County Activity Day & Visually Impaired Workshop

On the morning of Saturday, May 12^th, the Person County 4-H Program held our annual County Activity Day, where 4-H’ers of all ages are given the opportunity to put their public speaking skills to work. Each youth, age 5-19, is eligible to make a presentation on a topic of their choosing within a wide range of possible categories. Each youth puts together their presentation using poster boards and a variety of props. The topics presented included Fire Safety, Dental Hygeine, Snakes, Fruit Dip, Mini Pizzas, Bagging a Gobbler, Making a Rag Blanket, etc. All of the youth that gave a presentation will go on to compete at the North Central District Activity Day, held on Wednesday, June 23rd at Person High School. At the very beginning of County Activity Day, 3 youth showed off their talent in the 4-H Entertains Talent Contest. We had three talented youth sing and dance and will also have the opportunity to go on to compete at the district.

At noon, the Person County 4-H County Council, along with the Person County Lions Club sponsored their Annual 4-H Visually Impaired Workshop. It was a wonderful event where 4 visually impaired guests came together with the 4-H’ers for a day of fun, food, and crafts. We started off the day with lunch and introductions of all of our guests, 4-H’ers, and volunteers.

Some of the various crafts that were done included putting together a sun mobile, decorating a tote bag and coin purse, and made a flipflop decoration. Each of the guests also had the opportunity to win a round of Bingo. At the end of the day, each guest took home a lot of goody bag, plenty of fun memories of the day, along with all of the crafts they had made.

Thanks to the Sam Davis, Social Worker for the Visually Impaired, the Person County Lions Club and all of the 4-H’ers and 4-H volunteers who make this wonderful event possible.