The Happy Homeschool Mom: Holiday Craft 4 H Workshop 2018

Every year our county 4 H has a Holiday Craft Workshop. This year they did it a little different. They split up the children by age with the younger group (5-9) going from 9-11 in the morning and 10 and up going from 1-3 in the afternoon and each age group working on different crafts. With kids in both groups and teenagers helping and me going as an adult volunteer that meant it was an all day affair for us. But it went great. All of the children had a good time and they made some really cute crafts.

Lily and Emmie were in the morning and Nick and Alex were helping so I told Anthony and Christian to bring some things to do to kill time in the morning. But, for some of the time they helped sort the canned foods the teens collected last week-end so they could be delivered to the families and food bank they were going to.

The 5-9 year olds made 5 crafts. They did a painted cookie plate, a mug, a painted canvas, and a small and large globe ornament. They were given suggestions of things they could do, but how they wanted to design or decorate was completely up to them. I was amazed at all of the creativity!

After clean up we took a lunch break at McDonalds and were glad some friends were able to join us!

The afternoon group had 3 different projects. They did a wooden board, wooden "cookie style" ornaments, and decorated glass jars. They also were given suggestions but could do whatever they wanted and came up with some amazingly creative and beautiful crafts! Emmie and Lily had brought some things to do, but there were not as many kids as had signed up for the afternoon so Lily got to make some crafts with the leftover supplies and there were a few things leftover from the morning so Emmie did another painting.