Logan County 4-H Fall Festival introduces local children and parents to 4-H

 

[October 14, 2024] 

On Saturday evening, the Logan County 4-H Program hosted a 4-H Fall Festival at the Logan County Fairgrounds.

According to Logan County Extension 4-H Program Coordinator Sherri Bishop there was a relatively good group of guests who attended throughout the evening.

The event was intended to cater primarily to those who are not currently in 4-H with tables set up to introduce children of various ages and their parents to 4-H on the whole and activities of specific age groups in particular. There was a table addressing the Cloverbud program which is a pre-4-H group for children under the age of seven.

Popular activities included a homemade catapult created with popsicle sticks and a plastic spoon. Another game using a homemade launching device resembled a tabletop version of the Ladder Toss game.

There were also tables for older children that included representatives from some of the clubs. Heartland Community College was also on hand and helped demonstrate some of the more technical activities of 4-H including drones.

Heartland also had two mechanical animals, a calf and a pig that kids could interact with.

The highlight of the evening was the hay wagon ride all around the Logan County Fairgrounds. The wagon filled with kids and adults took literally every road in the fairgrounds as it left the exhibit barn area, drove all around the outside parameter of the property, circled around the livestock barns on the north end of the fairground, then came back toward the exhibit barns for a pass on the mid-way before circling around the exhibit buildings and coming to a stop where it had started.

Riding along was Hunter Hawk, the HCC mascot who was a popular guest not just on the wagon but throughout the evening’s activities.

Everyone was also treated to hotdogs cooked by Brad Luckhart of Nuthatch Hill BBQ and served by Jennifer Luckhart along with chips passed out by local 4-H members.

[Nila Smith]