SE District 4-H Winter Fling

Can you survive the SE District 4-H Winter Fling?  Well our Robeson County 4-H delegation came home with a new set of skills thanks to the Survivor Edition of SED Winter Fling.  This was the first district event for most of our Delegation, except for our state officer, Kennedi Lyons, who did her best to ease everyone into the fun of the event.  This year's fling, which is for our 4-H teens, took place in Duplin County.

The morning started off easily playing games and giving everyone a chance to get to know each other.  We had a group trivia challenge,  and some team building exercises.  Fun thinks like the human knot, Rock Paper Scissors (on steroids), Board games, Corn Hole and more.

After a lunch of pizza, salad, and cookies for dessert it was time to get down to business.  Our first set of workshops included, para cord keychains, Wild Life Education, and Games.  In the Para Cord workshop our youth made key chains with compasses.  Our youth had a ton of fun learning how to make these.  Our wildlife group got a first hand experience with hypothermia.  After sticking their hands in ice water for 30 seconds they had to try to retrieve coins from a cooler of ice water.  It sounds a lot easier than it is.  One group was learning new games from board games to card games and good sportsmanship as part of the games.  they were having a lot of fun.

 

After a quick break it was time for round two of workshops.  The choices this time were First Aid, Games, and Plant Identification.  Our youth in first aid went through a triage situation and had to figure out how to handle situations they were given on a card.  Let's just say there was a lot of out of the box thinking on how to splint broken appendages and cuts.  Our Plant Identification group learned about breaking plants down into different groups based on the type of leaf and how to identify them.  Our folks playing games learned new card games, playing word banana and other fun things while gaining decision making skills, critical thinking, and goods sportsmanship skills.  Let's just say there were a lot of smiles all around.

Around three we we had a quick snack break and then it was time for the business meeting.  After a brief announcement about Teen Retreat on March 17-18 we shut things down, said our goodbyes, and headed home.  It seems that everyone had a really great time!