2016 Halloween Contest

Jerry and Ben have a special announcement for all of their blog pals. Take it away Ben...


"Me an Jerry are beary happee to announze our 6th Annual Beary Spooky Halloween Contest!!!" You can view the results from last year's contest!

That's right Ben, same contests as before, AND we're offering two new categories!

Contest 1: Halloween Costume (purchased costume)
Contest 2: Halloween Costume (mostly home-made)

Contest 3: Pumpkin Carving / Jack-o-lantern

Contest 4: Home-grown pumpkin or gourd contest (from your garden!)

To enter, have your human companion(s) (1) take a photo of you in a Halloween costume and/or (2) take a photo of the pumpkin that you helped to carve, and/or (3) take a photo of you showing off your home-grown pumpkins or gourds. Send copies of the photo(s) to us (jerryandben@yahoo.com) or post the them on your own blog and copy the post's/photo's address (URL) and paste it in the comment section of THIS post. For costumes, let us know which category you are entering. The Contest is only open to stuffies (sorry humans and seKretaries). You may enter as many contests as you wish, but each stuffie can enter each category only once (e.g. Ben may not enter 3 different home-made costumes). 

Contest Deadline: Monday, October 24, 2016

We hope you enter!

Too Cold, a Surprise, and a Hot Drink

It is beary cold where we live today! Although our thermometer reads 1ºF (that's -17º for our celsius pals), with the wind chill the temperature actually feels like -25ºF or -32ºC.

That is BEARY cold. Brrrrr. Karl, our pal and exchange student from the Arctic, thinks the weather is great!

We're braving the cold to show our blog pals the prize we received for winning our pal Ajdin's Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest.

Winnie the Pooh stickers! Thanks Ajdin! We had a lot of fun entering your contest.

Now, back to the cold. Ben says "I'd like to protezt!!!"

"What seKretary sendz little bears out in the freezing cold? That iz crazee!" Jerry adds "Yeah! Thiz iz juzt redicoolus!"

"How aR we suppozed to survive theze freegid temperatures?!" A voice suddenly says, "Well Jerry and Ben, maybe you just need something hot to drink so that you can warm you up."

Ben pauses and then says "That iz more like it!" Jerry adds "Yum, hot chocolate! Ok, ... seKretaries aR sometimes uzeful I guess."

Did you enjoy any hot chocolate today?

5th Annual Halloween Contest

Update: we've only received a couple of entries, so we've extended the deadline until Tuesday, October 27.

Jerry and Ben are pleased to announce their

5th Annual Beary Spooky Halloween Contest!!!

Contest 1: Halloween Costume
Contest 2: Pumpkin Carving / Jack-o-lantern

To enter, have your human companion(s) (1) take a photo of you in a Halloween costume and/or (2) take a photo of the pumpkin that you helped to carve.  Send copies of the photo(s) to us (jerryandben@yahoo.com) or post the them on your own blog, and copy the post's/photo's address (URL) and paste it in the comment section of THIS post. The Contest is only open to toys (sorry humans and seKretaries), and only one entry (one costume and/or one carved pumpkin) per toy please. You may enter BOTH contests if you like! Contest Deadline: Friday, October 23, 2015.

The Contest Winners will receive a package of beary special Halloween treats and goodies, and an autographed photo of us, Jerry and Ben. "Thatz the bezt part!" says Ben.

Previous Winners: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

"We hopp that youu Anter ouwr kontast!" adds Jerry.

Mail Call

We received 2 different things in our mailbox from our pal Sandy!

First, a cool wooden bear magnet and card as a prize for our win in Sandy's recent Spring Photo Contest! We also received a postcard from Sandy who was taking a mini holiday at a cool lodge! We hope the seKretaries packed the smores kit Sandy (if not, you can mark that on your next evaluation form).

We've also been keeping an eye on our new neighbor!

Can you see that he's added a few more things to feel more at home? We think that means he feels right at home. We're still taking name suggestions for Mr. Gnome! Thanks to everyone who sent in their ideas. We'll announce it on the next episode of Jerry's Corner.

2014 Halloween Contest Results

The results of our 2014 Halloween Contest!

Thank you to everyone who entered! Jerry and Ben really enjoyed seeing all of your creativity. Deciding on the winners was, as always, beary difficult. This yeah, our pal Jake helped to judge entries and to cast the deciding vote if necessary. In the end, everyone is a winner!!! The official results are posted below. Congratulations to you all! Prizes and treats will be sent shortly.

CONTEST 1: HALLOWEEN COSTUME

 First Place  goes to Little Fox for his frightening Dracula costume, complete with black cape and menacing evil eyebrows! So scary!

 Second Place  goes to Ajdin and friends for their interpretation of that famous George Lucas space adventure film Salmon Wars, starring Ajdin Salmonfisher, Darth Tibbs, and Master Oooda. May the FISH be with you!

 Third Place  goes to Sandy for his adorable cat costume, which of course matches his amazing jack-o-lantern design (see below). He even has some treats in his trick-or-treating bag! Nice job Sandy!

CONTEST 2: PUMPKIN CARVING

 First Place  goes to Sandy for his amazing Scary Cat pumpkin. It looks amazing! Meow!

 Second Place  goes to Beanie and Tango for a beary scary evil jack-o-lantern! Great job!

A beary big congratulations to all our winners!!! You were all fantastic! Happy Halloween!

4th Annual Halloween Contest

Jerry and Ben have a special announcement for all of their blog pals. Take it away Ben...

"Me an Jerry are beary happee to announze our 4th Annual Beary Spooky Halloween Contest!!!" You can view the results from last year's contest!

That's right Ben, we are again offering two different contests:

Contest 1: Halloween Costume
Contest 2: Pumpkin Carving / Jack-o-lantern

To enter, have your human companion(s) (1) take a photo of you in a Halloween costume and/or (2) take a photo of the pumpkin that you helped to carve.  Send copies of the photo(s) to us (jerryandben@yahoo.com) or post the them on your own blog, and copy the post's/photo's address (URL) and paste it in the comment section of THIS post. The Contest is only open to toys (sorry humans and seKretaries), and only one entry (one costume and/or one carved pumpkin) per toy please. You may enter BOTH contests if you like! Contest Deadline: Friday, October 24, 2014.

The Contest Winners will receive a package of beary special Halloween treats and goodies, and an autographed photo of us, Jerry and Ben. "Thatz the bezt part!" says Ben.

"We hopp that youu Anter ouwr kontast!" adds Jerry.

2013 Halloween Contest Results!

The results of our

3rd annual Halloween Contest

are here!

Thank you to everyone who entered! Jerry and Ben really enjoyed seeing all of your creativity. Deciding on the winners was a beary difficult task. In the end, everyone is a winner!!! The official results are posted below. Congratulations to you all! Prizes and treats will be sent shortly.

CONTEST 1: HALLOWEEN COSTUME

 First Place  goes to Sandy for his Supreme Commander of the planet Bearspaw home-made costume! This is Sandy's second costume win in a row! Although when Jerry read that the Supreme Commander wanted us to take him to our secret stash of honey, he ran out of the room; Jerry is very protective of his honey supply!

 Second Place  goes to Achille for his super cute Wizard and magic broom costume complete with personalized wizard's robe! We wish Achille had real magic broom so that he could visit us!

 Third Place  goes to a group of great pals: (from left-to-right) Starbucks Bear as a British Royal Guard, Daddy Miga as a Construction Worker, Baby Pooh as Mighty Thor and Berry as “Cherry” in her pretty sakura kimono. The group included a photo to show what they looked like before this put on their costumes. Looks like a great group; we bet they'll get a beary lot of Halloween candy...and Jerry and Ben offer to help it it in case they get too much, hehe.

before...

after, showing their costumes!

CONTEST 2: PUMPKIN CARVING

 First Place  goes to Beanie and Tango for a beary scary "MWAHAHA" pumpkin! This is Beanie's second award in a row for pumpkin carving! Beanie is awarded a bonus point for incorporating a bad spot on the pumpkin into the design; the bad spot added more scariness by making it look as if one of the jack-o-lantern's teeth was rotted! Ooooh, soooo scary!

 Second Place  goes to Sandy for his very original Bear Paw pumpkin. What a super clever idea Sandy! We may copy it for one of our pumpkins!

A beary big congratulations to all our winners!!! You were all fantastic! Happy Halloween!

3rd Annual Halloween Contest

Jerry and Ben have a special announcement for all of their blog pals. Take it away Ben...

"Me an Jerry are beary happee to announze our 3rd Annual Beary Spooky Halloween Contest!!!  Lazt year, owr pals Sandy and Beanie wun our two kontests, and Ute and Dilly took segund plase prizes."

That's right Ben, we are again offering two different contests:

Contest 1: Halloween Costume
Contest 2: Pumpkin Carving / Jack-o-lantern

To enter, have your human companion(s) (1) take a photo of you in a Halloween costume and/or (2) take a photo of the pumpkin that you helped to carve.  Send copies of the photo(s) to us (jerryandben@yahoo.com) or post the them on your own blog, and copy the post's/photo's address (URL) and paste it in the comment section of THIS post. The Contest is only open to toys (sorry humans!), and only one entry (one costume and/or one carved pumpkin) per toy please. You may enter BOTH contests if you like! Contest Deadline: Wednesday, October 23, 2013.

The Contest Winners will receive a package of beary special Halloween treats and goodies, and an autographed photo of us, Jerry and Ben.

"We hopp that youu Anter ouwr kontast!"  Jerry

2012 Halloween Contest Results!

The results of our second annual Halloween Contes are here! Thank you to every bear, mouse, sheep, and dragon who entered! Jerry and Ben really enjoyed seeing all of your creativity, and deciding on the winners was a beary difficult task. In the end, everyone is a winner!!! The official results are posted below. Congratulations to you all! Prizes and treats will be sent shortly.

Halloween Costume: Alexander Mackenzie bear (Sandy) as a frightening mummy...we think Sandy's costume was created by his Mummy (hehe)  First Place Costume

Pumpkin Carving: Sandy's Jack-o-lantern  Second Place Pumpkin Carving

Halloween Costume: Ute and her flock sent in the spooky spidery photo!   Second Place Costume (tie)

Pumpkin Carving: A spooky pumpkin entry from Beanie and Tango  First Place Pumpking Carving

Halloween Costume: Dilly Dragon as a pretty pink mummy!  Second Place Costume (tie)

Ben Has an Announcement...

Jerry and Ben have a special announcement for all of their blog pals. Take it away Ben...

"Me an Jerry are beary happee to announze our Second Beary Spooky Halloween Contest!!!  Lazt year, owr pal Leona wun the kontest! She had a bootiful witsh kostoom and Jerry and Me reelly liked it!"

That's right Ben, but this year, we're offering 2 different contests:

Contest 1: Halloween Costume
Contest 2: Pumpkin Carving / Jack-o'-lantern

To enter, have your human companion(s) (1) take a photo of you in a Halloween costume and/or (2) take a photo of the pumpkin that you helped to carve.  Send copies of the photo(s) to us (jerryandben@yahoo.com) or post the them on your own blog, and copy the post's/photo's address (URL) and paste it in the comment section of THIS post. The Contest is only open to toys (sorry humans!), and only one entry (one costume and/or one carved pumpkin) per toy please. You may enter BOTH contests if you like! Contest Deadline: Wednesday, October 24, 2012.

The Contest Winners will receive a package of beary special Halloween treats and goodies, and an autographed photo of us, Jerry and Ben.

"We hopp that youu Anter ouwr kontast!"  Jerry

Bear Olympics - Team USA & Final Voting!

Team USA--Ben, Jerry and Jake--(photo above, left-to-right) is ready for the Bear Olympics, and we're very pleased to host the following beary important contests:

ENTRIES & FINAL RESULTS!
Judging for our contests will be a little different from some of the other bear olympics contests (just to make it easier): Jerry, Ben and Jake will each give a score of 1-to-10 to the entry, and the final score will be the average of those 3 individual scores. We'll be sending some little prizes to the winners.

The judges were beary impressed with all the contestants! You all did a great job!

Contest 1: Napping
photo of the contestant napping or hibernating


Gold Medal, Fitzwilliam Toffypenny
Silver Medal, Sullivan McPig
Bronze Medal, (tie) Sandy & Buttons BeCause


Sullivan McPig (The Netherlands)
Judges' Results:
Jerry: "Sullivan iz snoozing, zzzz." 8.5
Ben: "That blankie lookz nize!" 8.5
Jake: "Awesome dude!" 8

Sullivan is napping on the couch with a nice warm and soft blanket.

Fitzwilliam Toffypenny (The Friendly Company of Bears, "Granny K"), (Great Britain)

Judges' Results:
Jerry: "I sleep when I reed too muzh two!" 8.5
Ben: "The bouk iz a nize tuch! Beary creetive!" 9
Jake: "Awesome dude!" 9

 If you listen carefully, you can hear Fitzwilliam Toffypenny snoring!

Alexander Mackenzie Bear (Sandy), (Canada)

Judges' Results:
Jerry: "Shhhh, don't wake Sandy up!" 8
Ben: "Duz Sandy wear hiz hat two bed? Canada muzt bea culd!" 8
Jake: "Awesome dudes!" 8.5

Buttons BeCause (U.S.A.)

Judges' Results:

Jerry: "Buttons needz to burrow Sullivan's blankie!" 8

Ben: "We luv naps too! Napz are beary gud!" 8.5

Jake: "Awesome dude!" 8

Contest 2: Gardening
photo of the contestant gardening or in the garden

Gold Medal, (tie) Sandy & Buttons BeCause
Silver Medal, Teddy
Bronze Medal, (tie) Bob T. Bear & Zotti

Alexander Mackenzie Bear (Sandy--flower gardening), (Canada)

Judges' Results:
Jerry: "Thatz a beary nice garden!" 8.5
Ben: "Where iz Sandy? Oh, there he iz! I like all the difrant kinz of plantz." 9
Jake: "Awesome dude!" 9

Alexander Mackenzie Bear (Teddy--herb gardening), (Canada)

Judges' Results:
Jerry: "Yummy, mint!" 9
Ben: "Teddy iz a gud gardener, look at all the mint!" 8.5
Jake: "Awesome dude!" 8.5

 Alexander Mackenzie Bear (Zotti--vegetable gardening), (Canada)

Judges' Results:
Jerry: "Beary purty!" 8
Ben: "Zotti muzt be proud of thoz veggees!" 8.5
Jake: "Awesome dude!" 8.5

Bob. T. Bear, Esq. (Great Britain)

Judges' Results:

Jerry: "Thatz a nize shuvul, kan I burrow it?" 8.5

Ben: "Are you growing slugs Bob? (giggle and toe wiggles)" 8.5

Jake: "Awesome dude!" 8

Bob. gardening with marigolds and slugs

Buttons BeCause (U.S.A.)

Judges' Results:

Jerry: "Thatz a beary nice garden!" 9
Ben: "We luv all the photoz Buttons!" 9
Jake: "Awesome dude!" 8.5

one gardening photo among many; check the link above for more

And the Winner is...

Thanks to all our pals who entered our first annual Beary Spookey Halloween Contest!! We really loved all the entries, and the costumes and halloween decorations were all beary spookey! Jerry and Ben looked at each photo carefully and spent a long time discussing how creative the costumes were. Our honorable mentions are Bear Hobs and Rachel at Mis Peluches Nici, and the grand prize winner was Leona for her halloween witch with jack-o-latern and fall decor! We hope you'll all enter our contest again next year!