More than 150 Gingerbread Festival entries on display at Westfield Sarasota Square Mall.
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Amanda Morales
| 1:29 a.m. December 13, 2015
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Gingerbread rooftops coated with icing and every imaginable candy were on display in the Gingerbread Village throughout the weekend.
The Community Youth Development annual Gingerbread Festival included more than 150 confectionary creations from local schools and organizations.
Participants were given the same gingerbread kit with four walls, two roof pieces and a snowman, a gingerbread man and a tree. Designs ranged from traditional houses to more elaborate tree houses and even some ideas that were out of this world.
Entries were available to purchase to take home and have on display for holiday parties and events.
This entry was from Seaward Crossfit.
The Suncoast Campaign for Grade Level Reading entry.
This Monet cottage entry from Pine View School was inspired by artwork.
The Booker High School Key Club gingerbread house festival entry.
Addison Bastow's favorite gingerbread house was the Bay Haven School of Basic's Plus entry.
Bay Haven Elementary was represented by Joyce Barnett's Fun First Graders.
Shannon and her sister Sarah McGuire with the Riverview High School Papillon Club Mentees entry.
The Tatum Ridge Elementary entry from Rachel Chappel's Third Grade Class tied for third place in the elementary school category. The entry is an interpretation of life for members of the Seminole tribe.
Mattison's ornate gingerbread tree house.
Simonetta Nigri with entry from her mother Marsha's class.
The Pine View School 6th Grade Student Astronauts entry won first place in the middle school category.
Patty Paige, Addison Barstow and Erin Noe browse the gingerbread houses.
This surreal gingerbread house was designed by Pine View School Empower U.
The entry by ACT/Suncoast Technical College entry called "Markovich's Minions.
All Faiths Food Bank designed a tree house and took home the prize for second place in the corporate category.
Leah Lapham's second grade class at Ashton Elementary School tied for third place in the elementary school category.
The Circus Arts Conservatory design went beyond the box-shaped gingerbread house and incorporated its circus roots.
Santa's sled is led by a pack of elephants on the Circus Arts Conservatory gingerbread house.
Girls Inc. of Sarasota County submitted this Christmas in Oz entry.
The Girls Inc. Munchkinland entry won first place in the elementary school category.
The Girls Inc. Munchkinland entry won first place in the elementary school category.
North Port High School True Colors GSA entry won third place in the high school category.
The Robert and Joan Lee Boys & Girls Club entry took home the second place prize for the high school category.
The third place entry from SKY Academy from Lara LoBosco's 7th Grade Period 5.
The Suncoast Campaign for Grade Level Reading entry.
