The Fertile Crescent
Teach Your Parents 2025-26
How to Participate?
Step 1 – Read the Climate Comics
Start by exploring our climate comics to learn about climate change in a fun and visual way.
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Each comic covers a key idea — from changing seasons to everyday actions that help the planet.
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Discuss them in class or at home.
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You can use these comics as inspiration for your own painting, or choose a comic panel from the PDF to redraw or colour in your own way.
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CLIMATE COMICS (More coming soon):
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The greenhouse effect: Why is the Earth getting hotter?
Comic sample: Weather and Climate
Step 2 – Choose a Painting Theme
Select one of these themes for your artwork:
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Theme 1: Our Changing World
Paint what climate change looks like where you live. Are there hotter summers or heavier rains? Or changes in the skies, trees and animals? Do you see something hopeful, like community gardens or electric buses? You can also paint events happening in other parts of the world.
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Theme 2: Small Steps, Big Change
Imagine how children, families, and communities can care for the Earth. What new ideas could help plants, animals, and people stay healthy? You can also show everyday actions, such as planting trees, saving energy, or keeping parks clean.
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Theme 3: The World We Want to See
Imagine and paint the kind of Earth you’d love to live in. Or suggest the types of inventions, habits, or community projects that could make our planet greener, fairer, and full of life?
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Theme 4: Re-draw a Comic Panel
Pick your favourite panel from the TYP Climate Comics PDF and colour it, re-draw it, or change it in your own way. You can re-imagine the characters, background, or scene details. Choose one or more comic panels from this PDF file- Comic panels.
Step 3 – Create Your Artwork
Use your imagination to express what you’ve learned through the comics.
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What should I paint on?
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Use Paper (preferable), Canvas, or Canvas paper
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Paper size: Should be either 8.5 x 11.5 inches (Letter or A4 size) OR 11.5 x 17 inches (Ledger or A3 size). It does not have to be an exact size.
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Canvas size: 11 x 14 inches. If you can’t find that exact size, just use a size similar to it.
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Important: Please write your first name, grade and school on the back of the painting. We will use this information to create painting labels for the exhibition. If you have a painting title in mind, you can write that down too.
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What medium should I use to paint?
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Please use any medium you are comfortable with: colour pencils, crayons, markers, watercolours, acrylic paints, or mixed media.
FAQs
Q. Is there a submission fee?
No, there is no submission fee. Participation is completely free.
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Q. Can I submit more than one painting?
Yes! You can submit up to five paintings.
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Q. Can I create a painting in a group?
Yes, you can. Just remember to write all group members’ names on the back of your painting.
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Q. I have more questions...
We will be happy to help! Please write to us at TYPtalk@gmail.com
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What happens after you send in your painting?​
Around 100 paintings will be chosen for display at the Arnprior and District Museum in Ontario. Many more will be showcased in our online gallery. Each painting will include the artist’s name and school so that everyone can celebrate their creativity and effort.
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Did you know we held a Teach Your Parents exhibition in 2023?
The 2023 phase of the project was a wonderful success! Hundreds of children took part and shared their paintings. See photos from the final exhibition at Trinity Art Gallery here.
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