2024 Thurston County Fair Open Class Home Arts Department
🎉Exciting new opportunities for Youth in 2024!!! 👀
👉Open Class Home Arts Department is introducing a new class under Beverages Division (L) for non-alcoholic soda beverages!
👉A Youth-Only class in the new Kitchen Arts Division (X) includes opportunities for youth to enter homemade doughs, slime, crystals, wave bottles, and other fun kitchen-art projects. Recipes for such projects can be found online.
👉The new Division X - Kitchen Arts - includes many types of projects interesting to prospective youth exhibitors:
- Decorated Cakes, Cupcakes, Cookies, and structures such as gingerbread houses or barns
- Dry Mixes-in-a-Jar such as cookie and cake mixes, cocoa mix, and soup mixes. Recipes for these dry mixes can be found online.
- Fancy Appetizers, Garnishes, and Snacks challenges exhibitors to present foods in fancy ways, use science to create fruit and vegetable garnishes, and show creative special-occasion snacks.
- Soaps, Bath, and Body Products: making soaps, bath bombs, and lip gloss are just a few examples of projects that can be entered into this category.
- Kitchen Concoctions include play doughs, slime, crystals, lava bottles, wave bottles, snow globes, and similar projects.
New categories from 2023 are back for 2024:
Upcycle by re-using cloth and other materials! Both the Quilting and Sewing Divisions have new Classes for people to enter projects that contain upcycled (recycled, reused, salvaged) materials.Costumes! The Home Arts Department hopes to see costumes for adults, children, even pets!!!
Bands and braids (Class 2 in the Fiber Arts Division) provides opportunity to enter these unique fiber art projects.
Fiber Sculpture and Basketry (Class 3 under Fiber Arts Division) encourages traditional and new forms of three-dimensional art using natural (e.g., animal or plant fiber) and non-natural (manmade fibers or wire) materials.
New Quilt Size Categories for 2024!
Quilt sizes are now Lots under Division G – Quilting. Quilts are sized by measuring across the top (“width”) and down one side (“height”), then adding those numbers together. All measurements are in inches.
Division G Quilt Sizes for 2024 are as follows:
Refer to the Exhibitor Guide for more information & details for entering exhibits.