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Don’t miss out on a fun night of basketball and fan experiences! The 4-H Night with the Pelicans game is scheduled for Friday, January 17, 2025. There will be a private pre-game party for 4-H members and Pelican fans at the Smoothie King Center from 4:00 PM-5:15 PM and Tip-Off at 7:00 PM!! Ticket prices vary. If you purchase tickets and want the chance to have an on court fan opportunity, please contact the office. Tickets can be purchased here https://pels.group/4HDeadline to purchase tickets is Friday, December 13, 2024.
For more information, please visit our website https://tinyurl.com/Acadia4HEvents
Join us for an SEC matchup as the LSU Tigers take on the Vanderbilt Commodores on November 23, 2024!The tailgate party will be held before the game at the 4-H Mini Farm on LSU Campus. Registration to attend the tailgate party is $5 and includes a meal and ice cream! The deadline to purchase tickets for the tailgate party is November 15th. Purchase tickets here https://fs8.formsite.com/laffa/oj9srzjojj/index. You can also purchase tickets to attend the game. This special offer is exclusively for 4-H and FFA members, providing an unforgettable experience of intense football action. Show your support and join the roaring crowd at Tiger Stadium. Tickets are only $25!
Our second Commodity Cookery Contest will be held on December 9, 2024. This will include the Sugar Cookery and the Seafood Cookery Contests.
Commodity Cookery Rules & Regulations (All Grades): Doors will open at 7:30am. for those who have school that day. Others may bring their dish at 8:30am. Dishes may be dropped off by a parent, and you do not have to be present to receive an award. Judging will begin at 9:00 AM. Once judging begins, no late dishes will be accepted. ALL participants must submit their recipe at the time of entry with category, division, name, grade and school club on the back of the recipe. Only one copy of the recipe (neatly handwritten or typed) is required. Each participant may ONLY ENTER ONE DISH IN EACH COMMODITY SUBCATEGORY. For example, you may enter a dish in Sugar Baked Items and one in Sugar Other Dessert, but NOT two in Sugar Other Dessert. Remember, dishes must be prepared at home. Each dish must be chilled on ice to 40° or lower (even cakes and cookies), plated in a disposable container and brought to the contest in an ice chest accompanied with ICE, or they will be disqualified. No place mats, serving utensils or flower arrangements, etc. will be accepted. NOTE: only 3-4 servings of the dish must be plated at the contest. For example, if the recipe states that it serves six, only three servings should be displayed but your recipe must state the entire serving size.
Sugar Cookery:Recipe must include at least one cup of sugar which includes raw, brown, powdered & granulated sugars only. Divisions: Baked items (bread, cakes, pies, cookies, etc.) and Other Dessert (candies, icebox pies, ice cream, etc. Homemade jams, jellies and preserves or raw eggs are NOT accepted entries).
Seafood Cookery:The dish must use at least one (1) cup of seafood.The seafood must be fresh, frozen, pasteurized or dried.Canned seafood is not acceptable.Surimi, an artificial crab made from fish, cannot be used.There can be no raw seafood in the final dish.Entries in categories 1 -5 may contain a small amount of a second seafood but not more than ½ of the amount of the primary seafood.For example, a recipe could contain one cup of crab as the primary seafood and ½ cup of shrimp as the secondary seafood. The Seafood Cookery offers five divisions: Shrimp, Crawfish. Oyster, Fish/Non-Traditional, Crab.
This is the first of two Cookery Contests that we will be offering this year! The Ground Beef, Rice and Bento contests will be held on Monday, November 11, 2024 at the 4-H office.
Commodity Cookery Rules & Regulations (All Grades): Doors will open at 7:30am. for those who have school that day. Others may bring their dish at 8:30am. Dishes may be dropped off by a parent, and you do not have to be present to receive an award. Judging will begin at 9:00 AM. Once judging begins, no late dishes will be accepted. ALL participants must submit their recipe at the time of entry with category, division, name, grade and school club on the back of the recipe. Only one copy of the recipe (neatly handwritten or typed) is required. Each participant may ONLY ENTER ONE DISH IN EACH COMMODITY SUBCATEGORY. For example, you can enter a dish in Rice Main Dish and one in Rice Dessert, but NOT two in Rice Dessert.
Remember, dishes must be prepared at home. Each dish must be chilled on ice to 40° or lower (even cakes and cookies), plated in a disposable container and brought to the contest in an ice chest accompanied with ICE, or they will be disqualified. No place mats, serving utensils or flower arrangements, etc will be accepted. NOTE: only 3-4 servings of the dish must be plated at the contest. For example, if the recipe states that it serves six, only three servings should be displayed but your recipe must state the entire serving size.
Ground Beef Cookery A min. of one pound of ground beef must be used. Divisions: Low-Calorie Main Dish (Provides less than 300 calories per serving. Calculation of calories must be stated on recipe.), Quick & Easy Main Dish (A dish that is ready to serve in less than one hour. The time for each step and for cooking and baking must be stated on recipe.), & One-Dish Meal (Provides a complete serving from at least three of the five food groups. Food groups in the dish should be on the recipe.)
Rice Cookery Each dish must contain at least 1 cup of cooked rice. Wild rice, rice cereal, rice flour, etc. must also contain cooked rice. Example: Traditional Rice Krispie treats do not meet the contest requirements. The contest will be divided into three categories: Rice Main Dish: contains significant amounts of rice and protein. Rice Side Dish: rice dressing would be considered a side dish. Rice Dessert: breads, cakes, pies, cookies, candies, icebox pies, ice cream, pudding, etc.
Healthy Boxed Lunch or “Bento” A bento lunch is a compact, balanced, and visually appealing meal packed in a box. Each competitor will create a lunch to be eaten at school by a 9- to 12-year-old student. The beverage will be water and should not be included. Your entry should be representative of “MyPlate” recommendations: www.myplate.gov. Each competitor will transport their Healthy Box or “Bento” lunch to the contest packed in a disposable, portable, lock-top, and leak proof container, chilled to 40° or lower and on ice.
The 4-H Fashion Board would like to invite you 5th-12th graders to come experience the Fashion & Beyond On Tour. Join us as we travel to Crowley, LA bringing fashion to your fingertips on February 17, 2025 10:00 am - 3:00 pm (Acadia Parish Educational Center 2402 North Parkerson Ave. Crowley, LA 70526).
You will get a closer look at all aspects of the fashion world, from newspaper runways, color wheels, upcycling, fibers, to basic sewing fundamentals. You will engage in multiple sessions of activities planned by the fabulous fashion board. Items to bring: sack lunch, standard size pillowcase, 2 crew socks of different pattern or color. The cost is $35 per person.Limited registration spots available! No Sewing skills needed! Contact our 4-H agents for more details and to be added to the event registration in 4HOnline.
We are once again offering horse clinics this year for FREE! This year Acadia parish will be offering horse clinics every month! We will again team up with master horsemen throughout the region. Clinics will be held at the Acadia Parish Rice Arena on November 25th from 6-8 PM. In order to attended youth must be an approved 4-H member AND bring your own horse. For more information or questions, please call Emma Zaunbrecher Tyler at 337-366-2109.
This club is open to all 7th-12th grade 4-H members. Junior Leaders have fun helping younger 4-H’ers with their project work and assisting in their communities. This club participates in numerous activities where members meet and make friends with other teenagers throughout the parish and state. They also attend an educational awards trip each summer as a reward for their participation throughout the year. Meetings are scheduled on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30 PM at the Acadia Parish Extension Office. This month’s meeting is on November 12th. Cost to join is $15 (non-refundable). The deadline to join is November 12th. Visit our website on more information on how to join.
Join us for our first ever Spa Workshop! Get ready for a fun and educational day at our spa workshop! You’ll create delightful homemade spa products while exploring the science behind them. This workshop is open to 4-H members in grades 6th-8th. The workshop will be held on December 16th at the 4-H office (157 Cherokee Drive Crowley, LA 70526) from 10AM-2PM. Cost is $25 per person. Registration will take place via 4HOnline. Registration opens on November 18th. Spots are limited so be sure to secure your spot!
Join in on this service project and contest in one! The Life Book contest is to design a cover sheet for a Life Book. Only the cover sheet will be judged for the contest. The actual Life Book will be donated to youth in foster care in Acadia Parish, for them to keep a record of their life using photos, artwork and mementos collected along the way. These Life Book journals allow youth in foster care to document their history, celebrate accomplishments and let their talents shine!
This contest is open to all 4-H members! The contest is to design a creative cover and assemble a Life Book for a foster care youth. Cover entries should be one page, single-sided. Multiple entries will be accepted. No computer generate themes accepted. Cover designs will be judged in two divisions: 4th-6th graders and 7th-12th graders. Fist place winners in each division will receive a $50 prize and second place winners will receive a $25 prize! Entries are due to the 4-H Office by December 6, 2024.
Materials needed:
-1 1/2-inch binder (with clear pocket on front cover)
-24 clear heavyweight sheet protectors
-Life Book template pages, printed single-sided (available from the 4-H Office or via email)
-card stock for the cover
-5-10 sheets of colored, heavy paper or construction paper in the back pocket
-1-inch spiral notebook in the front pocket.
To assemble the book:
-select a binder
-place 24 clear heavyweight sheet protectors in the binder
-insert printed life book template pages into the sheet protectors so that the pages appear two-sided. Continue until the entire template has been added
-design a creative cover sheet and insert in the clear pocket on the outside front cover of the binder
-place spiral notebook in the front pocket of the binder
-place extra colored paper in the back pocket of the binder
For the contest entry sheet and to print Life Book pages, visit our website. If you need the pages printed, please contact the office. https://tinyurl.com/Acadia4HEvents
Animals must be in the exhibitor’s possession and validated by the following dates below. All animals can be validated by the exhibitor or parent on their own premise. The responsibility of tagging and collecting DNA hair samples will be that of the exhibitor and/or parent. Exhibitors should request a validation kit from the extension office.Validation will consist of: Ear tagging animal. Collecting hair sample and/or DNA sample; hair sample should be placed in a properly identified validation envelope for each animal validated.Validation envelopes must be returned to local LSU AgCenter office with validation fee by specified deadline. Exhibiters must enter animal information into the 4-H Online system on or before deadline. The responsibility of entering animal info into 4-H online, ear tagging animals, and collecting DNA and/or hair samples will be that of the exhibitor and/or parent. Validation envelopes must be returned to the 4-H Office with the $7 fee by the deadline stated below. Animals validated must be in the exhibitor’s name or family name. Animals tagged for the 2024 LA State Fair may utilize the State Fair tag but must still pull hair to complete the LSU AgCenter State Show validations.
Validation and Possession Dates: Com.=Commercial
Com. Does, Market Goats, Com. Lambs, Market Lambs, Com. Heifers and Com. Dairy Heifers: November 11, 2024, by 4:30 P.M. Market Swine and Com. Gilts & Exhibition Poultry: December 2, 2024, by 4:30 P.M.
The National 4-H Week promotional contest is designed to encourage clubs to promote 4-H in their community through the design and creation of a promotional display. We are excited to announce the winners of this great competition. The 2024 winners are as follows: 5th Egan, 4th Evangeline, 3rd St. Francis, 2nd Lucky Clovers, 1st Mermentau. The winning club will be awarded with ice cream!
Last month’s mystery item was rice. We learned some interesting facts about rice and even got to process rice ourselves by removing the hulls, bran and germ. Our November lesson will continue to reinforce the importance of agriculture in Louisiana. This month’s mystery item is being harvested now. It can grow to over 100 feet tall and live to be more than 1,000 years old!
Shooting Sports Camp is held annually at Camp Grant Walker in Pollock, LA and is open to 4-H youth ages 9-13.
Participants can choose their discipline. There is a fee which covers: registration, lodging, meals, and t-shirt. ($130
per youth/per parent/per coach). Parents and coaches are welcome to attend but it is not mandatory. Youth--bring your own safety equipment, bow/firearm, and arrows/ammo. All firearms MUST be cased. Must provide your own transportation. Registration will be through 4-Honline through the “Events” tab. Deadline to register is November 18.
The annual LSU AgCenter Southwest Region Agricultural Career Day at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in Rayne, LA is on December 3, 2024. The Agricultural Career Day offers youth in grades 8-12 a unique opportunity to learn more about agricultural careers, research, and production. Youth will experience firsthand the basics behind agricultural production. A field tour will give an up-close look at rice production. In addition, participants will learn about potential agricultural related careers from university, research, and extension leaders. You do not have to be a 4-H member to attend. The deadline to sign up is November 26th. You can find the registration form on our website https://tinyurl.com/Acadia4HEvents
