Spring Fling Kidlit Contest 2025

The Rules:

1. Your story should be geared towards kids ages 12 or under.

2. Choose a gif to inspire your story.

3. All gifs should be child appropriate and in no way be derogatory towards any faith,

race, etc.

4. Now for the dreaded word count! You have 150 words. That’s it! No more but less

is always welcome.

5. Your title is not included in the word count.

6. No illustration notes pretty please.

7. Your gif should be the only visual with your story.

8. The Spring Fling contest officially begins on April 1st.

9. From April 1st to April 3rd, post your gif and story on your blog. (If you have one.)

10. Then, add the link to your blog to the form on the Entries page of Ciara's blog*

11. Deadline for posting your story or the link to your story is April 3rd, 2025 at

11:59pm CST.

12. Only one entry per contestant is permitted.

Find the full instructions HERE.

Here is my gif and entry for this year!

SPRING—The Trap! -- By: Amanda Blaylock -- WC: 149

Rosey-Cat shouted, “It’s finally here! The time when the flowers first start to appear.”

She’d patiently waited for spring to shine through and planned something great for its budding debut.

She gathered supplies and set them up fast. Would this be the year she would catch one at last?

Hummingbirds never came close to a cat! But she’d make a trap that would get around that!

So, Rosey picked flowers, a hat, and a bowl. And wove in the flowers to make her hat full.

She plopped in her bowl, her hat on her head. “I look like a flowerpot,” Rosey-Cat said.

Rosey kept watch, she quietly sat. An hour passed by, and two more after that!

Then– the first hummingbird! Three! Now Four! Too many to count! It was hummers galore!

But Rosey was still…not a move or a peep. Poor Rosey had not planned on falling asleep!