Posted by Cindy on March 12, 2009
The Slim Goodbody Bodyology Tour came through our area Monday. It was well worth the $6.00 ticket price! I even won a music CD for sharing an awesome muscular ability I have – being able to close one eye completely without closing the other at all. Now, how cool is that??
On Tuesday, our Homeschool 4-H Club had a special speaker who happened to be talking on the topic of nutrition. A perfect fit even if it wasn’t planned! After talking about healthy eating habits, they made some fun little critter snacks out of apples, raisins, pretzels, granola and peanut butter. Yum!
Our group usually gets to help bag take-home snacks for the needy children in our local schools. They always enjoy helping with this task.
Posted by Cindy on April 10, 2008
What a fun 4-H class this month! The extension office’s horticulture agent taught a lesson about indoor plants, then each child created their own planter. He even brought a plant from his office and let the kids take a piece home to try their hand at rooting a new plant. Our little guys (and moms) were full of questions, which he happily answered no matter how silly or serious.
Posted by Cindy on January 12, 2008
Have you ever heard of Warm Fuzzies for Cancer Patients? I hadn’t either, but our 4-H extension agent did some research and found this wonderful program for us to take part. Groups (or individuals) make fleece lap blankets and donate them to cancer centers. So, that’s what our 4-H group did this week. Our blankets were headed to Markey Cancer Center in Lexington, KY. That’s our pile of rolled blankets and all the loving and capable hands that made them.
Making the blankets is a cinch. You take one yard of fleece and cut 4″ squares out of the corners. Then, cut slits up 4″ about an inch apart on all sides. Loosely tie two “slits” together in knots until you go all the way around the perimeter. There you have it – beautiful lap robes that kids can easily do on their own.
Here’s a site I found that gives directions for making your own fleece blankets. Have fun!
Posted by Cindy on December 12, 2007
Just recently, our local 4-H agent, Lois, started a Homeschool 4-H Club. Can I just tell you how awesome it is???
We decided early on that we wanted it to be hands-on, meaningful and service oriented. Forget the meeting minutes and officers and such! Well, we met for our first meeting this week and it exceeded every expectation I had!
The children were asked to bring ingredients to make their favorite Christmas cookie. They each got to be “Emeril” as they demonstrated their recipe to the rest of the group. After a cookie tasting party, they loaded up the leftovers and we delivered them to our local fire stations as a Christmas gift. What fun!!
Next month – making lap quilts.
Posted by Cindy on July 9, 2007
Did you know your children can make some serious money at the fair? This was our first year for entering any projects, so Mahayla only entered her basket and lamp. But she won 1st place in her class for each project and earned $8.00. She also won reserve grand champion for her lamp! Think about how much she could’ve won had she entered art projects, knitting, crochet, baking, canning, flowers, vegetables….!! At $4.00 for 1st, $3.00 for 2nd and $2.00 for 3rd place, a kid could earn quite a lot. Next year, we’ll plan better!
We always have fun at the fair. It’s getting more and more expensive to go ($8.00 a person), so we try to pick the night when the most fun activities are going on. This year we enjoyed a horse show, cattle show, alligator show, goat show, talent contest, petting zoo and, ofcourse, the rides. I even won a drawing for three jars of jam from a local farm!
