CLOVERBUDS & KH4H ~ September Meeting Agenda

DATE

Tuesday, September 21st @6pm

Allen Township Community Building

MEETING TOPIC
It's our final meeting of the year!
We're having an ICE CREAM SOCIAL!
You and your families are invited to join us at this meeting and enjoy some ice cream to help us celebrate another successful year of 4H/Cloverbuds!*

*Please email one of the advisors to let us know if you are attending and how many are in your family so we will be sure to have plenty of ice cream for everyone!

KINDHEARTED ACT

Please bring an ice cream topping to share with everyone!
(We will provide the ice cream, bowls, spoons, and napkins)

ADDITIONAL MEETING INFO
Please wear your KindHearted Cloverbuds or your KH4H T-shirt!
We'll take a final group picture of this year's Cloverbuds as we have several Cloverbuds that will be 'graduating' to 4H next year. We'll also take a last group picture of this year's member of KH4H. We'll be recognizing each of our Cloverbuds & 4H members and presenting them with the pin they've earned for participating in 4H this year! :)

CONTACT ADVISORS
if you have any questions...

Rachel ~ brkscjones@embarqmail.com
Corie ~ payitforward@columbus.rr.com
Lorie ~ loriehaskell@gmail.com

CLOVERBUDS ~ NO August meeting!

No meeting tonight, Cloverbuds! We are taking the month of August off to recover from the Fair and Back-to-School madness :)

We hope everyone enjoyed the Union County Fair this year. So many of our Cloverbuds entered Open Class projects with wonderful results. We can't wait to hear about everyone's Fair experiences at our next meeting!

Our September meeting will on Tuesday, September 21st, at 6pm, and will be our final meeting of the year. We will post more details soon!

CLOVERBUDS ~ July Meeting Agenda

DATE

Tuesday, July 20th @6pm
Allen Township Community Building

MEETING TOPIC
Creating a Photography or Creative Arts
entry for the Union County Fair

KINDHEARTED ACT
Our club is sponsoring a 4H award for the fair!

Our KindHearted Cloverbuds are partnering with KH4H to sponsor 2 awards. One award is for Scrapbooking and the other will be an animal award.

What a super way to be KIND HEARTED!
We will talk more about this at our meeting :)

ADDITIONAL MEETING INFO
Our Goal for this meeting will be to have each Cloverbud create an entry to enter in the Union County Fair. We will have the rules and entry forms available and will give instructions on how to enter these projects in the Fair.

We are planning to focus our meeting on photography and are hoping each child interested in entering a photograph in the Fair can bring a digital camera to the meeting to shoot pictures. Our hope is that one of these pictures will be entered into the Fair in the Open Class Photography Department. We are planning to contact a local photographer to come to our meeting and talk to us about how to take great photos.
Here is a list of just some of the Photography categories:
(can be either COLOR or BLACK & WHITE)

• Animals
  
• Children
• Humorous
• Nature
• Landscape/Seascape
• Sunrise/Sunset
• Night Scene
• Action sport
• Still life flowers/fruit

For the Cloverbuds not interested in photography or unable to bring a digital camera, we will have supplies available for working on a drawing, watercolor painting or mixed media art project. Our hope is that one of these art projects will be entered in the Fair in the Open Class Creative Arts Department.

Here is a list of just some of the Creative Arts categories:

• Portrait
• Landscape/Seascape
  
• Still Life
• Union County Subject
  

You are welcome to bring along anything that you would like to photograph or draw or paint a picture of...a bowl of fruit, a vase of flowers, a picture of the beach that you'd like to like paint or draw...the ideas are endless! Start thinking about what you'd like to do and we will see you on July 20th!

CONTACT ADVISORS
if you have any questions :)

Rachel ~ brkscjones@embarqmail.com
Corie ~ payitforward@columbus.rr.com
Lorie ~ loriehaskell@gmail.com

CLOVERBUDS ~ June Meeting Rundown

A BIG THANK YOU to our Cloverbuds who donated healthy snacks for the firemen at the Allen Township Fire House. We had a great time touring their Fire Station and learning about all the many things that firefighters do.

We were reminded to STOP, DROP and ROLL and cover our faces with our hands if our clothes ever catch on fire.

We learned about the gear that firefighters have to wear and that it weighs nearly 50 pounds! They let us listen to the funny sound the firefighters make when they breathe with their masks on (kind of like Darth Vader). They reminded us not to be scared of them when we hear this noise...they are always there to help us!

Before we left, the firefighters gave us all a souvenir fireman hat...what a great end to our meeting!

Our next meeting is July 20th...more info to come soon! :)

CLOVERBUDS ~ June Meeting Agenda

DATE
Tuesday, June 15th @6pm
Allen Township Community Building

MEETING TOPIC
Learn about Fire Fighters
& Tour Allen Township Firehouse


KINDHEARTED ACT
Please bring a healthy food/snack(s) to donate to the Allen Township Fire Fighters. We are suggesting the following ideas, but feel free to bring your own choice of a healthy snack food you think the fire fighters would enjoy!

Kindergarten Cloverbuds: granola bars or oranges

First Grade Cloverbuds: apples, grapes or baby carrots

Second Grade Cloverbuds: bananas or cheese sticks


ADDITIONAL MEETING INFO
We are planning to tour the Allen Township Firehouse during our meeting. We will meet at the Community Building at 6pm and say our pledges before heading over to the Firehouse. The tour will take most of the meeting, so we anticipate not having time for an additional activities this month.
Hope to see you all at the meeting!

CONTACT ADVISORS
if you have any questions :)

Rachel ~ brkscjones@embarqmail.com
Corie ~ payitforward@columbus.rr.com
Lorie ~ loriehaskell@gmail.com

CLOVERBUDS ~ May Meeting Rundown

THANKS FOR A GREAT MAY MEETING!

A BIG THANK YOU to all of our Cloverbuds for the great donations you brought in for the Union County Humane Society (UCHS).

We hope you enjoyed the presentation by Steffen Baldwin, the Executive Director of the UCHS, and his pal, Merlin.

Steffen was able to provide us with lots of good information, including the fact that the UCHS serves over 1,300 stray pets a year! He told it was important to remember that pets always require 3 things: food, water and shelter. He also taught us how to approach a stray dog...first, by being a 'tree' standing still with our chins tucked or by being a 'rock'.

Steffen also read us a story about dogs and taught us that we need to ask the owners of pets for permission to pet their dogs to keep us safe. He said volunteers are always welcome at the Humane Society to help walk dogs and do other helpful things, but first must complete a volunteer orientation that is offered once a month at the library. Also, all volunteers under the age of 16 must have an adult volunteer with them.

To finish up our meeting, we made some photo frames using the wonderful pictures that Miss Corie took of us at our last meeting with Shelby's pet bunny!

We left for home with doggie bags full of puppy chow to finish up our pet themed meeting. Here's the recipe for Puppy Chow if you'd like to make more at home: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1747,133182-252193,00.html

Looking forward to another fun-filled Cloverbud Meeting in June. We are hoping to schedule a tour of the Allen Township Fire Station. Details to follow soon :)

CLOVERBUDS ~ May Meeting Agenda

DATE
Tuesday, May 18th @6pm
Allen Township Community Building

MEETING TOPIC
Pets

KINDHEARTED ACT
Please bring an item(s) to donate to the Union County Humane Society. Some of the items that are most needed at this time include: chew toys for large dogs, kitten food, puppy food, blankets, paper towels, bleach, and HE laundry soap.

The entire wist list for the UCHS can be found here:
http://www.uchspets.org/wishlist.htm


ADDITIONAL MEETING INFO
We are currently working with the Union County Humane Society to schedule a fun demonstration during our meeting. We will also have a quick craft and a small snack during our meeting. Hope to see you all then!

CONTACT ADVISORS
if you have any questions :)

Rachel ~ brkscjones@embarqmail.com
Corie ~ payitforward@columbus.rr.com
Lorie ~ loriehaskell@gmail.com

CLOVERBUDS ~ April Meeting Rundown

Thanks for a wonderful April meeting, Cloverbuds!

A BIG THANK YOU to all of you for donating items for the Personal Needs Pantry! We had such a great time discussing Spring Cleaning with you, and we hope you had fun with our dust pan relay race and our feather duster puppet craft. (Here is a link to the directions for making the puppets in case you'd like to make more at home... http://www.makeandtakes.com/feather-duster-puppets)


Looking forward to a great May Meeting. Details will be posted soon! :)

May Meeting for KH4H

Hello Everyone....just wanted to let you all know that the May 4H meeting will be Sunday, May 16th at 6:30 p.m. at Jack Herbst's house.