CREATIVE youngsters across the county are being invited to model their favourite celebrities - in the form of a potato.
Staff at the Old Barn Nursery and Garden Centre in Dial Post are challenging kids to use the popular vegetable to create weird and wacky version of famous figures.
It comes as part of the centre's 'grow your own potatoes' scheme which launches lat
er in March.
Mig Ammolla, manager of the garden centre, said: "The competition is part of our Grow Your Own Potatoes event, which runs from Saturday, March 20 until Sunday, March 28.
"It is a fun idea and we hope as many youngsters as possible enter. We will have the models on display in the garden centre and will ask customers to vote for their favourites via a ballot box.
"Although we don't have any hard and fast rules we are looking for models of famous people such as politicians and pop stars."
Children aged from four to eleven can enter the competition and entry forms are available from Old Barn Nursery and Garden Centre.
Forms can also be completed in-store when models are handed in to be displayed.
And Mig added: "The rules are very simple. There are two age categories: four to seven-years-old and eight to eleven-years-old. Any shape or size potato can be entered and any other products can be used to enhance the appearance of the potato."
The first prize-winners in each age category will receive a certificate and a £5 gift voucher to spend at the garden centre.
Each winner's school will receive a WCF Phoenix bag of seed potatoes, a Burgon & Ball triple pack round potato planter and a Miracle-Gro Organic Choice potato & vegetable gro-sac to fill the potato planters.
The runner up in each age category will also receive a certificate.
