Cloverbud Meeting Menu – 2025

Theme: Flying High with Ohio 4-H Cloverbuds

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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
  • Have you ever taken a plane ride before?
  • What is your favorite place to go on vacation?
  • What is the best trip you have ever been on?
  • What is your favorite thing that flies?
  • If you could be any superhero that flies. Which one would you be?
  • The President’s plane is named Air Force One. If you had a plane, what would you name it?
  • Would you want to be an astronaut and fly on a space shuttle?
  • Would you rather fly on an airplane or a helicopter?
• Ice Breakers
  • Paper Airplane Icebreaker
  • Thing that Fly Icebreaker
  • Toss a Name
  • Packing a Suitcase

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.
  • Hot Air Balloons
  • 4-H Flight Bingo
  • Kites
  • Taking an Airplane Trip
  • History of Flight with a Nature Scavenger Hunt
  • Things that Fly
  • Wright Flyer
  • NASA Aeronautics With You When You Fly: Aeronautics for Pre-K

• Ala Carte Resources
  • From the Big Book of 4-H Cloverbud Activities
    • Making Air Work – page 12
  • Cloverbud Reading Adventures
    • Wood, Wire, Wings by Kirsten Larson
    • Violet the Pilot by Steve Breen
  • From National 4-H
    • Aerospace Adventures Level 1: Pre – Flight
• Field Trip Ideas
  • The Ohio State University Airport Columbus, Ohio https://osuairport.org/community/visit-airport Website features coloring pages, scavenger hunt for the airport, Virtual Flight video
  • WACO Learning Center & Air Museum Troy, Ohio https://www.wacoairmuseum.org/
  • National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Dayton, Ohio https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
  • Armstrong Air & Space Museum Wapakoneta, Ohio https://www.armstrongmuseum.org/
• Cloverbud Engineering Adventure
  • Find information about the current year’s Engineering Adventure here:https://u.osu.edu/cloverbudconnections/engineering-adventure/
  • The Cloverbud Engineering Adventure gives young children the opportunity to create, engineer and problem solve using STEM skills. A yearly theme directs their exploration which includes activities at club meetings, field trips, guest speakers and more. The Engineering Adventure is designed so that it could be fill all Cloverbud meetings for the year. A guide is available that includes resources to help club advisors guide the exploration.

 Finishers

• Recreation
  • Flying Through Hoops
  • Pack a Suitcase
  • Fly or Not
• Refreshments
  • Airplane Propeller Banana Snack
  • Edible Airplane
  • Hot Air Balloon Apple Snacks