The first day of Cloverbud day camp is a treat every year and needless to say this year is no different. For those of you not familiar with the 4-H lingo, Cloverbuds are our 5 to 8 year old youth. In the 4-H world they get a chance to see and experience a lot of what our older youth do but not in a competitive role. Often the cloverbuds try it out and receive ribbons, and ideas on how to improve and by the time they are juniors (ages 9-13). However Cloverbud day camp is a little different because this is often the first introduction these youth have to 4-H and the experience that can lie ahead.
The cloverbud day camp has a set schedule each day. The difference for them is that different volunteers come in to visit and we do all sorts of fun hands on projects everyday. Today being the first day we started with the normal get to know you games, making our rules and consequences, and just trying to figure out where we all fit in. We are also lucky that we have two teen leaders helping this week Chris and Tierra. They will probably show up in our pictures each day and we are excited that they are helping with all the fun.
One of their favorite projects are working with Christy and Janice. Christy Strickland, a Family and Consumer Science Agent will be working with the youth all week on green crafts. They will learn all about recycling, leaving a smaller carbon foot print, and how to have fun find another purpose for every day items. Today they used potatoes, carrots and celery as paint stamps to create their own green frogs on their own reusable bags. They will get their finished bags on Friday along with all the others things they will make with Christy this week.
Janice Fields is also a Family and Consumer Science Agent and her speciality is teaching healthy cooking and nutrition. She worked with our cloverbuds talking about whole grains and they got a chance to make their own afternoon snack, a whole grain shake snack. They mixed all sorts of whole grain goodies together like cheerios, wheat chex and pretzels add some homemade taco seasoning and had a yummy treat to snack on in the afternoon.
After lunch we played all sorts of neat games with Mrs. Stacie from Exploration Station. We even made animal collages and made our own animal boogie oogie dance moves up. She had soo much fun that she even gave us tickets to visit her at the Exploration Station after our Cloverbud day camp. We had tons of fun.
Then Ms. Shelly and Miss Scarlet from the library came to visit. We heard all about the library and the different programs going on at all the libraries around the county. Then we made tie-dye handkerchief by drawing designs with sharpie markers. After we were done drawing we painted them with rubbing alcohol which made the designs run and looked like tie-dye designs. They were so cool. Ms. Shelly also gave everyone a pencil which will help us get ready for school in a couple of weeks.
After our yummy snack time we got ready to do a community service project. We created some really neat art work and with a little help we cut it out and pasted it to the bottom of a clear gem. Then Miss. Shea Ann helped us attach a magnet. We chose one to give away to someone we don't know and brighten their day, and got to take the rest of them home with us. they were really neat.
After processing our day we got a little play time and we are looking forward to tomorrow. who knows what is in store? Can't wait until tomorrow to see.
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