Enter the fair
Show off your best: from preserves to Lego, quilts to livestock. There are over 800 classes to choose from.
Exhibits Entries are closed for 2026
Enter in sections including:
- Fruit and vegetables
- Home preserving
- Wine and beer
- Eggs and honey
- Home baking
- Flowers and potted plants
- Arts and crafts
- Needlework
- Poultry and livestock
- Photography
- Student classes
- Woodwork and metalcraft
- Grain and forage
- Wildcrafting
- Lego
How to enter
Step 1: Read the entry booklet
It lists every class, the rules and the prizes.
Step 2: Enter online or on paper
Enter online, or fill in the paper entry form.
Online entry is closed
Step 3: Bring your exhibits
Bring everything to Creston Flats Stables on Thursday, September 10, between 6 pm and 8 pm.
Late exhibits are marked “For Display Only” and are not judged. Please leave the grounds right after dropping off.
Livestock show Entries are closed for 2026
Classes include Chore Horse, Log Skid, Driving Horse and the Livestock Costume Contest.
Every entrant must sign a waiver. You can read about each class on the Things to Do page.
Prize results
See who won ribbons in every section, and the Best in Show winners.
Contests Entries are closed for 2026
Open to everyone, including community groups and businesses.
Scarecrow Contest
- Entry
- $5
- Prize
- $25 for the best scarecrow
Make a free-standing scarecrow about 5 feet tall. Scarecrows are displayed at the fairgrounds.
Drop off: Thursday, September 10, between 6 pm and 8 pm.
Pick up: Sunday, September 13, between 8 am and 10 am.
Giant Pumpkin Contest
- Entry
- $5
- Prize
- Special prize
Grow a giant pumpkin; it is judged by weight. Bring it on a pallet. Pumpkins are displayed at the fairgrounds.
Drop off: Thursday, September 10, between 6 pm and 8 pm.
Pick up: Sunday, September 13, between 8 am and 10 am.
Storefront Window Contest
- Entry
- Free
- Prize
- Special ribbon and recognition
For Creston businesses. Decorate your window to fit the fair’s theme, “Rhinestone Cowboy”. Judged on colour, originality and the theme.
Displays must be up by August 17 and stay up through the fair.
Enter a contest online or on the paper entry form.

