What to bring:

• Your awesome project(s)! Label each item: with your name, club, and county. If the exhibit has multiple pieces, each part needs to be labeled and should indicate 1 of 4, 2 of 4, etc.

Project ideas and requirements listed in the 2025 Premium Book. 

• Water bottle to stay hydrated; maybe some snacks too if you need. (We’ll have extras just in case.)

• Activities to keep you busy while you wait (we'll have activities for you as well).

Get ready for your judging experience!

• Practice answering questions. Check-out our Showcase Dashboard pages like Preparing for Judging to review various questions the judge might ask you during your judging time.
  
  

• Ribbons. All 4-H exhibitors will receive a ribbon for each project (white, red, blue, green). These can be taken home that day. Competitive awards and ribbons like purple, Champion and Reserve Champion ribbons, and State Fair trips will be announced later this weekend.  Don’t forget your ribbon placing also comes with a monetary award-- more info on Ribbons & Premiums here. Come back & visit the Hennepin County Fair throughout the week to see if you won a higher ribbon or a State Fair trip.

While you’re here on Entry Day…

• Grab an Entry Day Bingo Card and complete it to win a prize!

• Help design the next Hennepin County 4-H shirt. We’ll vote on our favorites on Sunday when we all return! 

• Create a plastic sculpture from used/recycled plastic and have the chance to have your project put on display at the State Fair with the Plastic Sculpture Challenge. 

4-H Project pick-up & State Fair Registration info: Sunday, June 20th, 2021 

• State Fair Trips, Orientation, and Registration. State Fair Trips will be announced on Thursday June 12th via email, on the Hennepin County 4-H Showcase Dashboard, as well as on our State Fair Trip board in the 4-H Tent. State Fair trips for general projects are awarded to 4-H’ers, 6th grade and up. If you are awarded a State Fair Trip, plan to join us at the 4-H Tent for State Fair Registration and paperwork support on the last day of fair, Saturday June 14th. State Fair trips will need to be claimed by 5pm on Saturday June 14th.

• Project pick-up. 4-H projects must stay at the Hennepin County Fair until Saturday June 14th at 9:00pm when the fair closes on the final day. This is a very important rule we ask all families to follow -- it’s in our contract with the Hennepin County Fair Board. Projects can be picked up the following ways:

  1. Projects can be taken home from the fairgrounds starting at 9:00 PM following the closing of the fair, Saturday June 14th. 

  2. Projects can be taken home from the fairgrounds from 9am-10am Sunday June 15th (the day after fair).

  3. Projects left behind after Sunday will be taken back to our Extension Office by 4-H Staff. You will be notified to make arrangements for pick-up.

  4. Please reach out to our 4-H Extension Staff contacts if you have any questions or concerns about these pickup options.

• Premium Checks. For each project that a 4-H’er or 4-H Club enters at the Fair, a specific amount of money is awarded by the Fair Board based on their respective ribbon placing. Premium checks will be distributed at project pick-up on Sunday, June 15th.