Gingerbread Competition – Voting for the Children’s Category

1) Handmade paper -cabin (8 y). On my way to school, I walk past the Tervakoski paper mill. This building has stuck in my mind since I heard about this competition; I immediately knew which building I wanted to create.
2) Vähikkälä school (13 y). Vähikkälä school is the oldest school in Janakkala. It is about 144 years old, a yellow log building.
3) Tervakoski church (11 y).
4) Water monsters/Tervakoski swimming hall (8 y). I like the swimming hall. It’s fun to go there. My best friend and I are terrible water monsters. It’s really important to me that I can swim in summer and winter, even every day.
5) Lastujärvi Kota (10 y). The lynx hangs out at Lastujärvi Kota in winter.
6) Vähikkälä community house (12 y). I chose the Vähikkälä community house because it’s a familiar place to me. I have helped organize the Vähikkälä Heinäpäivät there, and we go there for physical education with the school. School celebrations also take place at the community house. I have participated in many other events, hobbies, and celebrations there.
7) Dream Vähikkälä school (9 y). I chose Vähikkälä school because I go to that school, and it is a nice and fun school. It’s nice to attend school there. I added horses to my work because they are my favorite animals, and it would be nice if there were also animals at school. I also included Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a Christmas tree, and a gingerbread table in my work, as they relate to Christmas.
8) Puppies on the roadside. Signs found in Janakkala’s traffic.
9) St. Lawrence Church (12 y).
10) Tervakoski hedgehog. The octagonal building, called a hedgehog, built in the 1860s is the oldest of the current factory buildings. It was originally built as a water purification plant and has also served as a fire station.
11) Janakkala library bus (9 y).
12) St. Lawrence Church.
13) Mr. Lynx’s house (12 y). I came up with the idea for this thinking that the lynx of Janakkala should also have its own house.
14) Funland (8-11 y). The work depicts the most important things for the creators in Funland, Funbear, water slides, and the racetrack. Plus, some other decorations.
15) Turenki railway station (14 y). A winter railway station, with a lynx on the roof in accordance with the Janakkala coat of arms.
16) Tanttala school (13 y). Tanttala school is a small village school built in 1939 with about 30 students in Tanttala village.