![](https://iditarod.com/wp-content/themes/iditarod/images/icon-instagram.png"){kind=icon}
Art Projects
This year’s theme, “Under the Burled Arch in Nome” brought us many fabulous Trail Mail Art Contest entries. Thanks to everyone who participated. Teagan R., age 12, of Omaha, Nebraska has been selected as the artist for the 2025 Trail Mail envelopes. Teagan’s design was selected by Jon and Jona Van Zyle to be printed …
This winter looked a little different in downtown Anchorage than it normally does. With the Covid restrictions that were in place, sled dogs were not seen downtown taking off from Fourth Avenue for the start of the Fur Rendezvous or the Iditarod Ceremonial Start in March as they traditionally do. As a way to keep …
Throughout the years of my teaching about the Iditarod, I have always had a lot of support from the special areas teachers at my school. These teachers have always been so collaborative, that I wanted to make sure that I included some lessons that can be used with their class content as well. So …
Join us for a Virtual Adventure! Design a Quilt Square. Submit your quilt square via Internet and be a part of a quilt that wraps planet earth — Idita Style! Design and create your own quilt square(s). Take a digital image of the quilt square. Send it to us and we’ll add it to the …
Yupik Art Project for Classrooms! Educational Journalist, Joy Davis, of Indiana engaged her students in an art project involving Yupik heritage. Her basic skills class sponsors Mike Williams, Jr. who is a Yupik Eskimo. To learn more about the culture the class did some reading and research. Please refer to the follow site for more …
In an ‘Iditarod’ classroom, students are always busy on a variety of projects throughout the year. Classroom teacher, Diane Pollock, integrates Iditarod and sled dogs into her curriculum in many ways. In past years, Diane worked with another teacher, Mary Owsley, (FACE) on a project that resulted in students creating book markers with the ‘I …
By Sally Simon It all started with a patch. The patch was Cathy Walter’s Target® Iditarod 2009 Teacher on the Trail™ patch. It was sitting on my desk at school after I returned from the Winter Teacher’s Conference in Anchorage. A second grade student saw it and asked about it. I explained the tradition started …
These are the sculpture that my Art Foundations students created. The sculpture was created using some Saran Wrap and Scotch Plastic Packing Tape. Extra support was added with the help of plastic drinking straws and aluminum wire, the dogs eyes are blue glass beads and the gangline was made with strings of Christmas tree lights …