Static Exhibits

General Static Exhibitors 

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  4-H Project Area Guide

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  4-H Project Goals (Samples)

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  Goal Writing for Fair Projects

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  Goal Sheet Form

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  4-H Exhibit Goal Card

 

Preparing for Fair

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  Helpful Resources for County Fair Projects
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  Preparing Youth for the Fair

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  Exhibit Judging Experience

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  What is the Judge looking for?

 

Source Citing 

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  Pinterest to Original Source Citing
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  Pinterest to Original Source in 3 Steps

 

 Elements & Principles of Design 

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  Exploring Elements & Principles
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  Design: Exploring the Elements and Principles in Clothing Brochure
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  Exploring Elements & Principles of Home Decor

Photography 

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  Photography Label Word

Food & Nutrition 

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  Food for Iowa 4-H Fair

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  Preserved Food Label
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  Canning Fruits Guide

• Food Safety for Iowa 4-H fairs 

 

Horticulture 

• Horticulture Project Ideas 

Poster Communication Project 

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  Poster Communication Report Form
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  Poster Communication Rules

 

 

 

Awardrobe Clothing Events

4-Her's, Consider entering a Fashion Revue, $15 Challenge or Fashion Revue and get on the runway at the Iowa State Fair!

Awardrobe Information from the State 

 

 

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Junior Awardrobe Form

 

Tips for Fashion and $20 Challenge: 

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  Environmental Fashion
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  $15 Challenge
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  Writing a Clothing Commentary
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  Design: Exploring the Elements and Principles in Clothing Brochure
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  Awardrobe Clothing Report Form - Senior

 

 

Communication Events 

Communication - Working Exhibits 

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Communications - Working Exhibits! What are they?

 

 

 

 

Livestock Exhibits 

General Livestock Exhibitors 

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  4H202 Animal Identification, Weighing, and Exhibiting Requirements for County, State, and Interstate Shows
• 4-H Project Areas  ( Tip sheets and Hot sheets can be found here!) 
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  Animal ID Help Sheet
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  Lease Agreement

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All 4-H/FFA animal exhibitors (4th-12th grade) must be certified in YQCA, except those exhibiting only horse, pet, and/or dog. This is required of exhibitors at county and state fair.  Must be completed by July 1, 2021 www.yqcaprogram.org

Beef

• Drug Affidavits are required for all beef animals at fair. Remember to record all treatments given to your animals. 
• Breeding Beef must be ID'd in 4hOnline by May 15th. If you originally weighed your' heifer in as a market heifer, the animal does NOT need to be ID'd again in 4hOnline as a breeding heifer. It just needs to be entered correctly on Fairentry. All heifers MUST have birth date listed. All heifers will need tattoos in 4hOnline to be eligible for the state fair plus one of the following: registration #, calfhood vaccination #, or 4-H ear tag - registered heifers must have registration number listed. 
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  Beef Weigh-In Reminders 2022
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  Market Beef Drug Affidavit

Horse

• 4hOnline ID required by May 15th 
• You must upload photos of each horse and Registration papers in 4hOnline
• Leased horses MUST have completed lease form uploaded into 4hOnline 
• Halter Class horses must be owned 
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  Equine Show Rules and Regulations
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  Horse Drug Affidavit

• Horse and Pony ID Form 

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  Lease Agreement

Sheep and Meat Goat 

• Drug Affidavits are required for all sheep and meat goat at fair. Remember to record all treatments given to your animals
• All market lambs, commercial breeding ewes, and state fair sheep, as well as all market meat goats, state fair meat goats, and breeding does does must attend weigh-in
• Breeding does with tattoos do not need a 4-H tag but can put one in if preferred. Birth dates are required for all breeding does. Please bring birth date information at weigh-in for those attending. 
• All state fair sheep and meat goat need to attend weigh-in to be retinal imaged for eligibilty
• ID animals in 4hOnline by May 15
• All sexually intact sheep and goats must have scrapies tag in the ear by fair time. 
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  Meat Goat Drug Affidavits

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  Meat Goat ID Form

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  Sheep Drug Affidavit

Swine

• If you are a new swine exhibitor, you will need to a Premise ID#. Contact the office for help.
• Drug Affidavits are required for all swine at fair. Remember to record all treatments given to your animals. 
• Breeding gilts must be ID'd in 4hOnline by May 15th
• You do NOT need to a show market or derby hog in order to show breeding gilts
• Ear notches are required for all pigs 
• State Fair Pigs: DNA punch tags are required. The deadline to identify these pigs is May 15th.
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  Swine Drug Affidavit
• Premise Id Information 

Poultry 

• 4hOnline ID required May 15th
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  Broiler Chicken Project

• Broiler Chicken Project Video 

Dairy

• 4hOnline ID required by May 15th 
• Dairy and Dairy Goat ID Form 

Pets

• 4hOnline ID required by May 15th 
• Dogs and cats must have rabies vaccination records at fair 
• Dog ID Form

Rabbit

• 4hOnline ID required by May 15th
• Tattoos required before fair
• State fair requires it in the left ear 
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  Rabbit ID Form

 

 

Foods for Iowa 4-H Fair Guide 

Foods for Iowa 4-H Fair Link

Plan ahead for a successful fair experience. Use these guidelines to help select an acceptable product for exhibit, find an approved recipe source, and identify the appropriate preparation method.

Foods for Iowa 4-H Fairs - Quick Reference Guide (2023)

This replaces 4H 3023 - Inappropriate Food Exhibits For Iowa 4-H Fairs.

If you have the permalink linked on your website, it will automatically take your families to the updated version (versus having the old PDF version linked on your website). Permalink for this product: https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/6434

Difference of the 01/2022 version and the 12/2022 version:

Maple Syrup

in the notes section, they updated the resource link

 

Frosting and Glazes

under acceptable examples, they changed the traditional buttercream (butter, sugar, flavoring, liquid) to traditional vanilla buttercream (butter, powdered sugar, extract, milk) under acceptable examples, Glazes made with powdered sugar and water only (added “only”) under unacceptable examples, removed the word “traditional” for German chocolate frosting made from scratch under unacceptable examples, it is now fresh juice or zest (added “zest”)

Cakes

carrot is now listed as an unacceptable exhibit (and therefore, they removed the specification for carrot cakes in the method notes) added under method notes: “no baking in metal cans”

Cookies and Bars

lemon bars are now listed as an unacceptable exhibit

Quick Breads

added under method notes: “no baking in metal cans”

Pies

ALL pecan pies are now listed as an unacceptable exhibit (previously, traditional pecan pie was listed as acceptable)