Cloverbud Meeting Menu (New for 2024!)

Click here for the complete packet which includes all featured activities: 2024 Going Wild with Ohio 4-H Cloverbud Meeting Menu

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Ohio 4-H Professionals have created the Ohio 4-H Cloverbud Meeting Menu for volunteers to use with Cloverbud Club members at your meetings. The Menu is a tool to help you serve up an exciting year of Cloverbud meetings. You can choose from a selection of components to engage your 4-H Cloverbuds.  You will find a variety of activities, games and snacks all based around a yearly theme.

House Specials

These tools can be used every year.

• Sample Meeting Agenda
  • Pledge of Allegiance and 4-H Pledge*
  • Roll Call*
  • Short Activities using Ohio Cloverbud Resources or other approved activities.
  • Recreation*
  • Refreshments*
    • * These activities might be done with the older community club members
• Every Year Tools
  • Planning Tools
    • Cloverbud Meeting Planning Template
    • Welcome to Cloverbuds Letter
  • Activities
    • 4-H Pledge Activity
    • Find a Cloverbud Who…

Starters

Fun ways to start your time together with your Cloverbuds. You might do these things with the older members of the club or just with your Cloverbuds.

• Roll Call
  • Favorite animal
  • Favorite place to take a hike
  • Make a wild animal sound
  • Favorite activity to do outside
  • Favorite animal sound
  • What famous animal movie character do you like most?
  • If you could be any animal, which would you be?
  • Which habitat would you rather live in? A forest, the arctic or the ocean
  • Favorite flower
  • Name of a pet you have
• Ice Breakers
  • Animal Name Game
  • Animal Charades
  • Animal Pictionary
  • Clover Cubes
  • This or That
  • Guess Who

Main Course

A variety of activities to choose from for the main part of your meeting.

• Featured Specials – This collection of lessons are designed to specifically go with the theme.
  • A Long Winter’s Nap
  • Be a Nature Detective
  • Create a Pet
  • From Polliwog to Grown Up Frog
  • Insect Detectives
  • Nature Color Match
  • The Nature Connection: Get Your Cloverbuds Outside with Scavenger Hunts
  • The Wonderful World of Worms
  • Spark the Joy of Hiking

• Ala Carte Resources
  • From the Big Book of 4-H Cloverbud Activities
    • Habitats Are Homes – page 113
    • Wildlife – page 117
    • Our Feathered Friends – page 212
    • Ant Antics – page 222
    • Nature Fun – page 85
  • Cloverbud Reading Adventures
    • Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear by Brenda Williams
    • The Umbrella by Jan Brett
    • The Beeman by Laurie Krebs
    • Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
    • The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
    • Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? By Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
    • We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
  • Cloverbud Engineering Adventure
    • 2024 Theme – Going Wild!

 Finishers 

• Recreation
  • Pass an Animal
  • Seal Trainer
  • Habitat Scramble
• Refreshments
  • Fresh Water Fish
  • Pudding Bear Paw
  • Fruit Lizard
  • Forest Tree