WONDERING HOW YOU CAN GET A 4-H PROJECT BOOK?
Well the 4-H Advisory Committee has decided to help cover the additional costs of all project books and resource books for each family, if the family saves and returns a receipt for their online book order to the OSU Extension office.
Traditionally, 4-H Advisory Committee doesn’t pay for resource books, but they have decided to pay the difference this year. For example, the beef resource book is $15.50 when purchasing at the office, but online it’s $20. This year, 4-H Committee will help pay the difference of $4.50. Remember, only one species resource book is needed per family depending on which species youth are showing.
While county offices are closed and local distribution of project books is on hold, choose one of these methods:
- Download one for free – A special collection of 20 project books is available for free on the Perfect Stay-at-Home Projects web page. Click on the book you want, and when the file opens on your screen, save or print it from there. Horseless Horse and Science Fun with Physics were added recently.
- Make sure the 4-H member is enrolled in the project before dedicating time to complete the project. (For accessible formats of these publications, visit cfaes.osu.edu/accessibility.)
- Buy one online – If you would like to buy a print copy of a Perfect Stay-at-Home project or any other project book, you can order directly from extensionpubs.osu.edu with one of these special discounts for Ohio residents: FREE2020 (for free shipping) OR 20IN2020 (20% off the entire order). Use the coupon that works best for you. Orders can be shipped directly to a person’s home as long as it is an Ohio address.
- In order to purchase online, a credit card is needed. All families will have to pay the costs upfront, and, due to the current global pandemic, families will have to wait to be reimbursed from what 4-H Committee decided to cover this year.
- Please review your order carefully. Extension Publishing is unable to take returns. There is no restriction on the number of times a coupon can be used. See printable ordering instructions HERE.
- Make your own – If you would rather not purchase a book in this way, self-determined projects are an excellent choice for self-motivated members eager to get started by creating their own projects. Although self-determined projects may be better suited for older 4-H members, they are available for any member and are often based on idea starters already available online. Many of the idea starters are great stay-at-home projects too, for example, Music, Bats, String Art, Climate Change, American Sign Language, etc. One called My Stay-at-Home Summer just became available! (For project judging, self-determined projects are judged in self-determined categories.)
**Tractor project book update: these are supplied from the Purdue Extension Education Store, which is temporarily closed. Keep checking back or consider another project. Not Just Knots perhaps?
If you have any questions, please feel free to call the OSU Extension office at 740-962-4854.