Snowmen on Main 2026 Participant Application

Bring your creativity to Downtown Loganville this holiday season with Snowmen on Main! Businesses, schools, churches, civic groups, nonprofits, families, and individuals are invited to create unique snowman displays that will be featured throughout downtown during the holiday season. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase their creativity, take part in a friendly community-wide competition, and help spread Christmas cheer to local children through a special holiday toy drive.

Snowmen will be on display beginning November 28 during Loganville’s Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting and throughout December. Whether you have a fun theme in mind or an imaginative design ready to bring to life, we invite you to join us in making Downtown Loganville a little more magical this holiday season.

Complete the application below to reserve your spot and be part of Snowmen on Main!

1. Eligibility & Participation

Snowmen on Main is open to businesses, nonprofit organizations, schools and school groups, churches and faith-based organizations, civic groups, community organizations, families, and individual community members.

Businesses and organizations that serve the Loganville community are welcome to participate, even if their physical or mailing address is outside the city limits. Families and individual community members participating independently must have a Loganville address

Participation is free. Each participant, business, organization, family, or group may submit one entry. An entry may include multiple snowmen, provided the entire display fits within the assigned display area and meets all size, safety, and placement requirements.

2. Snowman Locations & Placement

The City of Loganville will assign display locations for participating entries.

Downtown businesses are encouraged to display their snowman in front of their business, provided the location is approved by the City. Displays must not obstruct sidewalks, entrances, pedestrian access, accessibility routes, or other public areas.

Participants who do not have an approved business location in Downtown Loganville will receive a city-assigned display location.

The City reserves the right to make final placement decisions and to relocate displays when necessary for safety, accessibility, maintenance, or downtown event operations

3. Size Requirements

Each entry must fit within a maximum display area of 5 feet wide by 5 feet deep and may not exceed 6 feet in height. Entries may include multiple snowmen and decorative elements, provided the entire display remains within the assigned space.

4. Construction & Safety

Snowmen must be handmade, with the snowman serving as the primary feature of the display. Commercially purchased costumes, props, decorations, and accessories may be incorporated into the design; however, a commercially purchased snowman may not serve as the primary display.

All materials must be durable and securely attached to withstand normal outdoor weather conditions. Displays must be securely weighted or stabilized. Sandbags, weighted bases, and similar surface-level stabilization methods may be used.

Stakes, spikes, or poles may not be driven into the ground, concrete, sidewalks, or other hardscape. Displays may not contain sharp or exposed edges, glass, hazardous materials, or other items that could create a safety hazard.

Nothing may be attached to trees, benches, lampposts, signs, or other City property without specific approval from the City.

5. Perishable & Living Materials

Live plants, perishable materials, and natural items that may spoil, decay, or create a safety concern are not permitted. All decorative materials must be suitable for an outdoor public display throughout the holiday season.

6. Lighting

Battery-operated and solar-powered lights are permitted. Access to City electrical outlets will not be provided.

7. Content & Appearance

Snowman displays should be creative, festive, and appropriate for a family-friendly community event. Displays must be in good taste and may not be excessively frightening, obscene, discriminatory, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate for public viewing.

Political campaign signs, election-related messaging, political endorsements, partisan campaign materials, and displays reflecting controversial political or social issues are prohibited.

The City of Loganville reserves the right to deny an entry or require modification or removal of any display deemed offensive, inappropriate, unsafe, or inconsistent with the family-friendly nature of Snowmen on Main.

8. Installation

The installation period is November 20–27, 2026. 

Participants may install their displays at their assigned locations during this period. Friday, November 27, 2026, is the final installation day. All displays must be fully installed, securely stabilized, and ready for public viewing by the end of that day.

Participants are responsible for transporting, installing, and securing their own displays.

9. Maintenance & Display Conditions

The City of Loganville is not responsible for maintaining individual snowman displays.

Participants are responsible for inspecting and maintaining their displays throughout the display period. Participants should periodically check their displays and make any necessary repairs or replacements due to weather, wind, rain, vandalism, normal wear, or other causes.

Displays must remain presentable throughout the entire display period.

Failure to properly maintain a display may result in disqualification from the contest and/or removal of the display by the City.

If a display becomes unsafe, substantially damaged, obstructs pedestrian access, or creates another public safety or maintenance concern, the City reserves the right to remove it.

Participants understand that displays will be located outdoors in public areas and may be exposed to weather, vandalism, theft, and normal wear and tear.

10. Voting & Judging

Snowmen on Main features two awards: the People's Choice Award, determined by community voting and toy donations, and the Mayor's Choice Award, selected by the Mayor of Loganville.

People's Choice Award: Facebook Voting

• Photos of all eligible snowman displays will be posted on the City of Loganville Events Facebook page on November 28, 2026.
• To vote for a favorite display, community members must comment with its assigned snowman number. Each person may cast one valid Facebook vote. Multiple comments from the same person will count as only one vote.
• Each valid Facebook vote earns the corresponding entry one point toward its People's Choice total.

People's Choice Award: Holiday Toy Drive

• Snowmen on Main is partnering with the Country Kids Christmas Round-Up, a program operated by the Country Kids Foundation that provides Christmas gifts to children in need throughout Loganville and Walton County.
• Community members may donate toys for children from newborn through 18 years of age. Each participating snowman will have a corresponding donation box located at Loganville City Hall, 4303 Lawrenceville Road. your donation in the box corresponding to your favorite snowman to help support the entry while bringing Christmas joy to a local child.
• All donated toys must be new, unwrapped, and in their original packaging.
• Each eligible toy donation earns the corresponding snowman five (5) bonus points toward its People's Choice total. There is no limit to the number of eligible toys a person may donate.

How the People's Choice Winner Is Determined:

The People's Choice winner will be the entry with the highest combined point total from valid Facebook votes and eligible toy donations.

- Each valid Facebook vote earns 1 point.
- Each eligible toy donation earns 5 bonus points.
- Each person may cast only one Facebook vote but may donate multiple toys.

Toy donations must be dropped off by 5:00 PM on Friday, December 18, 2026. Facebook voting will remain open until 11:59 PM that evening.

Mayor's Choice Award

In addition to the People's Choice Award, the Mayor of Loganville will independently select one entry to receive the Mayor's Choice Award.

Both winners will be announced on December 21, 2026, on the City of Loganville Events Facebook page.

11. Display Period

Snowmen will be displayed throughout Downtown Loganville from November 28 through December 31, 2026.

Participants understand that displays will be located outdoors in public areas and may be exposed to weather, vandalism, theft, and normal wear and tear.

12. Removal & Cleanup

Participants may begin removing their displays on January 2, 2027. All snowmen, props, decorations, signs, weights, and other display materials must be completely removed no later than January 8, 2027.

Participants are responsible for leaving their assigned areas clean and orderly. 

City-owned trash cans or dumpsters and private merchant dumpsters may not be used to dispose of display materials.

Any display remaining after the January 8, 2027, deadline may be removed and disposed of by the City. Snowman displays and materials remaining after the deadline will become property of the City of Loganville and may be subject to a $100 disposal fee.

13. Damage, Loss & Liability

Participants are responsible for the construction, transportation, installation, maintenance, and removal of their displays.

The City of Loganville is not responsible for lost, stolen, vandalized, weather-damaged, or otherwise damaged snowmen, decorations, props, or other personal property.

Participants are responsible for ensuring their displays are constructed, installed, and maintained in a manner that does not create a hazard to pedestrians, businesses, City property, or other persons.

14. City Rights

The City of Loganville reserves the right to interpret and enforce these Terms & Conditions and make reasonable changes to display locations, installation procedures, contest procedures, or other program details when necessary for safety, accessibility, weather, event operations, or other municipal needs.

The City reserves the right to deny participation, disqualify an entry, require modifications, or remove or relocate any display that violates these Terms & Conditions, becomes unsafe, obstructs access, damages public property, is not properly maintained, or is otherwise determined to be inappropriate for the program.

By submitting an entry, participants acknowledge that they have read, understood, and agree to comply with these Terms & Conditions.