New Competition Themes
While competitions have been a part of the State Fair since the beginning, each year new themes capture the creativity, humor and talent of Minnesotans in a variety of categories from quilts on-a-stick and decorated cakes to flower shows and landscape design.
Details
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Quilt On-A-Stick – “The Fair at First Light”
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Quilters’ imaginations are captured on an 8” x 9” piece with a paint-stirring stick inserted.*
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Cake Decorating – “Roadside Attractions”
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Let a favorite road trip be the inspiration and include a photo with the entry.*
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Decorated Cookies – “Shoes”
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How will bakers interpret this theme on cookies no bigger than 4” in diameter?*
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Decorated Cupcakes – “Pets”
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Paying homage to our best friends couldn’t be sweeter than on a cupcake!*
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Minnesota State Fair Flower Show – “Minnesota Loves Summer”
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Our love affair with the seasons will be in full bloom Aug. 28 and 29.+
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Minnesota State Florists Association’s Floralpalooza – “Happily Ever After”
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Floral designers and retail florists bring their “once upon a time” visions to life in the center rotunda of the Ag-Hort Building in a floral extravaganza that never ceases to “wow!”+
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FFA Landscape Design and Construction – “Landscape for Color”
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Students from Minnesota FFA chapters construct up to 10 sites, each 14’ x 14’, using colorful plant materials and are judged on design, construction, correctly labeled plants, accessories/lighting and more.^
Entries in these categories will be on display in the *Creative Activities Building, the +Agriculture-Horticulture Building or outside the ^CHS Miracle of Birth Center. Hours vary.
Photos: 2022 Decorated Cookies Theme “Quilts”; 2021 Floralpalooza Theme “Homegrown Legends”
