Cake decorating

The girls had a school carnival with a cake/cupcake decorating contest. They looked at ideas online and each picked what they wanted to do. The baked their own cakes/ cupcakes. I helped very minimally. Since it was a contest I felt it only fair that they do the project without much help from mom. They had a lot of fun decorating them.  They didn't win and were a little disappointed.  The girl who one first place was in 1st grade and her cake was a zoo full of animals made out of fondant.  There is no way that little girl made those. animals.   I thought it was unfair to award someone 1st place who obviously didn't decorate the cake.   There were some very cute cakes entered, that you could tell were decorated by kids, that should've won.