Cloverbud Camp and Summer Day Camps

If you have a 5 - 8 year old, consider Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center's summer Cloverbud Camp.  This is a weekend overnight experience designed to introduce younger children to the 4-H camping program.  Cloverbud Camp is June 12 - 14.  The cost is $87 per camper if registered before May 15th.  Many parents are a little nervous about dropping little ones off for an overnight camp. We love parent volunteers at camp!  If you participate in training and sign on to help supervise campers, parents may attend at no cost.  If you would like to come to camp with your child but do not wish to be considered a "trained volunteer," you have the option to attend for an additional $87.  The link to the registration form is below.  Feel free to call our office at 392-4246 for more information.

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This is one of my favorite pictures from Cloverbud Camp last year.  My son, completely exhausted at the end of camp, with Heather Benninghove.  Heather was a CIT my first year as an Extension Agent.  She is now the Program Director at the 4-H Center!  We are pretty proud of her around here!

We have also started registration for our summer day camp programs.  We are excited to offer Beginner Sewing, Baking 101, Baking 102, Eat Your Heart Out (all about local foods), and What's Cookin.  For more information, check out the link to the registration form below:

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So We've Been a Little Busy...

Spring has definitely sprung around here.  We have been crazy busy in the world of 4-H.  4-H Camp registration is ongoing.  We have spaces left for both boys and girls.  Remember that early bird pricing ends on April 30th.  If you are thinking about registering, hurry! 

Holiday Lake 4-H Center is now accepting registrations for Cloverbud Camp, June 12 - 14.  This is an overnight camp for youth ages 5 - 8.  Call our office at 392-4246 for a registration form. 

We are excited to offer 5 day camps this summer:  Beginner Sewing, Baking 101, Baking 102, Eat Your Heart Out (all about local food), and What's Cookin'.  We will post more info on those soon or you can call the office for details.

I added a few pics from our recent programs so you can see a little of what we do around here. 

We had 22 students represent Prince Edward County at Central District Contests!  Sorry about the terrible picture, but we are so proud of them.  Our elementary school students did 4-H Presentations and our middle schoolers presented Science Fair projects!

Eighth graders from PECMS and third graders from PECES recently visited the 4-H Center for some Natural Resource Education programs.  I got to hang out in the creek with the big kids and dig in the soil with the little ones!

Our livestock club, with sponsorship from Southern States, offered the first annual Livestock Show Demo Day at the livestock market in Blackstone.  Thanks to Betsy Jenkins, our club leader, for organizing this event.  Club members and parents from multiple counties learned about animal nutrition, clipping, and showmanship. 

We had a full house for our first ever Spring Break Sewing Day Camp.  The participants made cool little clutch bags complete with a button and button hole!  I think we all learned something new! 

Our Kids for Cats Club visited the SPCA and took donations of homemade goodies for the animals.  They made these treats and toys during a workshop led by 4-H'er and Girl Scout Silver Award candidate Katie Angle.  Thanks, Katie!

We hosted our second Reality Store event at PECMS for 8th graders.  They were assigned a job and a family situation and had to make a month's worth of financial decisions.  I think it was a real eye-opener.  My favorite comment from a student, "Kids are expensive!"  I had to laugh.  Thanks to a great group of volunteers for making that program possible. 

Our sewing club had their final meeting of the school year this week.  Each participant finished her scalloped bag.  We learned lots of lessons not only about the art of sewing but about the mechanics of the sewing machine.  We changed broken needles, practiced threading and re-threading, learned what NOT to do (i.e. sew with the foot up), and that feed dogs move up and down.  It was a true "Learn by Doing" experience!  Our FCS Agent, Caitlin Miller, did a great job as lead instructor.  She is very talented.

...and April used to be a slow month! :)