Design your own bike helmet competition
Winners announced!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 design your helmet competition:
- 5-6 Category: Joseph aged 6 years (Hilltop School)
- 7-8 Category: Capre, aged 8 years (Mangakino School)
- 9-10 Category: Edmund, aged 10 years from (home school)
- 11-12 Category: Noah, aged 11 years from (Hilltop School)
- 13+ Category: Carys, aged 13 (from Woodford School, parents live in Taupō)
- Judges’ choice: Kyan, aged 11 (Lake Taupō Christian School)
This year we received a total of 158 entries from 20 schools across the Taupō District. The six winners were chosen for their unique creative flair and each winner will have their design professionally airbrushed onto a cycle helmet.
Win a bike helmet with your own design!
Calling all creative kids! Design your own helmet and it could be brought to life by a professional artist.
Download our entry form, get arty and you could win a helmet with your design on it. The competition is open to kids and young people (aged 5 to 13 plus years old) from the Taupō District.
Check out winners from past years in the photos above!
Entries and prizes
To enter, participants must be eligible for one of the following five age range categories as at 1 January 2026: 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13 plus years of age. There will be one winning design in each category, plus one judges choice design. A total of six winning designs will be allocated.
Each winner will receive a bike helmet with their winning design on it!
Entries closed at 5pm on Wednesday 30 September 2026. Thank you for all of the amazing entries received!
Sponsors
Thanks to our awesome sponsors and judges for making this possible: