4-H Newsletter for Sussex County, Delaware
Hollymount 4-H Club – Frankie Joella, Reporter It is hard to believe that our 2024-2025 4-H season has concluded; however, that did not stop us from having a fantastic meeting to end the year! For our June meeting, the Wild Clovers came to show us how to make bug boxes and teach us about the […]
Hollymount – Frankie Joella, Reporter The summer months are rapidly approaching, and that means it is our second to last meeting for this 4-H season! We officially began our May meeting with our pledges, secretary report, and treasurer’s report. Afterward, we discussed our old business. Sign-ups are open to be helpers at the State Fair, […]
Seaford Blue Jays – Jayda Riefler, Reporter The Seaford Blue Jays met at the Seaford Legion on April 9, 2025. Caydance our president led the meeting by starting us off saying the pledge of Allegiance and the 4-H Pledge. We talked about the Junior Leaders weekend where the people that attended learned self-defense strategies and […]
Sunset Branch – Daniel Wisniewski, Reporter (February Meeting) In February’s meeting, on the second, the Sunset Branch 4-H Club held a general meeting. New officers were announced. We had a guest speaker, Dr. Selba, a professor of anatomy at UMES. She put together a presentation for everyone and discussed the basics of bone structure and […]
Sunset Branch – Andrew Wisniewski, Reporter The Sunset Branch 4-H club met on January 13th, 2025 for the first meeting of the new year. Mrs. Dana put together an arts and crafts project involving watercolors and painter’s tape allowing members to be creative and create resistance paintings. The officer positions have opened up and older […]
Cypress Heart and Hands – Faith Absher, Reporter Do you know how to set a place setting? For our meeting on January 14, we learned how to do place settings for the Favorite Foods Contests. Our members enjoyed this activity and thought it was neat. We also heard from the nursing home residents we adopted […]
Lord Baltimore Helping Hands This month we had so much to do, we had 2 meetings! First, we got together to decorate a tree and wreath for Delaware Hospice’s Festival of Trees. That’s always fun! Then we made 6 Christmas ornaments for our Fair entry. Using old canning jar lids and rings from Miss […]
Cypress Heart & Hands – Faith Absher, Reporter Fall Fun with Cypress Heart & Hands 4-H Club! On Tuesday, October 8, we had our second meeting of the 4-H year. While the bigger kids had a club meeting, the Cloverbuds did a fun jack o ‘lantern project with dot markers. After the business meeting, both […]
Cypress Heart and Hands 4-H Club – Faith Absher, Reporter Welcome back, 4-H members! Tuesday, September 10th, was the first club meeting for Cypress Heart and Hands. Our members were excited to share their 4-H fun from the summer. These activities included the Delaware State Fair and camp. Many of our members submitted entries for […]
Hollymount – Frankie Joella, Reporter As our 2023-2024 4-H Hollymount season came to a close, we finished it in the best way possible: an ice cream social! Members brought different components of everything needed to have a great sundae. Even though our meetings are concluded for the season, that does not mean 4-H fun isn’t […]