4-H Club Pre-Meeting Activities

Pre-Meeting activities provide an opportunity for youth to become engaged between the time they arrive at the meeting until the business meeting is called to order. A wide array of activities can be utilized and lead by youth or adult leaders.

Pre-Meeting Activities: The First Part of Your 4-H Club Meeting

Pre-Meeting Activity Ideas

  • Estimation Games
  • Brain Teasers
  • Friendly Competitions
  • Creative Creations
  • Physical Feats

  •  4-H Publication Ideas

    ·         Educational Presentation Titles:  Provide a variety of 4-H publications for youth to peruse. Challenge youth to create as many titles for educational presentations as time allows.  Direction could be to create titles of presentations they would like to hear or something they would like to learn. 

    ·        Fun Facts:  Encourage youth to dig through 4-H publications and find a fun fact to share with the group.  The fun fact can be something they already know or something new. 

    ·         Exhibit ideas:  Distribute 4-H publications to youth.  Challenge them to generate as many exhibit ideas as possible from a single publication. 

    ·         Citizenship and Community Service:  Give youth a pile of 4-H publications to search for community service ideas.  Ask them to create a list of citizenship ideas they could do individually or as a club.  If time allows ask them to create a plan for implementing the suggested service project. 

     
  •  Get Acquainted
  • Pre-Meeting Recreational Activity Guide:  Word & PDF versions (Booklet Format)

 M Langner 5/7/2008