Drawing competition for kids launched!

Made by Mortals CIC a north west music theatre organisation, has launched a national drawing competition for children. Entries will be in with a chance to star in an episode of their hit podcast Armchair Adventures!

Made By Mortals are the guys behind Armchair Adventures, the super-fun interactive, chart-topping podcast. It's about 15 year old Connie from Manchester and her gang of plucky explorers.

They're looking for children of all ages to flex their drawing skills and use their imagination to answer this simple question,

Draw where you'd you send Connie and her gang on an Armchair Adventure

It can be anywhere! The beach, a roller coaster, or even the jungle!

Made by Mortals want to see your drawings, creations, crafts, paintings, even sculptures of places to send our explorers on an adventure.

Their fave will win some pretty epic prizes,

For our favourite drawing, we will invite the drawer to star in an Armchair Adventure episode and become a podcast superstar. You’ll be acting, singing and moving with Connie and her customers!
Five runners up will have their artwork blown up huge and displayed in shopping centres around the North of England. It will be like your imaginary adventure has sprung to life. Make sure your work is bright and colourful so everyone who walks past will be totally mesmerised by your art!
And, every entry will be displayed in our online gallery on our website, so our listeners from all over the world can see your amazing drawing talent.

But hurry you only have until 30th April 2021 to get your entries in.

The comp is open to kids of all ages. You can find all the T&Cs and how to enter right here

About Armchair Adventures

Armchair Adventures is a super fun (and a little bit bonkers) interactive, fictional podcast. It's where you come along for the adventure, where you'll move, dance and sing along!

We've been featured on BBC Radio 4 and Fun Kids Radio and had over 15,000 listeners from across the world!

In each episode, you'll visit magical places, meet extraordinary people and understand the world a little better as you embark on a journey of your weird and wonderful imagination! All without leaving your front room - which is really handy at the minute right?

🎧🎧 Listen to the podcast for free wherever you get your podcasts, OR by clicking right here “Armchair Adventures is really important and a really great podcast to highlight. It’s podcasts like this that provide such an essential lifeline for people. It provides a sense of community and friendship and it’s only gonna continue to be a vital service.” - BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Podcast hour

We reckon this is the perfect way to rope the whole family into doing something a little bit more fun than that boring zoom call - get granny and grandad involved too!

For more info head to the Made By Mortal's website www.madebymortals.org/armchair-adventures

We're also on socials too Twitter: twitter.com/madebymortals and Facebook: facebook.com/MadeByMortalsCIC

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