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Cloverbuds
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Hi! Welcome to the part of the 4-H web site made just for YOU! Here are some games, fun things to do, and cool web sites for 4-H Cloverbuds (boys and girls who are in 4-H and are 5, 6, or 7 years old and not yet in third grade).
Link to the 4-H Cloverbud Connections Newsletter from OSU: http://cloverbudconnections.osu.edu/
Each month we will be featuring a couple of pictures from county fair. Check back each month to see Cuyahoga's finest!!!
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Cloverbuds at Fair
1st – Italian Heritage Month – Since pasta is the national food of Italy, make pasta necklaces with your children.
5th – National Family Day – Spend some time with your family members today, have a backyard picnic or go for a walk around the neighborhood and talk about your summer plans.
6th – National Hug Holiday Week – Have your children make Free Hug coupons to give to friends and family members.
8th – National Frozen Yogurt Month – Provide regular and frozen yogurt for a taste test. Give children squares of construction paper on which to write why they preferred the regular or frozen yogurt. Create a bar graph by having children group and assemble the squares on another piece of paper.
16th – Valentina Tereshkova become the first woman in space on this day in 1963. Have children draw today’s rocket ships and what they think they will look like in the future.
21st – Summer Solstice – Today is the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. Have your children draw pictures that illustrate summertime fun.
28th – Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month – Have children research which fruits and vegetables are planted and/or harvested in June.
29th – Fireworks Safety Month – Stress to children the dangers of playing with fireworks. Then, have them make posters about fireworks safety.
Read in June
Here are some books to share with your children to enhance the enjoyment of reading in June.
Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae
® Fun poems describe various sea creatures.
® Have your child choose a favorite animal, write a poem about it, then illustrate the animal.
Creeps from the Deep by Leighton R. Taylor
® Photographs show the reader first-hand what life is like at the bottom of the ocean.
® Pretend you and your child are in a submarine. Take turns describing the creature you both see on the journey.
How to Hide an Octopus by Ruth Heller
® Illustrations and rhyming text inform readers about the camouflage techniques of several different sea creatures.
® Have your child draw and cut out a large octopus shape. Take turns hiding and finding the octopus.
In the Swim by Douglas Florian
® Features short poems and watercolor paintings, each focusing on a different fresh or saltwater creature.
® Make ocean animal puppets with your child by drawing and cutting out pictures of the animals. Tape the pictures to drinking straws and use them to create an underwater skit.
Into the Sea
Budding marine biologists can get their feet wet with this fun, information about the mysterious ocean-dwelling creatures.
Did you know?
® Many sea creatures, including the octopus, crab, and starfish, can grow new legs is they are damaged or lost.
® Many fish have dark-colored backs and glow-in-the-dark spots on their bellies so that they are camouflaged to fish looking up at them into lighter water above, or down at them through darker water below.
® Sharks are vertebrates, but do not have any bones! Their skeletons are made from cartilage, the same material that forms human ears and noses.
Scale a Fish
Make quite a catch with these colorful paper fish. Provide shiny wrapping paper, heavy duty aluminum foil, a hole punch and a large bowl. Punch holes in the wrapping paper and foil over the opening of the bowl. Let children draw a fish on a piece of paper and then have them dot the body of the fish with glue and sprinkle the punched out dots over the body of the fish, creating tine, shiny scales.
Sink or Swim
What do a fish and a submarine have in common? They can both sink or float by taking air in or pushing it out! Submarines have special tanks that fill with water when the sub needs to dive deep into the water, and then fill with air (which is lighter then water) when the sub needs to rise toward the surface. Fish have similar “tanks”, call swim bladders, which let air in and out to help them rise and sick in the water. For your group, provide a clear container almost full of water, two balloons, and two marbles. Push a marble into the neck of each balloon. Blow air into one balloon and tie it at the neck. Tie the empty balloon close to the marble. What will happen when the balloons are submerged? Put both balloons in the water and record any observations. The does the balloon with air float and the balloon without air sink? Which balloon represents a fish’s swim bladder when it is deep in the water, and which represents a swim bladder when it is close to the surface?
Light up my Life
Children will be all aglow when they create their own glow- in –the –dark deep sea creatures. Some sea creatures, such as the angler fish, some sea cucumbers, and the hatchet fish, live too deep in the ocean for natural light to reach them. These creatures have special cells in certain parts of their bodies that create their own light? This light is called bioluminescence. Show pictures of these fish and let your children create brand new deep sea creatures with unique features, using glow-in-the-dark paint to add details. Then the bioluminescent creature s are complete, darken the room and “swim” the creatures through the dark.
Tide pool Toss
This game is sure to make a big splash! Sea Urchins, mussels, crabs, anemones, and starfish live in shallow pools of water, called tide pools, which form on rocks or sand when the tide is out. The shallow pools get a lot of sunlight, which gives energy to various algae and seaweeds. These plants feed the plant eaters in the tide pools, which in turn feed neat eaters like crabs and starfish. Place a large sheet of butcher paper on to floor and decorate it like a tide pool. Have children stand back from the paper and try to “feed” their beanbag starfish by tossing them onto other animals in the tide pool. Award 1 point for landing on an animal, no points for landing anywhere else in the tide pool, and subtract 2 points for landing outside the tide pool (since starfish can die outside of a tide pool). Reward players with star fruit, star-shaped cookies, or stickers.
