Pumpkin Pretzels

Fun and Easy Pumpkin Pretzels (from a Stater Brothers advertisement)

• 1 bag mini pretzels
• 1 bag M&M's candy
• orange food coloring
• 1 bag white chocolate chips
• 1 tbsp. shortening (to thin out chocolate)

Put chocolate and shortening into a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high 1 minute at a time, stirring slowly between. Once melted, add food coloring and stir gently until smooth.
Dunk pretzels into chocolate, completely coating, and place on wax paper. Before chocolate hardens, take one green M&M and set it in the crook of the pretzel, on it's side. Let cool & enjoy!

Kaylee dips the pretzel in chocolate

Lincoln enjoys eating the M&M's that won't be used for the pumpkins

Kaylee's pumpkins

Ann's pumpkins

Kaylee adds scary faces

Kaylee's

Kaylee's

Kaylee's

Cayla and Court dipping pretzels

Our finished pretzels at the Ricks' home

Cayla enjoying the pretzels

Colter enjoying the pretzels

Matthew, Nathan, and Rachel dipping pretzels

The pretzels were fun to make and fun to eat!

Our finished pretzels at the Wilkins' home



Pumpkin Coin Toss Game

The Pumpkin Coin Toss Game is easy and fun to make and play. All you need is some bottle caps or lids, orange and black construction paper, scissors, double sided tape or glue. Cut orange circles out to fit the lids. Decorate them like pumpkins, glue them on the lids. Cut out smaller black circles to fit inside the lids and glue them in. Now you are ready to play. Roll your pumpkins, you get a point for each pumpkin side. No points for the black side. Pass them to the next player until every one has gone 5 times. Then add up all the points. The player with the most points wins!

 

Kaylee giving a silly face

Kaylee cutting out her pumpkin

Kaylee's finished pumpkin game

Grandma with her game

Colter working on his game

Colter's finished pumpkin game

Grandma's finished pumpkin game

Rachel and Nathan making their pumpkin game

Rachel's pumpkins are on the top row.
Nathan's pumpkins are on the bottom row.

October 10th Meeting

Today Rachel taught us a new song.
(sung to the tune of bingo)
I know a fruit that grows on trees and apple is it's name-o
a-p-p-l-e, a-p-p-l-e, a-p-p-l-e and apple is it's name-o

We made a pumpkin coin toss game out of milk lids. We also made pumpkin pretzels. And were given a genealogy assignment. Put in your binder a copy of your birth certificate, your blessing certificate, and your baptism certificate (if you have one). Think of important events or things that have happened in your life that are interesting and record them in a timeline. Your timeline will be even more interesting if you can find pictures to go along with the events in your life.

Color of the Seasons Poem

 

The Colors of Autumn
by Ann

Autumn is red
like a leaf changing colors from green
like a crisp, delicious apple waiting to be picked
like my oversized jacket keeping me warm on the cool nights

Autumn is yellow
like the rectangle hay bales neatly lined up in the fields
like the funny scarecrow decorating my neighbors yard
like the warm apple pie straight from the oven

Autumn is orange
like the big pumpkins in the patches at the farm
like the steaming sweet potato and chipotle soup in my bowl
like the fallen leaves on the ground dancing with the wind




Autumn is Colorful
by Kaylee

Autumn is Red
like crunchy colorful leaves dancing to the breeze, crisp apples
crunching in my mouth with sugar oh so sweet, and steamy tasty
 soup swirling in my bowl with veggies floating at the top.

Autumn is Orange
like glowing jack-o-lanterns at the doorsteps of Halloween fun,
tasty moist pumpkin pie in my tummy, and beautiful
leaves making a colorful show in the sky.

Autumn is Brown
like feasts with sweet juicy stuffed turkey, the dry
leaves making a cracking sound when I jump in, and the
frosty ground with icy barriers preventing growth of plants.

Autumn is Yellow
like lonely scarecrows wishing for friends to play and prance
 with during the long winter ahead, falling leaves
 that dance as gracefully as ballerinas twirling in the air, and different shaped,
 sized, colorful, textured gourds. 

 

Autumn Colors
By Rachel

Autumn is Orange
like the big round pumpkins in the pumpkin patch,
like the sweet tasting treat of candy corn,
like sweet potatoes with a little brown sugar and marshmallows.

Autumn is Yellow
like the school bus that Nathan takes to school,,
like pencils that we use for writing and drawing,
like yummy eggnog served at Thanksgiving.

Autumn is Red
like the leaves that change colors before falling to the ground,
like the crunchy delicious apples growing in the orchard,
like my ladybug costume that's red with black spots.

 

October 3rd Meeting

Today we organized our club. Colter is president, Kaylee is vice president, Rachel is song leader, and Cayla is secretary. We will rotate our jobs every month.

We worked on our "Colors of the Season" poems. Once they are finished they will be posted on the blog.

Save up five milk carton lids for the activity next week.

For photography we learned about the rule of thirds. You can read more about it at http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds/. Practice taking pictures of things that are in the poem you wrote using the rule of thirds. You can post your favorite picture along with your poem if you would like when you are finished.

We look forward to seeing all the creative things you have done!

Cache County Fair

The Cool Kids Club at the Cache County Fair

 

Colter by his picture pie 

 

Kaylee by her dot painting 

 

Cayla by her cookies (with Rachel)

 

Rachel by her robot

 

The kids did great at the Cache County Fair this year.  This was Rachel's first year in 4-H and she is a Clover Bud.  She got participation ribbons on all 4 of her projects.  Colter, Cayla, and Kaylee had their Photo Family Tree projects selected to go to the Utah State Fair in September.  Colter and Kaylee's paper quilling, along with a photo that Kaylee entered also went to the Utah State Fair this year.  They all did a fantastic job!! Congratulations!

June Service Project

Friday, June 28, 2013 our 4-H club did a service project at the beginning of the street in which  Grandma lives, 1330 North in Logan, Utah. The weeds had taken over in front of the sign. Our club pulled the weeds and cleaned up the area.  It was very hot out and we decided that it was way too hot to plant flowers. But it looks lots nicer with the weeds gone.

 We are finished!

We ate popsicles to cool off