Robeson County 4-H

  Our annual 4-H Artastic Contest took place recently and the almost 40 entries were judged by three judges who all said that this was a talented group of young people.  They even made notes on many of their forms that they would like to display many of the items they judges in their homes.  That is the highest praise of all. Each of the items were distributed by artist age, and then category.  When everything was entered and separated that means that there were 42 entries in three age divisions.  In some areas there was a lot of competition, in others maybe just one or two entries. Jakaelin Hunt, who is a new member of the Dirty Rascals Jr. Master Gardener 4-H Club took home a blue ribbon in the (9-10 year old age division) for her sewing expertise on a tissue holder and her painting on a plate. Shepard Page who is a new member of the Explore NC 4-H Club took home a few ribbons in the 11-13 year old age division including; 4th for his sewn bag, second for ...

It was a quick but effective 4-H County Council and Volunteer Leaders' Association Election tonight .  Alex Evans, current 4-H County Council President lead the elections starting with our 4-H County Council officers.  There was a full slate and each club had the opportunity to cast their ballots.  In the end our 2018 officers will be;  Gia Williams of the Titans 4-H Club, President; Tristan Page, of the Explore NC 4-H Club as President-Elect; Laci Rozier of the Explore NC and Dirty Dozen Shooting Sports 4-H Club as Secretary-Treasurer; D. J. Brown-Rogers of the Titans 4-H Club will serve as the Reporter; and Trey Williams of the Titans 4-H Club serving as Sergeant at Arms. The Volunteers had a more difficult time.  Only three positions had folks who stepped up to run so the needed to have nominations from the floor.  After phone calls and text messages the following slate of officers were presented:  Larry Russ of the Dirty Dozen Shooting Sports Cl...

     The link below is for the Growing Together newsletter.  It is a newsletter designed for parents of preschool age children and would apply to a young child working on behavior, and building relationships.  It includes games and activities.  We thought it might be a welcome tool for those who frequent this blog. https://growingchild.com/growingtogether/7277ii/Sep17.pdf

The following article was written by Wendy Maynor for the Robesonian , and may appear in other media.  It can also be found on the North Carolina Cooperative Extension, Robeson County Center website. With today’s busy lifestyles, time management is more important than ever. It seems as though parents and children have never been busier. It is vital for youth to learn time management as early as possible. As parents, we usually make appointments and schedule activities for our children, but as they get older, youth should be involved in managing their time and being held accountable. When children graduate and go off to college, parents are not there to help them manage their schedules. As a result, youth may have a difficult time transitioning, because they have never had the responsibility of managing their own time. There are several ways we can help our children learn the importance of time management at an early age. When my children were younger, and in school, I put a...

Please check out the latest from the NC 4-H Horse Program.   This newsletter contains information about past and upcoming events.  If you like horses or are interested in the 4-H Horse program, please check it out1

  Tonight was our third in a series of 4-H Adult Volunteer Trainings .  This is a multi county opportunity and we travelled to Fayetteville for a training on personalities.  With a group that is so comfortable with each other, and has such a range of personalities we knew tonight would be fun.   Once at the Cumberland County Cooperative Extension office we enjoyed dinner of BBQ and fried chicken, along with all the fixings.  There were also some awesome desserts.  A special thank you to their staff for working with us and making us so comfortable.  We really appreciate all of their assistance.   Our training tonight centered around the True Colors personality assessment.  This is a tool that classifies your personality based on your characterization of a series of words.  The words are broken into groupings and the tester determines which groupings are most like them and which are not.  Once finished the tester scores the tool w...

Our 4-H Summer Fun program is officially in the history pages, but I feel like there is something missing, hence this post.  Robeson County 4-H Summer Fun is a collection of day camps, and overnight opportunities for youth between the ages of 5-19.  Each week is a little different and involves a lot of planning, coordinating, and often last minute plan B's to make it all come together.  That being said it often takes lots of folks to make that happen, and all of their contributions need to be recognized.  First and foremost to our parents and families that register their youth for our programs, gift a week of camp to them, and make sure they get there and get picked up, thank you.  We appreciate that you trust us with your child.  We try to offer them an experience that will  entertain and hopefully expand their learning experiences and life experiences.  We know you have lots of choices out there and we want to say thank you for choosing and su...

  It's the last day of 4-H Cloverbud day camp and we thought we would go for something a little different.  Today our theme is Under the Sea and all of our activities are water related without the water.  Almost crafty isn't it?   We started our day with hanging out with our friends.  We played games, and colored.  Even found some new stuff today to play with.  It was pretty neat.  We even played our adults and beat some of them.   After our learned and liked session we had to play the quiet game.  This is our very favorite game which everyone piles on the carpet, gets comfortable, and can not speak or move.  If you do speak or move, you are out.  Last one laying on the carpet wins.  It's a tough game that requires focus and any of our campers can win. Our first under the sea activity was actually involving us making something you play with before getting into the sea, sand.  This wasn't any ordinary sand, it wa...

  We are on the downhill slide for our 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp so that means its time to ramp up the fun. Today our plan is to cut up a little, paint the world bright colors, and do some strange and wonderfully fun things to celebrate our Crafty Thursday.   Our day started with puzzles, coloring, war, Tenzy, and much more as we talked with all of our new friends and got to know them even better. It wasn't long before we got to the business at hand arts and crafts!   Our first project was to finish one we started on Wacky Science Wednesday, taking our chromatography coffee filters and turning them into butterflies.  All of the designs were one of a kind and unique.  With a mere pipe cleaner we were able to transform our science project into an art project making the most delicate and adorable decorations that flew right into our hearts.   So another link that makes this day special is that 4-H does a special contest for 4-H members called Artastic. ...

For a group of Cloverbuds with this much personality you would think a day called Wacky Science Wednesday might be right up their alley, and as it turns out we blew it up when we stuck this name on our third day of 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp. Our youth started out their day as usual, playing games, coloring, and catching up with their new friends.  Each morning they act like they haven't seen each other in ages as they catch up on what they did since they saw each other the afternoon before.  With youth who are so energetic and expressive its often funny to listen to them tell their stories, correct each other, and try their best to have adult like conversations.  It wasn't long before our youth hit the carpet and were regaling us with all that they had learned and liked the day before.  It is truly amazing all that they retain.   Before they knew it we were committing science, but it may have seemed more like fun to them.  Our first activity is a two part...

  Citizen leaders are important in our community.  It is important that youth develop the compassion for the people and community in which they live.  Starting early and letting our youth develop this life skill is important to the future of our society.  That's why we thought we would do a whole day of community service projects, thus making this Two for Our Community Tuesday .   Needless to our say our day started with getting settled in by coloring and playing games in the morning.  Our youth are learning new games and making friends and it's fun for them to ease into their day this way.  Of course then there is the what I learned and what I liked segment as we review the day before, and I can say this group learned a whole lot on Messy Monday and it had nothing to do with cleaning up.  We reviewed our upcoming day and broke into two groups for the activities.   One group headed to the kitchen to make dog treats for K-9's at the Humane...

Messy Monday seemed like the perfect theme to kick off our last summer camp of 2017, 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp .  For those of you wondering, in the world of 4-H we refer to our 5-8 year olds as our cloverbuds.  Most of their competitions are non competitive and we are working hard to nurture them as they grow into our program. When our campers came in this morning it was a little quiet.  As they settled into coloring, playing games, and learning a new card game (War) they were checking everyone and everything out.  Trust me, nothing escaped their eyes.  Of course one of our first acts was to sit down and let our campers work out our rules and consequences.  I must say this group was much tougher then our staff and volunteers would have been, but we hope their consequences won't be needed this week as we concentrate on having fun. Now, we thought the best way to have fun on Messy Monday would be to make the ever popular slime.  Each camper got t...