Join 4-H
Contact your county cooperative extension service for more information about joining the Kentucky 4-H program! Annual enrollment procedures vary from county to county.
At-Home Activities
Below are links to activity guides, other websites, and a variety of educational resources that can be used by parents or others if you are stuck at home! We encourage you to "Like" the Kentucky 4-H Facebook Page (Link) to stay up to date on what we are offering!
- Natural Resources
- UK Forestry YouTube Channel
- Additional Tree Characteristics
- Alternate and Opposite Leaf Arrangement
- Compound and Simple Leaves
- Leaf Characteristics
- Leaf Margins, Lobes, and Tips
- Measuring Tree Diameter
- Measuring Tree Height
- Measuring Tree Volume
- Tree ID
- Tree ID Overview
- Using a Dichotomous Key
- Welcome to Kentucky's Forest Video Clip
- Papermaking
- Adopt a Tree
- Rocks and Fossils
- 4-H Entomology Project
- Night Hike
- Edible Watershed Lesson
- Watershed Fact Sheet
- Edible Composting Activity
- Backyard Composting
- Project Learning Tree: Tree Cookie Activity
- Project Learning Tree: Resources
- Agriculture Videos
- Horticulture Projects
- 4-H Indoor Gardening Project: Making an Herb Garden Record Sheet (4BC-05RO)
- 4-H Vegetable Gardening Project (4BC-07PA)
- Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky (HO-116)
- Exhibiting and Judging Vegetables (4BC-08PO)
- Forcing Spring Flowering Bulbs (4BE-12PO)
- Gardening in Small Spaces (ID-248)
- Home Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky (ID-128)
- Making a Terrarium (4BE-15PO)
- Preparing Your Garden (NEP-219)
- Green Beans (NEP-220)
- Peppers (NEP-221)
- Herb Garden "Grab and Go"
- Paper Towel Seed Mat
- Garden Planting Chart
- Recommended Planting Dates
- Life Cycle of a Carrot
- Living Seed Necklace Steps
- Living Seed Necklace Lesson
- 4-H Garden Pals
- 4-H Horse Projects
- 4-H Family Consumer Science Projects
- 4-H Health
- General Activities
- Flyer for Ideas
- General Activities
- Newsletter Activities 1
- Newsletter Activities 2
- Pulaski County 4-H Passport
- Repurposed T-Shirt Dog Toy
- Side Walk Chalk: Obstacle Course
- Side Walk Chalk: How to Play Hopscotch
- Side Walk Chalk: Games
- Holiday Activities
- 4-H Learning Links & More (Washington State)
- 4-H At Home Learning (Iowa State)
- News Article: Boredom Busters for Kids
- Friendship Bracelets
- Gifts in Jars, Sugar Scrub for DIY Mother's Day Gifts (page 3)
- Fair Projects
- State Fair Corn Muffins
- State Fair Corn Muffins "How To" Video
- Entomology
- Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Woodworking: Birdhouse
- Woodworking: Measurements
- Woodworking: Foot Stool
- Woodworking Plans Notebook: Level 1
- Woodworking Plans Notebook: Level 2
- Woodworking Plans Notebook: Level 3
- Woodworking Plans Notebook: Level 4
- Woodworking Plans Notebook: Safety Tools and Project Plans
- Coffee Cake
- Communication and Expressive Arts
- 4-H Speeches
- 4-H Demonstrations
- Demonstration Example Video
- Just One Coloring Page
- Visual Arts Project Overview
- Photography Project Overview
- Drama Project Overview
- Music Project Overview
- Electronic Field Trip to the Kentucky Opera
- Just One Project Coloring Sheet
- American Sign Language 4-H Pledge Worksheet
- American Sign Language 4-H Pledge Video
- Leadership & Service Learning
- Challenge
- STEM Fan's Choice LEGO Challenge
- Scarecrow Challenge
- Kentucky 4-H Bake-A-Long Recipes
- Kentucky 4-H Virtual Experience Scripts
Youth
4-H is for kids of almost any age. If you’re 5-8 years old, you can be in Clover Kids. From 9 to19 years old, you can be in 4-H. 4-H has things everybody can do, in the city or the country or anywhere in between. 4-H Enrollment is conducted by the 4-H Office in each county.
Adults
4-H offers a variety of programs, activities and events designed specifically to support and enhance volunteer participation and involvement in kids’ lives. They can lead special projects, drive 4-H’ers to activities, make refreshments for meetings, and much more! In fact, your whole family can be part of a lot of 4-H activities!