Today was the first of these programs as 11 teens attended the Southeast District 4-H Winterfest Meeting. Our youth got up early on a day off from school to jump in the van and drive about two hours to the Wayne County Extension Center in Goldsboro. Once there we joined forces with about 70 other youth from 18 different counties. Youth broke the ice with a quick game of 4-H Jeopardy, and even learned a couple of things along the way. The district officers lead a brief business meeting and then everyone took a break for lunch.
After lunch the group was broken into two smaller groups, one went to the kitchen to cook with one of their district officers, while the rest attended a workshop on team building with our own 4-H Extension Agent, Shea Ann DeJarnette.
During the cooking workshop youth learned about making a spinach smoothie, baked fries, dirt cake, and straight from the pages of Harry Potter, butter beer. Everyone had a good time in the kitchen learning, experimenting, and testing. Ok, some recipes they liked more than others, but there was no question about the amount of fun they had.
The team building workshop meant getting creative and getting up to have some fun. We started with the game of two truths and a lie. Essentially everyone introduces themselves and gives two factual Peices of information about themselves and one fictitious one. It is up to the group to determine which one is fictitious.
It is amazing
what we learned about each other during this exercise. After getting up
and stretching for a good laugh, we broke up into five teams for a quick
circular logic exercise using a hula hoop. After the hula hoop exercise
everyone broke out into four teams for a lemonade relay. Maybe it was
more an exercise in how not to make lemonade, but it was lots of laughs and
fun. After that we came together in one big circle to pass the ball and answer
some questions before our Hershey's Personality Assessment. After about
an hour the participants switched workshops and had exponential amounts of fun!
When the workshops were over there was a community service project that sort of makes you melt. The youth made valentines that will be distributed to others. The valentines were made from melting crayon shavings between sheets of wax paper. The wax paper was then cut out in the shape of a heart and a whole punched in it so a string could be threaded through it and it could be hung up in a window like stained glass.
After completing the project it was time to say good bye to all our new friends with the promise to see them again at the next district event which will be Teen Retreat March 8-9. If you would like more information about this program please contact the 4-H
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