Wednesday, August 12, 2009

4-H goes Greener


If Wednesday had a theme it would be recycling day. Almost all of our activities centered around using, reusing, reducing and of course having a bunch of fun. We started our day in the normal way with our games that encouraged teamwork and sportsmanship. We revived the game of Hot Potato and had a blast passing the ball and finding new ways to work together and not against each other to win.

After our rousing games and morning snack we split up and worked with Mrs. Christy and Mrs. Janice. Mrs. Janice showed us how to make chocolate chip cookie dough (with and without eggs for those that have allergies) and a healthy wiggly jiggly jello snack. We worked on cookie sheet memo boards with Mrs. Christy. Each memo board shows each campers personality and creativity. It will also allow magnetic reminders, pin up notes and all sorts of other things for parents to help communicate with us.

Lunch time was as active as always and then we settled down to story time with Mrs. Tanya. She read us a Sr. Seuss story and then the Buccaneer Bunny. She even brought a recycle craft for us to do. We made picture frames frames recycled two liter Coca-Cola (and Diet Coke) bottles. Then we played a really fun game, "Who wants to Buy my Donkey". It was lots of fun and Mrs. Tanya was really great to come play with us.

After Mrs. Tanya left Megan and Mrs. Jane came by to do have more recycling fun with us. We made our own American Flags then decorated Cd's to make really neat wall hangings. In between we tried our wiggly jiggly jello jigglers and it was really good. How could purple and blue jello full of fruit be anything but good?

We ended our day playing our favorite freeze game on the carpet. We lay down and whoever moves first is out. It gave us a chance to think about all the fun we had and how much more is still to come.

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