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4-H Friday Newsletter - Friday, April 19, 2024
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Roberts School Boys and Girls Club Joins 4-H Art Club

Roberts Boys and Girls Club members in first and second grade had the opportunity to join the 4-H Art Club. The club will meet over 6 weeks and explore different types of art media! They learned in week 1 about colors and had the opportunity to apply what they learned by painting suncatchers. In week 2, the youth learned about pastels and practiced techniques, and compared oil and chalk pastels. It was unanimous that chalk pastels were the preferred media of the group. 
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Multi-state "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" 4-H
Photo Contest

Minnesota 4-H Photography is excited to offer another multi-state photography contest open to youth in grades K-13!
Select your best photo (with no or minimal editing) and submit it with up to two sentences that explains why it’s special to you! More information and rules for the challenge can be found at: 4-H Hit Me with Your Best Shot Photo Contest | UMN Extension with rules available here.
Submit one (1) jpg or jpeg image and statement to fourhphoto@umn.edu by 11:59 p.m. (CST) on May 1, 2024. Volunteer 4-H photography judges will provide feedback via a slideshow. Top photos will be recognized with a prize and random prize drawing winners will also receive a gift.
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An orange pumpkin with warts decorated as a witch and a green pumpkin with green 4-H clovers are laying on the grass.

Cloverbud Pumpkin Contest

Cloverbuds will receive pumpkin seeds to plan for the annual pumpkin contest held in the fall. It will be on a Saturday in October. Pumpkins are evaluated on being the largest, roundest, smallest and other categories. Club leaders will receive seeds to distribute to all the Cloverbud members in their clubs. Along with the seeds, the cloverbuds will receive tips on how to grow the pumpkins.
If you don’t have room to grow pumpkins, the seeds can be planted in the community gardens located on the corner of Grove Street and Pioneer Rd in FdL. If you’d like to reserve a spot, please call the Extension Office at 920-929-3171.

Day Camp Youth Leaders Wanted

We are seeking youth leaders to help teach activities during our Day Camps this summer! If you are interested in helping with any of the day camp opportunities, please reach out to Tracy for more details! You can contact her at (920)-896-3360 or tracy.keifenheim@wisc.edu. Youth leaders should reach out to Tracy by Friday, May 17. 

Day Camps Offered are:

  • Around the World
  • Art
  • Cardboard 
  • Cloverbud
  • Foodie
  • LEGO
  • STEM
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Fond du Lac County Junior Park Ranger Program

Fond du Lac County Parks Department is starting a hands-on program in our county parks for children. This program will be our “Junior Park Ranger” program. It does not require children to do any “work”, but it is intended to get kids visiting and enjoying our county parks system.

This program is beginning now and will continue on through the end of summer. The program will wrap up on September 8, 2024. Each child must complete their own activity to earn their points. Earning points will get them prizes. Each activity completed is worth 10 points. There are three opportunities worth 5 additional bonus points each.

The prizes are as follows:
60 points = Junior Park Ranger keychain
120 points = Junior Park Ranger T-Shirt

To redeem prizes, the child would bring one of the attached sheets along with photo evidence of completion to the Parks/Planning Department, located at the City/County Government Center. The address is 160 S. Macy Street in Fond du Lac. The office is located on the 4th floor. All prizes must be redeemed by September 30, 2024.

We hope to get the children in our community involved and interested in our county parks system! Please help us in promoting this program!
Gray Junior Ranger badge with Fond du Lac County Parks Department seal in the middle - white lighthouse with the sun, trees, and a trail in the background.
Rules for the Junior Park Ranger Challenge program with a yellow, blue, and green border along with a QR code to register.

2024 June Dairy Day Celebration

Saturday, June 1

Summer is just around the corner, and it’s time to start thinking about the Annual June Dairy Month June Dairy Day.  The Envision Greater Fond du Lac Agri-Business Council, in partnership with National Exchange Bank and Trust, invites the community to the 39th Annual June Dairy Days Celebration on Saturday, June 1. The event will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. near National Exchange Bank and Trust, 130 South Main Street in Fond du Lac. This free, community appreciation event is open to the public.
If your 4-H club would like to sponsor a dairy game, serve cheese samples, or help work the games, please give us a call. We invite your club to participate. Join us in our efforts to promote June Dairy Month! Please let us know by Monday, May 20, 2024 if you would like to participate.
For more details, call Amy Ries at 920.322.2292 or email at aries@envisiongreaterfdl.com. 
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Volunteer Shout Out Campaign

National Volunteer Week, celebrated in April, is an opportunity to salute you, the 4-H volunteer! Thank you for giving your all to make your club environment a place where young people can belong, grow, learn, be challenged, have fun, and give back. Your passion to make the 4-H experience meaningful and memorable is commendable. The 4-H program would not exist without the volunteers! We will be celebrating in various ways throughout the week of April 21-27. One way to help us celebrate all the wonderful volunteers is to nominate a volunteer you would like to recognize for doing an awesome job! You can nominate them by filling out a quick form online or emailing Tracy a photo of the volunteer you are nominating and why you are nominating them. Find more information here https://fonddulac.extension.wisc.edu/thank-a-4-h-volunteer/.
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April: 

National Volunteer Week April 21-27

Connecting Volunteers: The Heart of 4-H 

Teen Leaders Association

  • April 22, 7:00 pm, Rolling Meadows Meeting Room

LEGO Club

  • April 23, 6:30 pm, UWO Fond du Lac Campus

Adult Leaders Association Meeting

  • April 30, 6:30 pm, UWO Fond du Lac Campus
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Photo of Tracy Keifenheim. She has brown hair and a cream colored shirt and black sweater on. Photo of Tina Engelhardt. She has blonde hair with a black cardigan over a red shirt. Photo of Kelsey Beine. She has long brown hair and is wearing a red shirt.
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