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Calling All Kids & Teens: the Fair Wants Your Art, Crafts, Robots

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And cookies, and collages, and wands, and hats – everything you can create for the America’s Kids’ contests and competitions. Entries are open for all categories, so start planning on winning a blue ribbon. America’s Kids’ theme for 2012 is “A Living Library of Fun.” It’s all about books and favorite stories. So whether you love to read or are just learning to read, America’s Kids is the place you’ll want to visit again and again at this year’s L.A. County Fair.

All contests and competitions are based on children’s books, authors, characters and themes in books. Categories are open to ages 3-18. There are so many fun and creative categories to enter, how will you choose? Maybe you’ll have to enter into them all.

These are just a few of the great categories:

  • Mystical, Magical Wizard Wands or Wizard Hats
    Inspired by Harry Potter and other fantasy stories, make your own wizard wand or hat…or both!
  • Build a Tree House
    Design and build your own miniature tree house and you can start imagining your own adventures just like Jack and Annie from the Magic Tree House book series.
  • Creative Cake
    Decorate a cake using any literature-inspired theme. Some ideas: books, book characters, famous fictional settings, etc….you decide!
  • Recycled Robots
    This was popular last year. Families build robots from recyclable material.
  • “Sew” Exciting: A Living Library of Fun
    Sew something creative like sock book worms, magical capes and cloaks, or Ms.Frizzle-inspired fashions
  • Funny Vampire Vagabonds
    In the Twilight books, the main vampires live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In other books, vampires live in castles, caves, etc. Since they aren’t real, our little vampire can live or travel anywhere you want him to. Print out our vampire and create an environment just for him.

Like I said, this is a brief list of the many contests and competitions (btw, did you know that contests take place during the Fair and are judged on site and competitions include entries that are judged pre-Fair and awarded ribbons so you can see what you won when you visit the Fair? Got that? Confused? Me, too). There is also a special contest celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. Deadline to send in your entry form is June 28.

So, visit the America’s Kids homepage to find a complete list of categories. Can’t wait to see all of your great, creative work!

Enter Your Creations in the Fair – Win a Blue Ribbon!

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Hey howdy hey my L.A. County Fair peeps – been awhile, I know! The good thing about that is I now have a few new words to add to my lexicon of Fair exclamations like “winning!” and “tigerblood!”, although I may change that to “Thummerblood!” OK, maybe not. Anyway, we are getting ready for the 2011 Fair (Sept. 3 – Oct. 2)and first up that means our contests and competitions are open and ready to accept your amazing entries! Winning! (Dang, can’t stop saying that!).

Whether you are a cook, crafter, quilter, collector, artist or ceramicist – we have a contest for you. There are different entry deadlines for each department, so make sure you check out the rules and regulations on lacountyfair.com.

America’s Kids, for our younger participants and families, is themed Surrounded by Science and features a number of contests encompassing science. Some of the competitions include Build a Molecule and Design an Insect. Don’t miss the culinary contests and agriculture and harvest fun. Family contests include family portrait painting and talent show. One year two sisters sang “Popular” from Wicked and it was truly…wicked! There’s the silly sock amoeba sewing contest and even a video production contest for all those future Spielbergs and Apatows.

In Culinary Styles we have all your faves – best pie, best chocolate chip cookie, cupcakes – so be sure to check out the website for a list of all the cooking/baking/preserves categories.

In Tapestry, enter a decorated Christmas tree or a scrapbook page. Tapestry also hosts the photography contest, so get your Annie Liebovitz on and start snapping.

Remember: different contests/competitions have different deadlines. So, hurry up! Enter already! Betcha’ my blue ribbon’s bigger than yours!

Keep checking back for more news on the 2011 L.A. County Fair.