01/12/2023
We would love to see your seed art at the Kansas State Fair!
****SEED ART KITS NOW AVAILABLE!****
Calling all crafty crop artists! It's that time of year to get your Seed Art Kit! It has everything you need to create a "seed"-sational work of art!
Kits include:
1 Instructional Booklet
1 5x7 Canvas
1 Paint Brush
5 Toothpicks
1 Bottle of Glue
5 Bags of Seeds
5 Design Ideas
Kits can be purchased through the Kansas State Fair Office at 2000 N. Poplar, Hutchinson, KS 67502 for $8. You may pick up, or for a $10 shipping fee, we will ship the kit to you.
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Premiums awarded for Classes 1 & 2 are 1st - $15, 2nd - $10, 3rd - $5. Class 3, Ribbons only.
In addition to the general and agricultural rules, the following rules apply to this division.
🏵Seeds, stems, head or panicles, and fruiting bodies or structures of oats, wheat barley, flax, rye, corn, amaranth, canola, lentils, popcorn, decorative corn, soybeans, edible field beans, sunflowers, common buckwheat, field pea, millet, safflower, sorghum, sugar beet, sudangrass, common forage grasses, clovers, alfalfa, wild rice and all poppy seeds. Crop plants shall be those specimens grown in Kansas.
🏵Entries should be interesting creations made with seed corn and or corn cobs. Up to (12) twelve ears of any variety or combination of variety may be used in total. The corn or corn cobs may be carved, painted, glued or strung in any manner and mounted on any plain surface. Seeds and dried fruiting structures from any horticultural crop grown in Kansas are allowed. Forest, trees or shrub plants are allowed. W**d seeds or plants are not permitted.
🏵Suitable backgrounds may be plywood, canvas board, heavy mat board, and paneling.
🏵Exhibitor is required to list, by name, all items used by constructing a “legend” on a 4” x 6” card with identifying seeds.
🏵Maximum size of exhibit is 16” x 20”
🏵Search crop art on the internet and YouTube for inspiration.
🏵Theme: A day on the farm.
Class
1. Crop Art - Adults - *Must be age 18 after Jan.1, current year.
2. Crop Art – Youth - *Must be under the age of 18 before Jan 1, current year
3. Crop Art – Kit (purchased through the Kansas State Fair).
Artwork may be entered for the 2023 Fair from June 1 - August 1 by going to www.kansasstatefair.com or by calling 620-669-3621. Please contact the Competitive Department with any questions at the above number.
Sponsored by the Kansas Soil health Alliance
