Mary Poppins

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The Competitions

The Great Nanny Race

Sign up from 10 am

The ever-popular Great Nanny Race returns, be the first to get your baby and carriage across the finish line.

Age Groups

Mini (8 Years and Under)

Junior (9 years to 15 Years)

Big Kids (16 years & Over)

Heats will be run in age groups with the ultimate champion winning a prize

Sign up on the day at the Race Precinct on Richmond Street

THE RULES

Each participant pushes their pram along the road until they cross the finish line with their ‘charges’ undisturbed. Participants may not run, push, or cross in front of other competitors – doing so will exact consequences.

Participant must not start racing until the start bell/ call. The race is not over until everyone crosses the finish line.

  • No sticking with hat pins
  • Or poking with umbrellas
  • No sledging
  • Your charge must stay in the pram at all times.

The Chimney Sweep Challenge

Sign up from 11.15 am

Do you have what it takes to clean your chimney the fastest? Heat will be run in age groups with the ultimate champion winning a prize.

Age Groups

Mini (8 Years and Under)

Junior (9 years to 15 Years)

Big Kids (16 years & Over)

Sign up on the day at the Race Precinct on Richmond Street.

THE RULES

Each participant collects a bucket and a balloon and quickly travels towards their designated chimney. Along the way participants need to collect all three pieces of their ‘Sweep Brushes’ and assemble them in preparation for the next stage of the challenge. Once at the Chimney with a completed brush in hand, participants will aim to push their balloon

through the chimney pipes – with the aid of their personal Chimney Sweep Assistant.

Once the balloon is pushed out the chimney top, the competitor needs to get back to the start line and finish up with a heel click. Participants are advised to take caution whilst running and are not to push others, cross in front of other competitors and certainly no mean-spirited sledging. Participants must not start racing until the start bell/ call. The race is not over until everyone crosses the finish line and finishes their heel clicks.

  • Be careful – running up the track particularly whilst holding your brushes can be dangerous!
  • No pushing or shoving.
  • No crossing in front of other competitors
  • The balloon must stay in your bucket whilst you make your way to the chimney.
  • The race isn’t over until you complete a heel click at the end!

The Costume Competition

Assembly from 12.30pm

Let your creativity shine through the Mary Poppins Festival Costume Competition this year and bring Maryborough’s streets to life with the categories:

  • Named Characters from Poppins-verse (think Mary, Jane, Bert, Uncle Albert, Admiral Boom)
  • Children’s Category (Children under 14, any costume)
  • Poppins Characters – anyone from the Poppins-verse (think Chimney Sweep, Penguin, Suffragette)
  • Auxiliary Category – Costume from anywhere else in time!

Now is the time to start preparing your wardrobe! Sign up on the day from 12.30pm

 

Judging Process

All category entrants will line up spaced down the Richmond Street precinct ‘green’.

Each entrant will be asked to do three (3) poses that best show off their costumes and character!

Once each costume category has completed their adjudication, a winner from that category will be announced.

Judging Criteria

  • Storytelling
  • Authenticity
  • Originality/ Creativity
  • Effort
  • Characterisation

Rules

  • You may enter only one category – so choose wisely!

No inappropriate slogans or references

Colouring Competition

Submit before 30/05/2023

Colour your own masterpiece and be part of the Mary Poppins Festival

Categories:

  1. Daycare aged children
  2. Lower-Primary (Grade 1-4)
  3. Upper primary to early high school (Grade 5-8)

How to enter

  1. Choose your artwork to colour
  2. Download & print make sure to get the back as well!
  3. Colour!
  4. Fill out the details on the back.
  5. Deliver to Visitor Information Centre in Hervey Bay (227 Maryborough Hervey Bay Rd, Urraween QLD 4655), Maryborough (388 Kent St, Maryborough QLD 4650) or Tiaro (Mayne St, Tiaro QLD 4650) before 30/05/2023