This year, the Lower Cape May Regional 4-H Club was very busy with a plethora of community service activities. We started in December with our Christmas child shoebox stuffing assembly line. The 4-Hers collected fun items for girls and boys ages 5 through 9 to place in shoeboxes and send to children in poverty-stricken countries around the world.
For the month of February, the club decided to do some animal service and help clean the facilities at Cape May County Animal Outreach. The cats were fun to play with and entertaining to watch. We washed walls and litter boxes and folded blankets and towels. Of course, the club members wanted to adopt them all!
We ended our year of community service with two visits to the Victoria Manor Assisted Living Community. Our first trip was to conduct a dried flower craft activity with some of the residents. Everyone found their creative side while designing beautiful pressed flower bookmarks and door hangers.
In May, we returned to Victoria Manor for a Critter Fest! We brought along many of our 4-H animals and some other animal friends from the Cape May Point Nature Center to introduce to the residents of the Manor. The day was so exciting and educational that we will be returning in the fall to continue our lessons on Cape May critters! People came out of the woodwork to enjoy the animals who behaved while being handled.
What an exciting year! The 4-H club at Lower Cape May Regional High School always enjoys what they do throughout the year, but this year was an exceptional year of service to our community.
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