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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.
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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
- Activities
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.
- 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
- Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear by Brenda Williams
- Cloverbud Engineering Adventure
- From the Big Book of 4-H Cloverbud Activities
Finishers
- Recreation
- Pass an Animal
- Seal Trainer
- Habitat Scramble
- Refreshments
- Fresh Water Fish
- Pudding Bear Paw
- Fruit Lizard
- Forest Tree