Enter the America’s Kids building in 2008 and you’ll enter a world of discovery, imagination, and adventure…

“Wild Things.”

Through the magical combination of science and imagination, young fairguests will rediscover the “Wild Things” from their own backyard.
Click here for more 2008 exhibit info.

America’s Kids
Contests and Competitions
Come and be a part of the America’s Kids tradition by entering a project in the Fair.
You could win a ribbon, gift card, or other special prize…and have your work displayed in the America’s Kids building for everyone to see! Join the fun! Make cool stuff during the summer and enter it into America’s Kids!

Information to get you started
Rules and Entry Information Please read all the rules.
Entry Form Download the entry form and mail it to us by August 1, 2008. All entries must be postmarked by that date.
Click here to print ALL Contests & Competitions for 2008!

Featured Competitions
Decorate a Butterfly
Create the most beautiful butterfly you can imagine! This is more than a coloring contest…it’s a  decorating contest! You can use paint, markers, glitter, sequins, puff paint, jewels, buttons, feathers, or just about anything you can dream up. Let your imagination go wild! See your butterfly on display in The BIG Backyard.

Decorate a Butterfly

“Wild Things” 2008
Check out the specially themed competitions added this year:
Sock Monsters

Adventure Vest

My Favorite Backyard Adventure

Build an Ant

Wild Animal Hats Fashion Show

Culinary Creations
Enter your favorite Culinary Creations and win great prizes! There are lots of cool contests to stretch your imagination and your culinary skills!

Preserved Foods
Cupcake Contest
Oatmeal Cookie Contest
Cookie Jar
Holiday Contest
Creative Cake Contest
Pie Contest
Cooking/Baking Contest

Fun in Agriculture
Grow the largest or smallest sunflower or pumpkin, create a dish garden, or make a rainforest in a jar. Enter one of these competitions and you could win a blue ribbon. All entries will be displayed
in the Farmer’s Market in FairView Farms.

Vegetable Gardening
Dish Gardens and Rainforest in a Jar

Sunflower Gardening

Pumpkin Patch

Harvest Celebration

Get ready for the fall harvest with these fall-inspired competitions. Make a corn husk doll, scarecrow, or other fall craft…just in time for Autumn.

Corn Husk Dolls
Harvest Time Crafts
Scarecrows

Family Fun Days
Who has the most talented or artistic family at the 2008 L.A. County Fair? Which family can create the best Pumpkin Boat? Enter one of our Family Fun Day competitions and get the whole family involved in something creative.

Family Portrait Painting
Pumpkin Boats
Family Talent Show
Pumpkin Decorating Contest

“Sew” Exciting!
Show off your skills by entering one of our traditional sewing and needlecraft competitions or choose one of the new “Wild Things” categories.
Traditional Competitions:
Sewing: clothing & accessories
Needlework: cross stitch
Embroidery & Needlepoint

“Wild Things” 2008:
Sock Monsters
Adventure Vest
Redesign a T-Shirt

Knitting and Crochet
Learn to make a knitted scarf during the Fair at one of our knitting parties just for kids in The Village on Broadway/Tapestry exhibit. Make a scarf at the 2008 Fair and enter it into our knitting competition in 2009.
Knitting & Crochet

Quilting
America’s Kids recognizes and supports young quilters who practice and excel in the art of quilting. Make a quilt and enter it into our America’s Kids Quilt Show and you could win your very own sewing machine!

America’s Kids Quilt Show

“Wild Animal Hats”
Kids Fashion Show
Imagine yourself as one of your favorite animals by making and modeling a “Wild Animal Hat.” Turn an ordinary hat into a wild animal that you can wear in our Kids Fashion Show. Your hat can be as big and elaborate or as small and simple as you’d like.
Kids Fashion Show Contest

Artist’s Inspiration

Do you like to draw, paint, or color? Enter your best work in our art competition open to children of all ages. Sweepstakes winners will be invited to attend a special awards ceremony.
Art Competition
Sunflower and Dragonfly coloring contest

Hoofprints: Horse Coloring Contest

Photography
Love taking pictures? See your photos on display in the Art Museum in America’s Kids. Sweepstakes winners will be invited to attend a special awards ceremony.

Photography Competition

Crafts
Be sure to check out the new “Build an Ant” competition added just for “Wild Things” 2008. Put a “Wild Things” theme spin on your craft entry and you could receive a special ribbon for Outstanding Use of Theme.
Crafts

Models
Build an Ant

Ceramics

Beginner and advanced ceramic lovers are invited to enter their handmade fired ceramics into this competition.
Fired Ceramics Competition

Book Jacket Art & Writing Contest
Create a handmade book jacket for a real or imaginary book. Include your own hand drawn art and wording.

Book Jacket Competition

Write a story about your favorite backyard or at-home
adventure and you could win a bookstore gift card.
Writing Competition

Celebrating Scouts
Check out the new categories added this year just for Scouts.
Boy and Girl Scouts
Campfire Girls and Boys
Our Troop’s Favorite Service Project

Toy Assembly
Enter your favorite creation built with one of these classic building toys.
Lego
K’NEX

Hobby Collections
Do you collect postcards, baseball cards, rocks, stamps, stuffed animals, or other cool stuff? Be
sure to enter it into this fun competition. Space is

limited so sign up early!
Hobby Collections

Woodworking
Enter your bookends, furniture, models, Woodcarving, or other woodworking item in this competition. (for wooden birdhouses, see Crafts)
Woodworking

Educational Panels
Create an Educational Panel that shows the processes and results of any science project.
Educational Panels

Read to Ride
Read stories and ride the rides at the L.A. County Fair. Bring your entry form to the America’s Kids exhibit in Building 10 during the Fair and get free ride vouchers.
Information & Entry Form

Special Award
Kids can receive special ribbons for “Outstanding Use of Theme.” These ribbons can be given in any competition, regardless of the place that the entry receives. So create an entry that follows our “Wild Things” theme and you could be a winner.