The Easter Egg Shaker Giveaway and Two Creative Competitions

The Easter Egg Shaker Giveaway is now closed, the draw has been made and 10,000 beautiful mahogany egg shakers will be sent out this week to 18 lucky schools for their FSM pupils to use at home.

But don’t despair if you missed it, as we’re now launching Stage Two: Creative Competitions for the “Best Dressed Egg” and the “Best Performing Egg”. The competitions are open to any school-aged UK resident and there are great prizes for children and their schools. The closing date is 30th April 2021. Click here to go to the Competition page or see further below for details.

Egg Shakers Natural – Bag of 5

And if you’re desperate to get your hands on some eggs, click here to see our most popular egg collections: eggs for painting, egg making kits and lots of egg shaking sets.

The Creative Competitions

1. Best Performing Egg

We’re looking for the three best (most amazing, amusing and musical) video clips of two or more eggs (and the more the merrier!) making music together. The clips should be between 10 and 60 seconds long, so you may need to do some editing. The competition is open to any one of school age, home-schoolers too, and you don’t have to use Drums for Schools eggs shakers – any make is fine.

To enter the competition

1. Compose / jam a short piece of music using your egg shakers

2. Video your performance

3. Upload the video to your Instagram and tag @drumsforschools and #DfSBestPerformingEgg

Uploads must be completed on or before midnight on Friday 30th April. If you haven’t got an Instagram account, just upload your video to YouTube, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud or other cloud hosting, and send an email with subject “Best Performing Egg Entry” to drumsforschoolscomms@gmail.com and include the link, your name, school name and school postcode.

2. Best Dressed Egg

We’re looking for the two most creatively decorated egg shakers. Any type or style of decoration is allowed. It can be crazy, serious, multi-colour, monotone . . . you can use pencil, crayon, wax, paint, glitter, engraving, collage . . . Surprise and astonish us with your creativity! The competition is open to any one of school age, home-schoolers too, and you don’t have to use Drums for Schools eggs shakers.

To enter the competition

1. Decorate an egg shaker

2. Take a photo of your decorated egg shaker

3. Upload a photo to your Instagram and tag @drumsforschools and #DfSBestDressedEgg

Uploads must be completed on or before midnight on Friday 30th April. If you haven’t got an Instagram account, just send an email with subject “Best Dressed Egg Entry” to drumsforschoolscomms@gmail.com attaching your photo and including your name, school name and school postcode.

Winners

The competition will be judged on Friday 7th May and the results will be posted on this page and also on the Drums for Schools Instagram account. The winners will each receive a Drums for Schools voucher for £100 and be able to nominate a school or community centre to receive a further prize from the selection below. Prizes will be assigned by the judges to the winners’ nominated schools or community centre.

Prizes will include:

The winners will each receive a Drums for Schools voucher for £100 and be able to nominate a school or community centre to receive a further prize from the selection below.

The Legalese

Competition Terms and Conditions

1. No purchase is needed to enter the competitions.
2. This competitions are open to any UK resident of school age.
3. Entries must be received by midnight Friday 30th April 2021. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the relevant closing date for any reason. Automatically generated entries and entries via agents or third parties are invalid and shall not be considered. Entries become the property of the Promoter and are not returned. 
4. Only one entry is allowed per person per competition. No entrant may win more than one prize. 
5. To enter the Best Performing Egg competition upload your video to your Instagram and tag @drumsforschools and #DfSBestPerformingEgg. 
6. To enter the Best Dressed Egg competition upload your photo to your Instagram and tag @drumsforschools and #DfSBestDressedEgg. If you haven’t got an Instagram account, send an email with subject “Best Dressed Egg Entry” or “Best Performing Egg Entry” to drumsforschoolscomms@gmail.com and attach the photo or include link to video.
7. All correctly posted entries will be entered into the appropriate competition, which will be judged on Friday 7th May 2021
8. The prizes are £100 Drums for Schools Vouchers for the winners plus the right to nominate their school or community centre to receive a set of musical instruments, to be allocated by the judges.
9. The winners will be notified via Instagram on Monday 10th May 2021.
10. To obtain details of the winners please email marketing@drumsforschools.co.uk with “Egg Competition Winners” in the subject heading within 4 weeks after the closing date. 
11. Prizes are subject to availability. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right (a) to substitute alternative prizes of equivalent or greater value and (b) in exceptional circumstances to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. No correspondence will be entered into. 
12. By entering the competitions, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by the Promoter for the purposes of the administration of the competition. 
13. This Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by or associated with Instagram. You acknowledge that all information and material that you submit to enter this Promotion is submitted to the Promoter and not Instagram and you agree that Instagram shall not be liable to you in any way in respect of this Promotion. 
14. The winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity. 
15. Promoter may disqualify any entrant whose entry does not comply with these terms and conditions (in Promoter’s sole opinion) or who, in Promoter’s sole determination, has acted in a manner that is fraudulent, dishonest or unjust to other entrants including, without limitation, tampering with the operation of the prize draw, manipulating or rigging votes, hacking, deceiving, cheating or by harassing or threatening other entrants or a representative of Promoter. 
16. By entering the competitions each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions. 
17. The Promoter is Drums for Schools Limited, 21 Shaftesbury Avenue, Burton Joyce NG14 5GL. 
18. These terms and conditions are governed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. 

Egg Giveaway Prize Draw Terms and Conditions 

1. No purchase is needed to enter the prize draw.
2. This prize draw is open to UK schools.
3. Entries must be received by midnight Monday 22nd March 2021. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the relevant closing date for any reason. Automatically generated entries and entries via agents or third parties are invalid and shall not be considered.
4. Only one entry per school. No entrant may win more than one prize. 
5. To enter the prize draw complete the form on this page:  https://www.drumsforschools.com/the-easter-egg-shaker-giveaway/
6. All correctly completed entries will be entered into a prize draw which will take place on 23rd March 2021.
7. The prizes are bags of 5 egg shakers with activity resources. Winning schools will receive one bag and one set of resources for each of their Free School Meals (FSM) pupils. Winners will be selected until all 10,000 eggs have been allocated, so the last winner may receive fewer than one bag and one set of resources for each of their FSM pupils.
8. The winners will be notified via email by 24th March.
9. To obtain details of the winners please email marketing@drumsforschools.co.uk with “Prize Draw Winners” in the subject heading within 4 weeks after the closing date. 
10. Prizes are subject to availability. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right (a) to substitute alternative prizes of equivalent or greater value and (b) in exceptional circumstances to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. No correspondence will be entered into. 
11. By entering this prize draw, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by the Promoter for the purposes of the administration of this prize draw and for limited marketing emails. 
12. This Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by or associated with Instagram. You acknowledge that all information and material that you submit to enter this Promotion is submitted to the Promoter and not Instagram and you agree that Instagram shall not be liable to you in any way in respect of this Promotion.
13. The winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity. 
14. Promoter may disqualify any entrant whose entry does not comply with these terms and conditions (in Promoter’s sole opinion) or who, in Promoter’s sole determination, has acted in a manner that is fraudulent, dishonest or unjust to other entrants including, without limitation, tampering with the operation of the prize draw, manipulating or rigging votes, hacking, deceiving, cheating or by harassing or threatening other entrants or a representative of Promoter. 
15. By entering the prize draw each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions. 
16. The Promoter is Drums for Schools Limited, 21 Shaftesbury Avenue, Burton Joyce NG14 5GL. 
17. These terms and conditions are governed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.