Judging Day at the Fair

Whatta busy day at the Schaghticoke Fair. I only saw 6 of our 10 families - and didn't get pictures of EVERYONE - the day gets long doesn't it. WELL DONE - the kids did a lot of line standing and faced the judges. I saw a lot of sheets with a lot of blue ribbons.
WELL DONE! I can't wait to see it all on Wednesday when it's all there, arranged, and wonderful.
Here are more of our items on disiplay Melanie's frame, Grace's journal that ALyssa helped her make, Ingrid's painting, and maybe a few others in the background. Love the ski mug Mel!

Speaking of Melanie - here she faces de judge with her cookbook. How'd that turn out? Well I hope. A few more of "our" grey clad bunch. THANKS folks for wearing our LOGO today. Nice for folks to see where ya come from. Here Will, Hannah and INgrid wait for the Food Judge who was looking at Cookbooks. Donna looks on from behind. Do I see her sticking her toungue out at me????

Grace and Eliza face the JUDGE of Record Books - Well done girls. I think they both got BLUE ribbons.While the kids work was being judged - some of the kids and parents put the fair displays together. Here is our outdoor display. It features a picnic table (courtesy of Green Earthlings - THANK YOU VERY MUCH), a campfire (behind one of those pine trees that decided to survive the winter), and lots of MUMS - Thanks DONNA for the Mums, Barb for the poster & Banner, and Cindy for the faux food!! In this display we encourage everyone to enjoy family time together outdoors. Thanks to all who helped get this together today!

Here are a bunch of the kids now "judged" sewing items. I'm sure the 4H'ers will arrange it all nicely before the fair opens on Wednesday. I see our kids cross stitch, some notebook covers, a cuple of quilts, a dress and an apron......

And - here is our indoor display. This features an apron , samples of our planning sheets, the group rotation schedule, a cookbook, and pictures from all of our meals this year. Even better - all the kids narratives about the 4H LIFE SKILLS are on display. THANKS everyone for your support getting this together. I know it was a tad boring - and the writing was hard. You did a great job.

Indoor Fair Display

Hopefully this will look good in person - I realize the picture is TOO small for you to really see what it's all about.

WELL done everyone getting those cards written out - take some time to read this and enjoy the pictures of all our cooking this past year!

We did a lot of cooking and a lot of learning about a lot of LIFE SKILLS!

and.... we made Thrills & Skills cookbooks

Here is our bunch of SKILLED 4H members - - - - - well, maybe here they more resemble 4H THRILL seekers!

Today was a second hard day of work getting ready for the fair. I was impressed to have 12 kids come back for a second dose of work! THANKS everyone -

Leave it to Mrs. G. No simple little collection of paper will do. NOPE - we BOUND our cookbooks. Here everyone gets to work cutting the cover papers. Aren't they pretty? Wills was handsome!

And then it got a tiny bit complicated - - Little pieces, cut corners just so - lots of glue spread evenly, folding tight round the corners. But we did a great job of paying attention and working together.

This even involved a needle and thread. a MIGHTY big and SHARP needle actually. Some were meticulous about making the holes 1" apart here....

It was tricky to put the sticky two-sided paper down and have it all line up right. Here Kathleen has her block of paper ready for sewing. Alyssa is hard at work too.

Maeve - with a beautiful creation. LOOK For it at the fair everyone! I'm hoping for a blue ribbon! Here are all of the books. Such a lovely display -nice work everyone.

Speaking of displays... everyone looks great and happy. LOVE IT!

SOMEONE likes BIG GIRL SHOES - they are "so so petty".

A Day of WORK to get ready for the Fair.......

We had lots of work to do - We worked on expressing our thoughts about the 4H Life Skills circle - it was hard work.
...lots of hard work.

we worked on record books. Labeling our entries and filling out the entry forms. Some spent time with needle & thread and sewing machines finishing up projects. Later - Mrs. Fox came to do a Mary Kay Skin Care party. Everyone enjoyed the time and learned a lot about taking good care of their skin. Her parting words were somethign like"water, rest, healthy fruits and veggies, and wash your face twice a day"...

I saw lots of smiles around the table...

Lots of them...

yes - indeed - very happy smiles!

Fair Clean-Up Day

Summer has gone all to fast - and it's already time to clean out the 4H building at the fair. Here we are with some dedicated 4H'ers from Green Earthlings and others weeding out the fair plot. THANKS to all who helped us!
There were a LOT of weeds.

We did a lot of arranging inside too. Here some of our Jr. Thrills & Skills'ers arrange things for the Fashion Display. SO helpful - SO cute.......