, compositional methods, but preserves the child’s individuality and unique character. There were also many successful group works, in which the teacher, as a good director, guided the children’s work and the final result was of artistic quality.

A topical theme that ran through the entire competition collection was "Flow". The characters of the world-famous Latvian animated film were depicted in a variety of touching compositions in the children’s interpretation. This shows that the little authors not only keep up with the times and have fallen in love with the film and its main character – the cat, but also appreciate water as an element of nature that interacts with the characters in the film.

It was not easy to evaluate the huge volume, we organized it in 3 rounds, but we were positively charged by the creative energy and joy of colour that appears in the children’s works. There were really a lot of good and even excellent children’s drawings. It was very difficult to choose which ones to award, so we even agreed to award two additional prizes in one of the categories. We want to thank many more, so the list of winners of the incentive prize and letters of appreciation is also considerable. On behalf of the jury, I would like to say a big thank you to all the participants and teachers! We wish you creative works every day and good luck in the next competitions!"

This year, the artistic jury determined the winners in each of the four categories, separating group and collective works from individually developed ones, as well as dividing them into two groups according to the age of the authors – from 2 to 4 years and from 5 to 7 years. The educational institutions represented by the first three winners of each category receive a cash prize – the opportunity to replenish sports equipment or materials necessary for studies in the amount of a certain sum, while their authors receive gifts from VENDEN and prizes from the family entertainment and recreation park ADVENTICA, located in Riga, in the Olimpia shopping centre. Moreover, the jury also determined almost 100 winners of incentive prizes, who receive letters of appreciation for artistic performance and gifts from VENDEN. In turn, the artistic jury expresses its appreciation to the authors of more than 200 drawings by awarding letters of appreciation for artistic performance.

Congratulations!

 

Category:
individual works, 2 – 4 y.o.

In the category "Individual work, 2 – 4 years", we are awarding incentive prizes or letters of appreciation for artistic performance and gifts from VENDEN to these young talents (in the table, the drawings are arranged by the number assigned to them by the system, not by the place they obtained):

Category:
group works, 2 – 4 y.o.

In the category "Group work, 2 – 4 years", we are awarding incentive prizes or letters of appreciation for artistic performance and gifts from VENDEN to these young talents (in the table, the drawings are arranged by the number assigned to them by the system, not by the place they obtained):

Category:
individual works, 5 – 7 y.o.

In the category "Individual work, 5 – 7 years", we are awarding incentive prizes or letters of appreciation for artistic performance and gifts from VENDEN to these young talents (in the table, the drawings are arranged by the number assigned to them by the system, not by the place they obtained):

Category:
group works, 5 – 7 y.o.

In the category "Group work, 5 – 7 years", we are awarding incentive prizes or letters of appreciation for artistic performance and gifts from VENDEN to these young talents (in the table, the drawings are arranged by the number assigned to them by the system, not by the place they obtained):

Acquirers of letters of appreciation from the artistic jury (in all categories)

The artistic jury expresses its appreciation and awards a letter of appreciation for artistic performance to these young emerging artists (in the table, the drawings are arranged by the number assigned to them by the system, not by the place they obtained):

In the category of individual works:

In the category of group works:

 
*****

Once again, we congratulate all the winners and say a big thanks to all the authors of the 7,457 submitted drawings for the beautiful and interesting drawings, as well as to the educational institutions represented by them for their activity and creative approach! Diplomas for participation in the VENDEN 2025 children’s drawing competition will be available to everyone - both the authors of the drawings and the educational institutions they represent. They will be sent to educational institutions by post or courier by May 31, 2025.

 

Important!

Children's drawings submitted to the competition must be kept in the educational institution at least until May 31, 2025. If the specific work will be selected for marketing purposes, for example for the preparation of representative materials, the competition organizers will contact the work submitter – the representative of the educational institution.

In case of any other questions, we kindly ask you to contact the organizers of the competition by e-mail udensdiena@venden.lv.
 

 

See you at the competition of 2026!
Be creative!

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