Nickels, Nickels, and More Nickels

 Rachel Wilkins joined our 4-H club.  Today was her first day. She will be a clover bud. Her family also joined in on the fun today as we started our nickel coin collections.

Kaylee sorting and searching for nickles

She found some

March Service Project

This month the Cool Kids Club made cookies and took them to the 4-H office and to the Fire station.

 

 

 

 

February Service Project

In February we made Valentines to give to Meals on Wheels. We had to make 150 cards. Many of the cards were the same because we needed to get them done. They delivered them along with the meals. They were very happy that we made Valentines for them.

 

 

Some of the Valentines Kaylee and Ann made

Heart Cards

Cayla's Card

We sewed heart cards.  They were really fun to make. We used plastic, parchment paper, construction paper and fabric to create them.

This is the card Kaylee made for her Grandma Lee Ann.

January Service Project

Heart Sore

by Ida M. Pardue

Two youngsters stand

beside me, laughing

at the paper hearts,

Especially

the one with Cupid

shooting golden darts.

And while they're poking

fun at "such a

corny valentine,"

Here I stand,

their Grandma...

wishing it were mine.

 

Kaylee's Valentine
(She made 5 of these little heart men)

Ann's Valentine
(each of her Valentine's were also the same)

This month we made Valentines to send to people we know that maybe need a little extra love.

Cache County Fair 2012

August

On August 4, 2012 Becky, Colter, and Cayla came to my house and we got all the paper work put on all the projects so they were all ready to take to the fair.

                             Cayla in front of her's and Kaylee's pentagon patchwork balls.

                                      Cayla by the Christmas ornaments.

                    Cayla entered the 5 zoo animal pictures.

                                  Kaylee's Photo

                                  Cayla made the basket.

                                Colter's Photo got a red ribbon.

   His paper said selected to State but he got a blue ribbon on his weaving.

                      Colter and his pentagon ball.

                                                        Colter and his blue and white basket.

                                            Colter's Insect Collection is going to the State Fair.
                                                   He also got Reserve Grand Champion!

                                                          Colter's Christmas Ornaments.
                        Colter also entered his quarter collection which got a blue ribbon.
                     It was a lot of fun to go see all their things in the Cache County Fair!
                                                            Great Job Everyone!
                                                               WE LOVE 4-H

You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream

 We tried a recipe for homemade ice cream.  The recipe came from the Family Fun magazine.

Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup half and half
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup salt ( the bigger the granules, the better. Kosher or rock salt works best, but table salt is fine.)
• ice cubes (enough to fill each gallon-size bag about half full)
• 1 pint-size ziplock bag
• 1 gallon-size ziplock bag

Instructions

1. Combine the sugar, half and half, and vanilla extract in the pint-size bag and seal it tightly.  (Hint : You may want to double bag in case the corners leak and you get salt flavored ice cream - yuck.)
2. Place the salt and ice in the gallon size bag, then place the sealed smaller bag inside as well. Seal the larger bag. Now shake the bags until the mixture hardens (about 5 minutes) Feel the small bag to determine when it's done.
3. Take the smaller bag out of the larger one, add mix-ins, and eat the ice cream right out of the bag.  Easy clean up too!  Serves 1.

Colter adding in some vanilla

Cayla

Kaylee

Colter, Cayla, and Kaylee shake their bags.  It was really cold on our hands.

The mix-ins we used were strawberries, chocolate chips, and crushed heath bars.  They got to choose which mix-in they wanted.  The ice cream was yummy.  It melted kind of fast though except LeeAnn's we think it was because she had her bag sitting on the ice while she ate the ice cream.

The kids thoughts about the ice cream
"Delicious, fast, tasty treat," by Colter
"I loved the ice cream, it was so delicious," by Kaylee
"I liked it," by Cayla

Our ice cream took longer than 5 minutes shaking the bags, and we ended up using hot pads and towels to keep our hands warm.  We sure had fun making it!