Attention people! You have until November 28 to get your gingerbread entry form filled out and turned in to the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. The conservatory's judges will evaluate entries on overall appearance, originality/creativity, difficulty, precision, and consistency of theme.
Now, here's the cool thing. Categories include Youth/A house from your favorite book, movie or game; Family/Your family home; Adult/A garden structure; and Professional/Inspired by nature.
Specially themed gingerbread structures are always attention-grabbers. Have you ever crafted a gingerbread house for which you made anything and everything you had ever seen and admired in the way of decorations? And then, in the end, all you had was a hodge-podge of color and candy, with no consistency, plan or focal point?
Do what makes you happy, but if you want to impress the judges in a gingerbread house contest, pick a theme and stick with it all the way through. Your theme may be a simple color scheme, an artistic statement, a recreation of a well-known structure, or just about anything else you can conjure up. I'd love to see the "Inspired by nature" entries that make their way to the Franklin Park Conservatory, a botanical showplace, this holiday season. (Photo below courtesy Franklin Park Conservatory.)
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