World's Largest Towel Chicken!*

At the 2007 Sauk County Fair, the Sauk County 4-H Ambassador Team attempted to make the World's Largest Towel Chicken. This event was a fundraiser for the Sauk County 4-H program. All money raised is being used to fund a new youth-led grant program in Sauk County 4-H.

What is a Towel Chicken?

A towel chicken is a towel that is rolled and folded to make a chicken. Here is how you do it.

First you take a towel...

You roll it...

And fold it...

And pull out the little chicken legs...

To make a chicken!

And, finally, the World's Largest Towel Chicken...

Over 100 towels that were donated by McArthur Towels in Baraboo, Wisconsin were sewn together to form one giant towel...

Youth worked together to roll and fold the towel....

And a bobcat was used to reveal the giant towel chicken!

Thanks to our sponsors:

*Guinness Book of World Records denied our request to add a new "World's Largest Towel Chicken" category to their book. Because of this, we can not officially claim that this is the World's Largest Towel Chicken--although we doubt a bigger one has been made anywhere!

**Thanks to George Shirley for these great pictures!

Contact Jessica Jens for more information. Email: jessica.jens@ces.uwex.edu

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