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Say No' To Smoking
Do not play with your life; instead of
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Stop Smoking Today

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SAVE GIRLCHILD

SAYVOTO
DEFORESTETON

SAVE WATER
1.Tropicave Water 2 Save Giri Crild
Deiorestaoor

LMT SAY No
DONATE
BLOOD TOP

Follow Trame Rnles DRUGS

4 Dnate Bloxd
5. Follow Trafic Rules 6.Sa No to Drugs

MTERPOELLT

EDuCATIOoN FORALL ArFollution

7.Education for All 8. Air Pollution 9, Water Pollt
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SaveWildlife
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10. Do not Text and Drive 11. Say 'No' to Alcohol 12. Save Wildlifee

ADOPT PETS
S A V E

WEP WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

WOMEN
EMPOWERMENTT

13. Save Power 14. Women Empowerment

15. Adopt Pets

Holn EXERCISE
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Ongem Donatio
16. Organ Donation
17. Help the Aged 18. Exercise

CLEANLINESS
STOP
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19. Stop Child Labour 20. Cleanliness

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Topics Taglines
Pollution

2. Women's Safety: Here is to strong women

Women's May we know them
Empowerment: May we be them
May we raise them
Women have the power to change the world.

ducation

iteracy alempor11nake a beller world.

4. Save Water Every drop matters.. Save itbefore it's too late.
Save water, save life.
Thousands have lived without love; not one without water.

5ave I reey rbreallhe, iyr

6. Follow Traffic Rules F a s t drive could be your last drive.

Follow traffic rules and be safe.
Drive safe, Stop accidents before they stop you.
I f you don't hear, your end can be near (avoid using phones while walking on roads)

7. 5ave Wildlife

) 1 ry, 5ave vwildlife

8. Help the Aged What they are today, you shall be tomorrow.
Be kind. Reach out.
A little compassion goes a long way. Help the aged. Show some love.

9 Bully/Ragging

10. Peer Pressure B e your own kind of beautiful.

Be who you are and the world will adjust.

I f you follow the crowd, you might get lost in it.

Seek inspiration, do not follow blindly.
11. Punctuality

12. Adopt Animals All animals deserve to be ioved.

M a k e some room for the little creatures in your heart.
13. Fight Malaria ha

14. Clean India Let's keep india clean

Campaign Keep it healthy and green
15. Say 'No' to Ibt c kill
lobacco
on't think it call ber usehui n any w
16.
Healthy and Good Eat light, live right
Lifestyle .Eat wise, drop a size
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Topics Taglines
ould be Our last tood
Say No' to junk
Food nele burger
and love never ends.
1s Family Comes First Family: Where life begins
through lite's storms.
Family is an anchor that holds us

Sustainable re dr u
Det elopmen: :dav dont m

20. Save Ozone No ozone =No life

B e a part of the solution, not the part of the pollution

lastic Pollution
22 Afforestation Lend a hand to save trees.
ser a

Cieanliness wont have a s e t y it we don t have lean en irnment

25. Save Girl Chilld A girl child brings joy; she is no less than a boy
26. Terrorism Terrorism has no nation; it has no religion.
Mobile Phone and our celihone has already replaced vour camera
lts Impact Tlendarihd vou
Helping Others thers A real heT thhel h heart
2 Exereise
30. Hard Work No pain, no gain.
31 Benefits of Reading Once vou learn to read, vou will be iree torever
32. Animal When the buying stops, the killing will too. Think about it.
Hunting/ Poaching Hunting can never be a source of joy; killing for
33 Say No to 1ar sport can never be justified.
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shing i TOng
34. Unity and Even the weak become
Teamwork strong when they stand united.
indness tne her to obal robiem
36. Save Yamuna/Save
no
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too late.
Ganga
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Poster Making

SAMPLESs
1.School EducationA promotional Poster 2. Books--Our Best Friends

Let's Go to School| Books

Inform Instruct Delight Enrich

SCHOOL IS IMPORTANT Make Your school
Educate Empower Grow LIBRARY
READING|
SCHOOL EDUCATION a regular has over
Helps to improve the way of lite habit 10,000 books
Helps to secure one's tuture
When you are gloomy or lonely, your best friends is
Improves individuals
Helps to develop one's personality A BOOK
Fncourage and Motivate the ones near vou to Don't judge a book by its cov et. Read it
nroll in Sehools
Issued in publie interest Issued in public interest
by Jeewan Shiksha, an NGO by Bloomield Reading Club

3. Road Safety 4. Organ Donation

Wear Your You Don't have to be a Doctor

to SAVE LIVES
Helmet!! Give someone a second chance
The tact that many lives are saved becuse
It can SAVE your life w ot organ donation is
amazing. \When organs
are donated
by person, upto S lives can be
a
Stay out of blind spots saved.

Do not weave in and out of traffic Live even after you die i
Your family can be comforted
Do not overspeed by the thought that a part
of their loved one will live on in someone else and
make the other person's lite so much more
help
Follow traffic rules meaningtul.
Give someone the precious Gift of Life
even after you have died
ROAD SAFETY
Donating organs is the most
amazing gitt we can
give
to someone.
KNOW IT So Pledge Today and Say
FOLLOW IT YES, Iwill DONATE
Issued in public interest
Issued in public interest
by Delhi Tratfic Police
by Red Cross Societ
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6. Clean India Campaign
5. Save Energy

LET'S KEEP INDIA CLEAN

EVERY WATT Swachh -Educate
COUNTS Bharat
Abhiyaan
Empower
Lead by example

Make it a task
Purchase energy-efficient products TOGETHER WE CAN
Turn off lights when not in use Let's Make a New India

Do not waste power Say no to littering

Dispose waste in proper bins

Avoid using plastics
SAVE ENERGY Use green energy
for Keep your surroundings clean

A BETTER TOMORROW
CLEAN INDIA, GREEN INDIA
Issued Issued in public interest
by Green Earth Eco Club, DPS, Noida by Government of India

7. Indian Tourism 8. Save the Tigers

INDIAN
TOURISM
SAVE THE TIGERS
Come and explore the magical land
of
INDIA
The country of sorts
lontains nd hill Ctrl+S
"Look at the tigers
mighty and strong
Killing them for their skin
Visit and is very wrong!"
explore the difference
Do You know?
Incredible!ndia less than 3,000 tigers are left in India.
Issued by Govermment of India Issued by PETA, India
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9.Blood Donation
10. Say 'No' to Plastics

Do You Really Need That Harm ful

Plastic Bag?
DONATE

BLOOD SAY NO
T0
PLASTIC
-SÁVE LIVES
You don't have to be a doctor
to save lives
REFUSE single-use plastic items
REDUCE your plastic usage
Just Donate Biood REUSE your plasticitems
It'ssafe RECYCLE plastics
It'ssimple Plastics are non-biodegradable
And it saves lives Burning of plastics releases toxic gases.
Many innocent creatures die due to plastics
Do not pollute; usealternatives to plastics
Do You know? BE AWARE, BE RESPONSIBLE
1 act of blood donation can save upto 3 lives.
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
Issued by Rotary Club of India Issued by Nature Club of Edwin School

11. Harmful Effects of Cell Phones 12. Say'No'to War

Say NOto
BEWARE OFL
Interferencewith pacemakers
Pressureor tingling in head
Breakin blood brain barrier CELL
PHONE
WAR
Impaired Immune system
HEALTH
Reduced Melatonin
Genetic damage HAZARDS
Melanoma of eyes
Nerve damage - Do You know?
Headaches Studies have shown
Memory loss exposure to cell phone
Braintumours radiations is associated
DNAalterations with a wide range ot A different and peaceful WORLD is
Eyeproblems health-related possible;
Pulseless Electrical problems. stand up for the human rights.
Activity (PEA)
Remember
BE SAFE.. BE ALERT.. War has no winners.
Issued in public interest Issued in public interest
Government of India by Austin School of Peace
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GUIDELINES

while a student is drafting a poster, he or she should keep the following things in mind:
1. Having concise and relevant content.
2. Ensuring that the message of the poster is credible.
3. Making it visually appealing.
4 Including both textual and graphical illustratiorns (unless you are not able to represent your clip arts as
per the topic)
5 Adding an issuing authority in the poster.

6. Enclosing the poster in a box.

7. Avoiding overwriting and grammatical errors.
8. Avoiding clutter.
9. Keeping it simple and neat.

STEPS BEFORE DRAFTING A POSTER

1. Plan Plan, what you want your poster to look like.
2. Layout Think of a layout; keep it simple and relevant.
3. Content Draft the content/message to be included as per the topic.
4. Clip art Draw a simple clip art relevant to the topic.
5. Enclose Once done, enclose the poster in a box.
6. Revise Revise and check quickly if all that is needed is included or not.