Construction Paper and Glue

Published: 2022
By Jill Dale

When you look into a room of giggling 5-8 year-olds working on a craft project, you may only see scraps of paper and glue stuck to everything BUT the paper. What you don’t see is that these emerging minds are developing creativity, building confidence, and forging new friendships, which is the foundation of things learned through 4-H. The 4-H program uses experiential learning to help youth become responsible, caring, and contributing leaders. This year the Big Horn County 4-H Cloverbuds received a People Partner grant from the MT 4-H Foundation to make 100 “Care Packages” that they distributed at the local fair and in the community. They made Valentines for a local nursing home, participated in public speaking and assisted in club highway cleanups. The future looks bright for 4-H in Big Horn County where Cloverbuds are learning to use their Heads, Hearts, Hands, and Health to make the world around them a better place.