4-H Art Club "The Barnyardigans"

By: Juliana Willemsma

The 4-H Art club met on Oct 1 at our leaders' home in Leamington. We opened the meeting by saying our pledge. Then each member introduced himself/herself. Our executive is: president - Nic, secretary - Savannah, Press reporters - Juliana and Hanna, treasurer - Nic, photographer - Becca and decorating co-ordinator - Charlotte.

We discussed what we would be doing for the club. We will being decorating a float and entering it in the Kingsville Migration Festival Parade. It will be used to advertise 4-H in our community. Our theme will be "Migrating Barnyard Animals". For the rest of the meeting we discussed our float. Our next meeting will be on Oct 7th. We will decorate the float at this meeting.

On Oct 7th the 4-H Art Club met to decorate our float. We said our pledge. Then we decorated a hay wagon. At the back of the wagon we made a barn. On each side we have a banner that says Essex County 4-H. We placed hay bales around the sides. We stuffed a sheep and cow costume to place on the float.

We decided what barnyard character each member would be. Charlotte and Hanna will be scarecrows. Nic is a rabbit, Juliana is a horse and Savannah is going to dress up like a pig. This week we have to make our costumes. Each member will also have a pair of wings. We are inviting other 4-H members to join us on the float. Our next meeting is at the parade on Oct 15th at 10:30 am.