3 things to do this week:

Every Monday, we highlight 3 things to do this week. It might be something for all of us; it might be naitonal or local; and it could be related to any of the subjects we write about on Motherpedia - money, education, health, fitness, food, beauty and, of course, kids.

Clean out your cupboards & donate

It’s a great time of year to clean out the cupboards of clothes that the kids have grown out of or are no longer using. 

You’ll help the environment and your community by donating your quality used clothing, furniture and homewares to organisations like the Salvos. 

You'll feel great after de-cluttering the house and helping raise money for vital community projects. 

To find your local Salvos store, visit:

http://salvosstores.salvos.org.au/find-a-store/

Consider skiing for free

Mums looking at skiing with the kids during winter get to do so for free! 

Any woman who has a child or children in a full day Snowsports School program can join the Falls Creek Coffee Club. The Coffee Club is a relaxed, women-only group lesson that starts with half an hour for coffee at 10:00am before a two hour ski lesson from 10:30am to 12:30pm. The lesson and coffee costs $59, the price of a normal group lesson, and it entitles mum to a free lift pass for that da

Enter the kids in a Drawing Competition

Now in its third year, the NSW Kids Drawing Prize competition is supported by the oldest pencil maker in the world, Faber-Castell and features an impressive judging panel, including celebrated Australian artist, Ken Done, Countess Natalie von Faber-Castell and Archibald Prize People’s Choice 2012 winner, Jenny Sages.

Judged for their imagination and drawing skills, four promising young artists will be rewarded with a Faber-Castell hamper and an encounter with the prestigious judging panel, all to help boost and nurture their creativity into the future.

Each winner’s works will also make a tour of Sydney, first exhibited in the Art Gallery Society of NSW Members’ Lounge and later showcased on Sydney’s High Street in the Dymocks building. 

This year’s competition theme is My Sydney, drawing inspiration from the Art Gallery of NSW’s current exhibition, Sydney moderns: art for a new world. Young artists are encouraged to be creative with themes of landscape, both natural and urban. 

The competition, which is open to Art Gallery of NSW members, accepts artworks created using pencils, coloured pencils, chalk, oil pastels, charcoal and watercolour pencils, by children in age categories 5-6, 7-8, 9-12 and 13-16 years.  

To download an entry form for the Art Gallery Society of NSW Kids Drawing Prize visit http://www.artgallery.ngov.au/members/current-members/kids-drawing-prize-2013/