4-H Club Program Ideas Updated August 2009 Here is a brief listing of ideas that you can do within your 4-H club year. You and your club members do not have to follow this list, it is just a tool to help you in brainstorming what your club members would like to participate in. The main thing to keep in mind when planning your club year is that you have suggestions from the club members to help in the planning and even implementation of the activity or event. Note: Names, places and availability are subject to change.

Program Ideas

Title of Program

Contact Person

Phone

4-H Presentations

Over 20 topics to choose from Go-carts, batting cages, miniature golf, arcade games, laser tag 4-H Curriculum: (example-grapes & a light bulb)

Call the 4-H office for more info Raleigh, NC

237-0113

Club leaders, Science teachers or Extension staff

237-0113

Jeff Wingfield & Tanya Heath Tricia Scott Kay Bunch Arts Council

291-5032 284-4165 237-8266 291-4329

Adventure Landing

Acres of Adventures

All About Sheep Animal Science ARC Art

Skillathon Mock Contest

919-433-7888

Local Artists: Guilford Leggett (contact 4-H office for info)

Baby Think It Over Babysitting

Great for all youth ages 11 & up Babysitting savvy

4-H Summer Educator Lynn Keenan Candace Murray or Tanya Heath American Red Cross Libby Privette or volunteer

919-934-1792 237-0112 237-2171

Debbie Skinner 237-0113 Beautification Projects Bees & Honey Birds

Adopt a Highway

Solid Waste Management

Adopt a Street The Pollinators

LuAnn Munson, City of Wilson Charles & Debbie Hancock

Sylvan Heights Bird Sanctuary

Scotland Neck, NC www.sylvanheights.com

252-235-4473 252-289-0868 252-826-3186

Birdhouse Kits Available ($5.00) Build –a-Bear Butterfly Garden

Butterfly Career Development Carolina Mudcats Baseball CATCH program

4-H Staff

237-0113

(Crabtree Mall)

Buildabear.com Cyndi Lauderdale or Master Gardener

919-787-8993 237-0113

Life Cycle Program (grow your own butterflies) Career Smarts

Debbie Skinner

237-0113

Tanya Heath Alaina Bloodworth

237-0113 252-269-2287

Fishing, equipment id

CPR Choosing a College

Communications Toolkit Commercial Horticulture

Curriculum – library resource (Sweetpotatoes, melons, cucumbers & more) Take a tour of a local produce stand or go to the farm and dig ‘taters, pick cucumbers, melons, etc.)

Crafts Creative/Recycled Arts Crop Production

Scrap Exchange: Turning trash into treasures Corn, Soybeans, Cotton, etc.

4-H staff Ricky Hayes American Red Cross Libby Privette School Counselor or Wilson Community College Representative 4-H club leaders or 4-H staff

237-0113 237-5147 237-2171

Billy Little – expert

237-0111

Deans Farm

237-0967

Debbie Skinner Alaina Bloodworth Scrap Exchange – Durham, NC Alan Clemans

237-0113

Norman Harrell

237-0111

237-0113

919-286-2559

Youth Ag. Crops Contest Dental Health Drama

Youth Theater Education

Drug Awareness

Electricity

Make your own soda can Lamp

Dental Hygenist, Dentist, Orthodontist Arts Council or local actor/actress Sherrif’s Dept., Police Dept., Families in Action (Phil Morring) Contact 4-H staff for ordering Information

291-4329

237-0113

Electricity

Embryology

Make your own temperature warning alarms & robots Incubating eggs & experiments Lifestyle Development

Endangered Birds Energy Links

4-H Curriculum

Entomology

Bug Out Activities Other 4-H Curriculum Puppet Show Too! Eco-Wonders, EcoAdventures, Eco-Actions

Environmental Educ. Etiquette & Manners Exploring the Treasurers of 4-H

Exploris Museum Field of Genes Financial Planning

Floral Arranging Foods & Nutrition Food Production & Pesticides For The Love Of Dogs Forestry Fossils! Frankie’s Amusement Park Fun on the Farm Tour Gems & Stones

Give to the Troops Goosecreek State Park Gun Safety

Curriculum designed to take one through a variety of topics/projects Biotechnology in Agriculture Great Program for Teens-saving for a car, budgeting, etc. Make your own masterpiece Make your own treats Cycling Back to Nature

David Skinner, Logan Skinner, Brad Askew

237-0113

Debbie Skinner

237-0113

Leon Crumpler, Wilson Community College Club Leaders or Science Teacher Master Gardeners, Cyndi Lauderdale

291-1195

4-H Staff

237-0113

4-H Staff

237-0113

Great for new members

237-0113

Raleigh, NC Billy Little, Norman Harrell, Cyndi Lauderdale or 4-H Staff Candace Murray

919-834-3516 237-0111

Candace Murray

237-0112

Candace Murray Ag. Extension Agents Billy, Norman, Cyndi Max & Della Fitzgerald

237-0112 237-0113

Billy Little, Dwight Batts George Powell, Fossil Man Raleigh, NC

237-0111 252-756-8039 919-872-1688

Adam, John & Yvonne Gardener Jacob & Wayne Jesse PO Box 2136 Fremont, NC 27830 Bath, NC Bath, NC

237-0906

Wilson Co. Sheriff’s Dept. Police Dept.; or Sam Craft, Wildlife officer

237-0112

237-0112

252-923-2191 252-923-2191

Health

Health & Fitness Health Programs Home Design Home Horticulture

Health Rocks (preventing drug, tobacco & alcohol use Exercise Class (all kinds, dental, physical, germs, etc.) Creative interior design Landscaping, Greenscaping, Vermicomposting, etc.

Homemade Soaps, Make-up & Skin Care Horse Info

Mounted Police

4-H Staff

237-0113

Local gyms or YMCA Wilson Co. Health Educators

237-3141

Candace Murray Cyndi Lauderdale or Master Gardeners

237-0112 237-0113

Mary Baker

252-749-2091

Karen Bullock, DVM (contact 4-H office for info) REINS volunteers: Kathy Moore Wilson Police Dept

Horse & Livestock

Walter Earle

237-0111

Ice Skating

Ice House, Cary, NC Blades on Ice, Greenville, NC Liz-Anne Earle Alaina Bloodworth Susann Hood

919-467-6000 252-353-8888 284-4067 237-0113 237-5632

Kelli Wingfield Raleigh, NC

291-5032 919919-549-6863

Jewelry Making Jewelry & More Leadership 101 Line Dancing Marbles Museum Morehead Planetarium NC Estuary NC Museum of Natural Sciences NCSU Food Science Department

Studio One

NCSU Livestock Units

Swine, Horse, Beef, Small Ruminate

Natural History Museum Neuse River Nature Center Organization Photography Physical Exercise Plants & Soils Pork Quality Assurance

Astronomy Washington, NC

Time Management Skills

4-H Field Day Health & Games How to make a terrarium

Raleigh, NC

252-948-0000 919-733-7450

Lyn Turner

919-515-2968

Walter Earle

237-0113

Raleigh, NC

919-

Location: Kinston, NC

252-939-3367

Tanya Heath Alaina Bloodworth Alaina Bloodworth Local PE teacher

237-0113

Cyndi Lauderdale or Master Gardener Tanya Heath

237-0113

237-0113

237-0113

Poultry Judging

Tanya Heath

Putt Putt Miniature Golf Rescue Squad Demo

237-6225 Local Rescue Squad, Wilson Co. EMS Alaina Bloodworth

Resume’ Writing Rocketry Rocky Mount/Wilson Airport Safety: Gun, Boating & Hunting Safety Safety: Making your own first aid kits

Blast Off! Aviation

Science

Many programs are outlined for each age group (call for more specific programs) Set up various science experiments for members to do during club time

Science Extravaganza

Scrapbooking Search & Rescue Dog Self Esteem Programs Service Learning Project Sewing Projects Sign Language Small & Companion Animals

Teambuilding Games

237-0113

Lynn & Greg Barnes

239-0422 291-8810

Sam Craft: Wildlife Resources Officer American Red Cross; EMS: Local Fire Dept. 4-H Staff Imagination Station

252-813-0542

Tanya Heath & County Council Officers

237-0113

Alaina Bloodworth Gordon Deno, Wilson Co. EMS

237-0113

4-H Staff

237-0113

4-H Staff & Club Leaders

237-0113

Candace Murray Carol Kyles Variety

237-0112 239-1352

Wintergreen Resort French Swiss Ski Lodge R C Hunt

828-295-9311

4-H Curriculum that is great for all Teens!

4-H Staff or Club Leaders

237-0113

Foods & Nutrition Interactive CD

Candace Murray or Tanya Heath 4-H Staff, County Council Officers

237-0112

4-H Curriculum – Great for Teens!

Make your own dog biscuits, vet visit, humane society speaker, Breeder or trainer visit, K9 police dog

Snow Skiing Southern Farms Southern National Speedway Step up to Leadership (Mentor Guide too) Sybershop

237-0113

Tilapia Farm Tour

237-2171 237-0113 291-05113

235-5325 284-1114

237-0113

Tobacco Farm Life Museum Vet Science

284-3431

Westview Lanes Wildlife

Bowling

Wildlife & Nature Wilson Animal Shelter Wilson Baseball Museum Wilson Medical Hospital Tour Wilson Rose Garden & Wilson Botanical Gardens

Mattamuskeet Lodge

Walter Earle Or local vet

237-0111

Ricky Hayes Wild Turkey Federation Ducks Unlimited Sam Craft, Wildlife Resource Officer Swan Quarter, NC Mickey Wilson Sheriff’s Dept.

237-5147

Fleming Stadium Location

252-926-1422

291-8627 Fran Tyson

399-8107

Cyndi Lauderdale

237-0113

Attention 4-H Club Leaders:

We have over 100 projects to choose from within our 4-H curriculum. If you are having trouble finding projects to do with your club members...pick a topic and do an activity within the curriculum. We want to make 4-H as much HANDS-ON LEARNING as possible. Remember we want 4-H’ers to learn life skills that are based in experimental learning while having fun. The 4-H program also has a check-out system of books, manuals, etc. that you can use to help you design programs for your club meetings. Let us know if you would like to check a book out of our “library”… we would love to help you in planning, so please feel free to call us for suggestions! (List of resources from our 4-H library is attached) Thanks for all you do! Alaina Bloodworth, Extension 4-H Agent Tanya Heath Extension 4-H Agent