Photo: #What are they judging? Click the photo to reveal the answer.
Photo: #ANSWER: DOLLS & TOYS. Fine details like individually painted eye-lashes can separate one doll from another.
Photo: #Hand-crafted clothing in the Dolls & Toys category waiting to be judged in the Creative Activities building.
Photo: #Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Blue Ribbon winner of the Storybook Character category of the Dolls & Toys competition in the Creative Activities building.
Photo: #State Fair Dolls & Toys Judge Marilyn Curtis displaying some of the fine needlework and embroidery detail found on a Blue Ribbon-winning entry in the Storybook Character category.

What are they judging?

Day one: What are they judging?


For some, the Minnesota State Fair is all about competition. Every weekday during the fair, All Things Considered is asking: "What are they judging?"

Read or listen to the judge describing what they look for in a winner, and then try and guess what it is. Click on the picture to the right to reveal what they're judging.

What today's judge is looking for:

- "Creativity"

- It's "subjective"

- Color and beauty

- Very well molded

- Well stuffed and not floppy

- No sloppy stiching

- All seams are even and beautifully finished

- Personality

What's being judged?

(MPR producers Sam Choo and Sarah Boden contributed to this project.)

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