Pre-Teen Fun Day & Cabin Fever Workshop

Saturday, Feb. 18 was a fun day for 4H kids & adults. Many members from our group participated in the activities that Teen Council provided during Pre-Teen Fun Day.

The kids got to make lots of recycled projects such as Recycled Paper, a drink coaster made from an old CD, a bird feeder made out of plastic containers and Dog Toys made from old T-shirts! Some of our Senior members were even involved in planning and teaching throughout the day. If you have any pictures from the day, please share them with Mrs. Corcoran and she'll put them up on the blog for all to enjoy. Thanks!


Here are a few of Nessa's finished projects... her T-shirt dog toy, her recycled paper dog, and her CD coaster. Nice work!

Here's Maeve's recycled paper star.


Maeve couldn't finish her bird feeder at the event... but here she is finishing it at home....


And.... the fun wasn't just for the kids! 4H adults (parents, volunteers and leaders) participated in the Cabin Fever Workshop. We crocheted an Apple Cozy - perfect for your lunchbox so that your apple arrives at lunch with no bruises and ready to enjoy.


Here are Mrs. Corcoran's finished apple cozies... all ready to be filled and packed into lunch boxes when school is back in session after vacation! Aren't they so cute? :o)

Trash to Treasure!

What an awesome meeting tonight! We got to make some really interesting Market Bags, Pencil Cases, Back Packs, Lunch Sacks, etc. - all from Recycled Feed Sacks! That's right The Thrills & Skills 4 H group were personally responsible for keeping at least a dozen Feed Sacks out of the Landfills! Nice work everyone!

The Morton's, Corcoran's and even Cindy from our local Brunswick Agway provided us with the feed sacks. Here are Hannah and Grace choosing which they will use to make their project.

Gabby and Mrs. Renna get to work on Gabby's bag.

Nessa and Mrs. Corcoran work on Nessa's lunch sack.And, in just under 2 hours just about everyone finished one project or another. Such variety, such style! Way to go Thrills & Skills-ers! Save those cool bags to bring to the fair!

Thanks, too, to Maeve, Nessa and Beibhinn's Grammy for supplying us with the zippers! They worked great!


Thanks, also to Bernadine Wiesen from the 4H office for coming to our "pre-meeting" this evening and talking with many of the families about the Pheasant Rearing Project we are looking to pursue this Spring!

Here we are watching a short video about the program. It was a great chance for the kids to learn first hand about the program and get many of their questions answered. The adults in attendance learned a lot, too! Thanks Mrs. Wiesen for taking your time to meet with us!

Survivor Bracelets

What do you do with about a billion yards of cording and some buckles? A 4H craft project, of course!

Mrs. Morton led this month's craft project and what a fun project it turned out to be - Survivor Bracelets! She shared with us that originally soldiers in the Vietnam War developed this project as a way of carrying some cord with them everywhere they went, just in case they needed it to... SURVIVE!

While we may not need to use our cord to 'survive in a hostile situation', we could use it to help make our lives a little easier.... say, for instance, your hiking boot lace breaks while you are out hiking? Or, "Oh, no! My backpack zipper broke! Now what?" - lucky for you, your Survivor Bracelet has 10 feet of super strong cord in it. All you have to do is unwind it, and tie it around your bag, re-lace your shoe, or use it in whatever way you can think of.... then, retie it and have it ready for the next emergency!

Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Corcoran prepared "starter bracelets" for everyone.
Everyone got right to work on their bracelets. (Nice nails, Maeve!)

Ummmm Gabby, how did you manage to do this sideways? Again, I can't seem to reformat these... any help would be appreciated!






Everyone seemed to catch on to the macrame style knotting we needed to complete the projects! In fact, I am almost certain that EVERYONE completed their bracelet (or collar as in Adam's case!!)

Remember to hold on to these bracelets as an item to enter in the Schaghticoke Fair in August! We hope to see lots of Blue Ribbons for the work you put into these!






Want to learn a bit more? Here's a website I found.
The definition of a "Survival Bracelet"

http://www.authorpalace.com/recretion-and-leisure/outdoors/camping/paracord-survival-bracelets-definition.html