Dream Car Contest
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How It Works—Super Simple:
Draw Your Dream Car
create a car that doesn’t exist yet! Use pencils, paints, markers, or go digital on a tablet
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Upload Your Artwork
fill out the form and submit your drawing
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Wait for the Magic
The winning drawing will be transformed into a 3D model or brought to life as a real vehicle. Shall we dream together?
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We're not looking for the best drawing. We're looking for an idea that should become a reality.
Thanks to your support and participation, our "Dream Car" project entered the top 100 best educational innovation projects at KIVO and won the partner award from Verklov Dom.
Full speed ahead! 🚗🏆
Full speed ahead! 🚗🏆
Dream Car isn’t just a drawing contest.
It’s a way to show that a child’s idea can go beyond the page.
It’s a way to show that a child’s idea can go beyond the page.
Uniquely skilled at spotting creativity and originality in kids’ drawings
AI Judge
PromptProgram
Creative Director, photographer, founder of
@artphotoacademy, and author of Photography: The Art of Deception.
@artphotoacademy, and author of Photography: The Art of Deception.
Irakliy Shanidze
General Director of “Reflection” Center for Culture and Science Development
Alexandra Radushinskaya
Lead curator at IKRA School of Innovation and Creative Thinking
Danil Morozenko
Ecuadorian fashion and product photographer based in New York
Jaime Pavon
Design Director at MTS Fintech (formerly Tinkoff, BBDO Moscow)
Vasil Akulov
Graduate of Stroganov Academy, head of a children’s comic drawing studio
Anastasia Eremeeva
Curator, art manager, and interdisciplinary culture researcher
Elizaveta Molostova
Director and founder of Tesla-Show
Alexander Chumakov
Contemporary artist
Dmitry Khlebnikov
Our talent-spotting crew, including AI, will carefully pick the most dazzling winners
Our Judging Team
We are currently looking for partners, engineers, and people who will help turn a child's idea into reality.
Friends of Dreams...
Our heartfelt thanks to our partners for believing in young talents and children's dreams!
Our Partners
FAQs
Kids aged 2–15 from any country can join. Each child can submit one individual drawing. Parents, guardians, or teachers must upload the artwork and agree to the contest terms.
The contest is conducted in several stages:
Submission Period: June 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Preliminary Selection: January – March 2026
(with the support of AI-assisted screening and volunteer review)
Jury Evaluation: March – April 2026
Winners Announcement: June 1, 2026
(postponed to July 1, 2026)
Please note that the dates may be subject to minor changes.
Submission Period: June 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Preliminary Selection: January – March 2026
(with the support of AI-assisted screening and volunteer review)
Jury Evaluation: March – April 2026
Winners Announcement: June 1, 2026
(postponed to July 1, 2026)
Please note that the dates may be subject to minor changes.
The winners of the competition will receive the following awards:
Grand Prix:
Grand Prix plaque, an honored place in the future Museum of Children's Imagination, and the winning drawing will be transformed into a 3D model or brought to life as a real vehicle.
1st Place:
A unique puzzle-collage created from the winner's drawing and photograph, a set of art supplies, and a certificate.
2nd Place:
A unique puzzle-collage, a set of art supplies, and a certificate.
3rd Place:
Grand Prix:
Grand Prix plaque, an honored place in the future Museum of Children's Imagination, and the winning drawing will be transformed into a 3D model or brought to life as a real vehicle.
1st Place:
A unique puzzle-collage created from the winner's drawing and photograph, a set of art supplies, and a certificate.
2nd Place:
A unique puzzle-collage, a set of art supplies, and a certificate.
3rd Place:
- A set of art supplies and a certificate.
Project Story
Hello. I am an artist and a mother. It all started with a single child's drawing...
to inspire children around the world to draw, imagine, and create
show them the power of their ideas, and ...
and prove that dreams can become reality
and prove that dreams can become reality
Contest Goals
to ignite kids’ creativity
Sometimes ideas are not born in the silence of a studio
or beneath the lights of exhibition halls.
They arrive in a child's room —
to the voice of a little girl who keeps saying:
"Mom, let's draw a car."
"Mom, tell me a story about a car."
"Mom, sing a song about a car."
"Mom, let's go for a ride."
But I didn't have a car.
There was only a taxi.
And her dream
of going on an adventure.
I started searching for the "dream car."
I looked at Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce,
Mini Cooper, Cadillac.
Cars that speak of speed, status, and success.
But my heart remained silent.
Then my daughter drew a car for me.
With simple colored pencils.
And in that moment, I felt it:
there it was.
The real dream car.
I opened Photoshop and, in a way,
climbed inside it.
And suddenly I understood:
a child's imagination is more powerful than brands.
It has no limits.
No price tags.
No rules.
Only freedom.
Joy.
And the courage to imagine the world anew.
That is how The Dream Car project was born.
It is an international children's drawing competition
where children's fantasies become reality.
Many drawings will be transformed into realistic photographs.
And one dream car, we hope,
will become real.
This project is not about cars.
It is about imagination.
About a child's right to dream freely.
And about adults who have not forgotten
how to do the same.
We are building this project with our own hands, from the ground up.
We began this journey without funding,
without connections,
and without special expertise.
Because we believe
that children's ideas can change the world.
We are building a museum without walls.
A museum that appears in cities,
in public spaces,
in people,
and in ideas.
A museum that gradually
fills reality with imagination.
It is a startup.
It is a journey.
or beneath the lights of exhibition halls.
They arrive in a child's room —
to the voice of a little girl who keeps saying:
"Mom, let's draw a car."
"Mom, tell me a story about a car."
"Mom, sing a song about a car."
"Mom, let's go for a ride."
But I didn't have a car.
There was only a taxi.
And her dream
of going on an adventure.
I started searching for the "dream car."
I looked at Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce,
Mini Cooper, Cadillac.
Cars that speak of speed, status, and success.
But my heart remained silent.
Then my daughter drew a car for me.
With simple colored pencils.
And in that moment, I felt it:
there it was.
The real dream car.
I opened Photoshop and, in a way,
climbed inside it.
And suddenly I understood:
a child's imagination is more powerful than brands.
It has no limits.
No price tags.
No rules.
Only freedom.
Joy.
And the courage to imagine the world anew.
That is how The Dream Car project was born.
It is an international children's drawing competition
where children's fantasies become reality.
Many drawings will be transformed into realistic photographs.
And one dream car, we hope,
will become real.
This project is not about cars.
It is about imagination.
About a child's right to dream freely.
And about adults who have not forgotten
how to do the same.
We are building this project with our own hands, from the ground up.
We began this journey without funding,
without connections,
and without special expertise.
Because we believe
that children's ideas can change the world.
We are building a museum without walls.
A museum that appears in cities,
in public spaces,
in people,
and in ideas.
A museum that gradually
fills reality with imagination.
It is a startup.
It is a journey.
It is a spark.
Imagination Seizes Space
The city becomes a museum
Finalist of the competition “The Illusion of Perfection”
This is a project about how a child’s imagination
breaks out from the sheet of paper
and begins to transform the space around it.
The Museum of Children’s Imagination
does not have to be a building.
It can appear in the street, in a yard, on a façade, in the city.
It is not designed.
It happens.
Adults build architecture to fix order:
walls—to enclose,
columns—to support,
space—to control.
But a child’s imagination does not obey those rules.
It does not destroy architecture.
It occupies it from within.
Softness enters the rigid.
The illogical into the logical.
The living into the finished.
And in that moment the city ceases to be just a city.
It becomes a museum.
Public space turns
into a space of imagination.
First a neighborhood.
Then a city.
Then a planet.
The museum does not wait for a visitor.
It arrives on its own.
This is a project about how a child’s imagination
breaks out from the sheet of paper
and begins to transform the space around it.
The Museum of Children’s Imagination
does not have to be a building.
It can appear in the street, in a yard, on a façade, in the city.
It is not designed.
It happens.
Adults build architecture to fix order:
walls—to enclose,
columns—to support,
space—to control.
But a child’s imagination does not obey those rules.
It does not destroy architecture.
It occupies it from within.
Softness enters the rigid.
The illogical into the logical.
The living into the finished.
And in that moment the city ceases to be just a city.
It becomes a museum.
Public space turns
into a space of imagination.
First a neighborhood.
Then a city.
Then a planet.
The museum does not wait for a visitor.
It arrives on its own.
Art in Plain Language
Not to explain art.
But to stop being afraid of it.
This section is in the process of imagination...
But to stop being afraid of it.
This section is in the process of imagination...
And perhaps it really all begins
with a single child’s drawing.
— Alexandra Mamedova
Author of the "Dream Car" project
with a single child’s drawing.
— Alexandra Mamedova
Author of the "Dream Car" project
