Centennial Celebration Ideas
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- Host a parish celebration/birthday party/open house complete with cake, ice cream and birthday theme.
- Create 4-H bookmarks to distribute to schools and public libraries.
- All parish events should incorporate a centennial theme.
- Set goal to increase 4-H membership and/or volunteer pool in your parish by 100.
- Contact local businesses to incorporate store displays recognizing the centennial.
- Each club in the parish to pledge 100 hours of service learning.
- Each parish should have a 4-H Centennial proclamation signed by mayor/parish president, etc. (proclamation provided).
- Plant 100 trees throughout the parish.
- Have 4-H’ers document 100 things they can do to live healthier lifestyles.
- Create a scrapbook of your past and present 4-H programs; solicit items from everyone.
- Have each club select an “honorary 4-H family” in need to sponsor for holidays.
- Create a centennial coin collection and display it so that you have a coin to represent each year of the centennial.
- Hold a 4-H-themed coloring contest for future 4-H members.
- Hold a 4-H-themed poster contest for current 4-H members.
- Have birthday celebrations at local senior citizen homes and talk to seniors who were 4-H members and have 4-H’ers talk to them about 4-H today.
- Attend 4-H Day at the Capitol and allow 4-H’ers to talk to local legislators and other government officials about the impact 4-H has had in their lives.
- Bring 4-H’ers to local parish government and school board meetings and allow them to tell their own personal 4-H story.
- Have an arts and craft contest where 4-H’ers make something that represents 4-H in the past, present and future and display these at community events.
- Have a birthday celebration at any nursery school, pre-k, kindergarten class; play games and have clover face painting.
- Hold a parish-wide search and recognize the oldest living 4-H member in your parish.
- Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper and thank volunteers for 100 great years.
- Host a 4-H-themed cake decorating contest.
- Hold a parish 4-H talent show.
- Declare a “wear green day” throughout the parish.
- Have each club compile a list of 100 ways that 4-H has positively influenced their lives, a family member or someone they know.
- Do PSAs on local radio stations.
- Do a local television interview and talk about the 4-H centennial.
- Put centennial flyer in local newspapers.
- Develop parish goals for the next 100 years of 4-H.
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