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Simon stared at the poster that hung in his classroom. “Art Festival 

Competition! Hand in your artwork for a chance of having it featured 

in the year book!” Only 4th graders could enter the competition. 

Simon couldn’t wait- he finally had his chance to compete! 

After school that day, Simon asked his parents about entering 

the festival.

“Look look! I can finally enter the festival!” Simon joyfully said 

to his parents. “That’s great Simon! Would you like to look at 

the art from last year’s festival? That way you can think of 

ideas.” Simon excitedly agreed as they got ready to leave.

Simon and his parents entered the school’s cafeteria, where 

pictures of art work from last year was displayed. Simon ran 

up to the pictures, looking very closely at each one. Drawings, 

paintings, handmade displays…so many different ideas!

“Look at that one Simon! Oh, and that one!” his parents said as 

they pointed from picture to picture. “Do you have any ideas 

now on what you’d like to do for the festival?” his dad asked. 

“Well…all this artwork is great! But- I want to try something 

different. Not just a drawing, painting, or display. Hmm…” 

Simon thought to himself. 

“You’ll think of something, don’t worry.” Assured his parents, as 

they made their way back home.

Simon couldn’t get to sleep that night. He thought long and 

hard. “What could I do different?” He asked himself. Simon 

suddenly remembered the magazines his mom had. Pages of 

them would have a bunch of pictures pasted together to cover 

an entire page. “A collage, I’ll make a collage! No one ever made 

a collage before!”

The next day at school, Simon sat next to his classmate Levi. Levi 

was very artistic and always had the best art in art class. He liked 

to pick on other kid’s artwork if he didn’t like it. 

When he saw Simon sign the “art festival” sign-up sheet, he 

laughed. “Haha, YOU’RE going to enter the art festival?” Levi 

pointed at Simon. Simon sat still and quiet, ignoring Levi’s mean 

attitude. He was too busy thinking of his idea for a collage.

In art class, Simon began his collage. He brought from home a 

few pictures of his family and some magazines. He looked 

through the magazines, looking for things he liked. A 

skateboard, a playground, a swimming pool, cats, dogs, his 

favorite foods and many more things that he liked.

 He cut these items out of the magazines in different shapes 

and sizes. Levi was near, drawing a huge picture of dragon. Levi 

always drew dragons.

Levi took a look at Simon’s collage. “What the heck is that 

supposed to be Simon? It looks like one big mess!” Yelled Levi 

with a crooked look on his face. “It’s a collage. It’s supposed to 

look like that...” Simon replied. 

Simon felt his entire body get hot with anger, and his eyes begun 

to swell and tear up. “Whatever you say, cry baby!” Levi walked 

back to his drawing with a smirk on his face. 

It was just two days before the festival. Simon had to hand in 

his artwork by the next day, so the judges can look at it before 

displaying it. Simon took a look at his final piece. He pressed 

out all the bumps and air bubbles so the collage was smooth and 

neat. 

He was worried, though. All he could remember was Levi making 

fun of his collage. “Looks like a mess, he said. Maybe he’s 

right, no one makes collages. They look messy.” 

The next morning Simon felt sick to his stomach. He was making his way 

to the school bus before he heard his mom yell “Simon, your collage!” His 

mom ran out to him holding the collage in front of her and handed it to 

Simon as he faked a smile. Now he felt really sick to his stomach.

Simon sat at an empty desk in the classroom, his collage faced 

down. Levi came over and sat right across from him with a big 

smile on his face. “Look at MY artwork, Simon. Isn’t it great!” 

Simon looked at Levi’s dragon drawing. It was a great drawing, 

like always, but Simon noticed something.

“It is good, but…” “BUT WHAT?” snapped Levi. “It…looks like all 

the other dragons you drew. It’s a different color, different 

size, but it looks exactly like all the others you drew.” Levi’s 

face turned so red, Simon thought steam would come out his 

ears! “Ugh how dare you!” Screamed Levi as he went and sat at 

a different desk, far away from Simon. 

Simon suddenly felt much better. He flipped his collage over 

and looked at it one last time. He was proud of what he made, 

and Levi wasn’t going to take that away. Simon handed his 

collage to his teacher, worrying all day if he would win or not. 

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