Special Day means Special Guests

It is Wednesday and that means day three of 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp. We are reaching the halfway mark of this great experience and today will be full of surprises like all of our others. We started with a special coloring page which Ms. Messy Missy made for us. It had a frog and we made him very colorful, just like a Picasso. After coloring we talked about the day before, the good stories, frogs, and games.

After a rousing round of the silent game we had snack and headed to the kitchen with Mrs. Janice. Everyone put on their aprons and gloves and watched as Mrs. Janice showed them how she turns wheat from the field into flour. Then we learned to read a recipe and we practiced our measuring skills from the day before by making some not so peanut peanut butter cookies. We used soy butter instead of peanut butter and the cookies were scrumptious.

For the group with Miss Shea Ann we got to meet a very special visitor. Miss Shea Ann talked with us about the responsibility of having animals and learning about the right kind of animal for us if we are going to have one. We talked about the proper animal etiquette (how to greet an animal), and what we would need to do to be ready to meet our special guest. Then she brought in a very special visitor. His name is Manny and he is a French Bulldog. He is a very happy dog and made happy noises at us. He let us all pet him and was very very nice. For those campers who are generally scared of dogs they even petted him, and later in the day took the opportunity to introduce their parents to him and tell them all about him and his habits.

After cooking and enjoying Manny it was time for the most important part of the day...Mrs. Penny's grilled cheese sandwiches. It was a lot of fun as we ate lunch together and resumed our movie complete with all kinds of animals.

After lunch Mrs. Tanya joined us for story time. Manny who likes stories also joined us from the comfort of his kennel. She read some of the very best books about giraffes, frogs and gravity. Then we went outside to test the theory of gravity by making a specific type of art, bubble art. We stood in front of paper and blew colored bubbles that popped and made art. When we came back in it was time for an aerobic version of Simon Says that involved stepping on popping paper. It was noisy but fun.

Then Mrs. Tameka joined us for our EFNEP lesson. Today we learned about fruits and learned how to make a fruit kabob. It involves marshmallows, fresh fruit and a lot of smiles. Some of the kabobs were bigger than the chefs preparing them but that didn't matter for long, as they were gobbled right down.

This has been a fun and busy day. Stay tuned because if everything goes, as it has, we will be having even more fun tomorrow.