Do you have a green thumb or want to find out? Join our feel-good, plant-growing competition and show off your blooming skills at the Arizona State Fair!
Whether your plant grows tall, wild, weird, or wonderfully wacky, we want to see it!
Here’s how it works:
1. Pick up a free tin bucket and plant starter from Guest Services (2nd floor of the Coliseum) between July 21 – 25 (from 8am-4pm)
2.. Take it home, give it some TLC, and watch it grow.
3. Make sure you full out the Entries form. Enter here and and mail or email it back to us.
4. Bring it back during Fair receiving time on September 12 (10am-7pm) or September 13 (10am – 3pm)
Fun prize categories include:
🌱 Tallest Plant
🌱 Shortest but Mightiest
🌱 Bushiest Beauty
🌱 Healthiest Glow
🌱 Most Unique (shape, growth pattern, or pot decor)
🌱 Best Decorated Bucket
🌱 Judge’s Favorite – “The Happiness Award”
🌱 Bonus Division: Send us your plant’s glow-up!
Email a pic or two of your growing journey to [email protected] and be featured in our “Happiness Garden” slideshow at the Fair.
Can’t make it in-person and want to participate? We’ll mail you a Grow Happiness Seed Kit! Fill out THIS FORM.
Open to all ages- kids, adults, classrooms, families!
Let’s grow joy, one little plant at a time.