Aqua by Adobe is partnering with Highlights for Children to launch a new creativity challenge! Submit your students’ artwork for a chance to win a $500 Amazon gift card plus a Highlights Magazine and book set for your classroom.
Every day, students create incredible work, from visual stories, science diagrams, illustrated poetry, collaborative art, and more. Too often, those creations stay within classroom walls. This challenge is your opportunity to share that creativity with a wider audience.
We’re inviting K–12 educators across the U.S. to showcase student work created with Aqua by Adobe and Highlights Magazine.
Draw and Color Online with Aqua and Highlights
Aqua by Adobe is a safe, free, and fun website for kids to explore their creativity. Visit Aqua by Adobe to get hundreds of coloring and activity pages for your classroom, including exclusive activities from Highlights, like Hidden Pictures Puzzles, coloring pages, Hide It!, and more.
What Can I Win?
5 winning teachers will receive:
- $500 Amazon Gift Card: Use it for classroom supplies, books, or art materials. Whatever your students need most.
- Highlights Gift Packages: A 3-month subscription to HighFive or Highlights magazine plus a curated selection of Highlights books
- Opportunity to be featured on the Aqua Blog: A way to highlight how you’re bringing creativity into your classroom.
Even if you don’t win, every submission contributes to a growing movement celebrating creativity in education.
How To Enter
Step 1: Gather 3–5 images of student work created with Aqua by Adobe.
Students can draw and color on Aqua online for free, no registration required, or you can print out any of the hundreds of coloring pages and have your students create on paper. Ensure that the artwork does not have any personal or identifying information of your students.
Confirm that you have permission from your students’ parent or legal guardian to post their child’s artwork and confirm compliance with official sweepstakes rules and regulations.
Step 2: Share your story and submit your entry:
- On Instagram: Share your images using #HighlightsAquaSweepstakes and tag @adobeforedu, with a short caption about how your students use Aqua by Adobe in the classroom.
- On Facebook: Comment on @AdobeforEducation’s contest post with your images using #HighlightsAquaSweepstakes, with a short caption about how your students use Aqua by Adobe in the classroom.
- Or use our online entry form.
Read all of the terms and conditions here.
Who Can Enter?
To participate in Aqua’s Classroom Creators Challenge, you must:
- Be 18 years or older
- Be a current K–12 educator or public librarian
- Reside in the United States
- Employees of the sponsoring company and their immediate family members are not eligible. Read all of the terms and conditions here.
Important Dates
The challenge runs Friday, May 8, 2026 to Friday, June 5, 2026.
Celebrate Student Creativity
Thousands of classrooms are already using Aqua by Adobe to bring student creativity to life. Enter today to celebrate your students and win!
No purchase necessary. Open to legal residents of the U.S. who are 18+ and current K–12 educators or public librarians. Void where prohibited. See official rules.
