Draw Your Mummy Competition

Winning a beautiful gift for your Mum on Mothers Day has never been so easy! Budding arts as young as one year old can participate in the annual Draw Your Mummy art competition currently being held by Holroyd Council.

Now in its eleventh year and getting bigger and better than ever the Draw Your Mummy Competition is open to children 12 years and under with judging in different age categories.

The competition is an initiative of the Merrylands CBD Committee and has grown to now include generous sponsorship from most of the shopping centres throughout the Holroyd area.

2009 Draw Your Mummy Art Competition Winners

Ninety children were presented with prizes that they had won for their mother in the annual Draw Your Mummy art competition earlier this month. The competition is a Holroyd City Council Mothers Day initiative in conjunction with the Merrylands CBD Committee. Prizes are donated by local retailers and business owners.

The Champion of Champions for 2009 was Saneer Samanta - 6 years old who received a gift pack of goodies from Idraft Plans Pty Ltd and a beautiful handbag from Zeds for winning the 6 years category for his mother.

There was also a special mention, Champion of Champions for Maddison King winner of 10 years old category who received  a beautiful gift package of French Perfumes from Cincotta Chemist an additional gift of a Gym outfit from Contours, Merrylands for her mother.

4 years and under

1st Place: L. Obeid, 2nd Place: M. Bejjani, 3rd Place: R. Behlevanes
Highly Commended: B. McEachern & S Mardini
Commended: R. Sims, M. Cummins, B. Skinner, J. Mekdessi & K.Vardy

5 years

1st Place: E. Pavlovic, 2nd Place: L. Bradbery, 3rd Place: I. Onato
Highly Commended: S. Hosur & M. Kumar
Commended: A. Jegendran, A. Garibovic, R. Sribaskaran, A. Haider & H. Haider

6 years

1st Place: S. Samanta, 2nd Place: S. Khan, 3rd Place: M. Syed
Highly Commended: N. Sison & U. Ahmadi
Commended: N. Pavlovic, L. Holohan, J.S. Olca, A. Sharma & H. Skinner

7 years

1st Place: O. Elmasri, 2nd Place: M. Haider, 3rd Place: D. Kumar
Highly Commended: E. Root & A. Cuardros
Commended: B.M. Kantimthanti, C. Bejjani, M.J. Olca, D. Allen, S. Charif, A. Azzopardi & P. Sribaskaran

8 years

1st Place: M. Haider, 2nd Place: G. Mekdessi, 3rd Place: Z. Khan
Highly Commended: S.J. Bovjandy & C. Sukkar
Commended: I. Kaur, S. Chen, J. Blecher & V.Li

9 years

1st Place: C. Boumelham, 2nd Place: V. Lee, 3rd Place: H. Elrich
Highly Commended: D. Elmarsi & M. Femenias
Commended: C. Coroneo, I. Sleiman, L. Behlevanas, E. Allen & D. Mekdessi

10 years

1st Place: M. King, 2nd Place: F. Syed, 3rd Place: B. Omari
Highly Commended: S. Sims & A. Onato
Commended: G. Buzzo, M. Cuardros, V. Khua, S. Holohan, H. Almoussawi, P. Hosur, J. Subramaniam, K, Jegeendran & J. Wehbe

11 years

1st Place: J. Mekdessi, 2nd Place: W. Dessay, 3rd Place: L. Sundaramoorthy
Highly Commended: O. Zerefos & T. Wright
Commended: R. Grinyer, X, Hamilton, T. Belcher & J. Bali

12 years

1st Place: A. Omari, 2nd Place: A. Femenias, 3rd Place: A. Khan
Highly Commended: W. Chen & I. Omari
Commended: A. Mekdessi, S. Wehbe & M. Faiz

2009 Champion of Champions: Saneer Samanta

With a special mention for Maddison King