Home Environment
Overview
Youth who like to make things will love the home environment project. Kentucky 4-H believes that all youth should have opportunities for positive youth development in our four guiding concepts: mastery, belonging, independence, and generosity. This project fosters mastery by learning to organize and maintain one's living space, decorate a room, draw a floor plan, complete an energy audit; purchase or restore furniture, re-purpose things that one already has; belonging by practicing good manners and learning to interact as a member of a family; independence by accepting responsibility for tasks within the home; and generosity by being mindful of the needs, feelings, property, and space of others. Contact your county extension office for more information (link).
Curriculum
Youth:
Volunteer:
- Manners for the Real World
- Home Environment Series
- Summary of Concepts included in curriculum
- Club Lesson Plans for 4-H Home Environment Series
- Unit 1: Texture as a Design Tool
- Unit 1: Personalize Your Room with Accessories doc
- Lesson plan: Make a no-sew pillow
- Unit 2: Let's Plan a Party
- Activity: Scenario cards
- Handout: Let's plan a party
- Unit 2: Saying Thank You
- Activity: Scenario cards
- Handout: Saying Thank You
- Unit 3: Mealtime Manners
- Handout: Mealtime Manners
- Unit 3: Learn to Set the Table
- Home Energy Detectives (link to presentation) (link to handout)
- Kentucky Cooperative Extension related publications
Events/Activities
- Fair Entries--See Home Environment
- Family and Consumer Sciences Day at the Kentucky State Fair
- Communications Day
- Kentucky 4-H Achievement
State Contact: Isaac Hilpp | isaac.hilpp@uky.edu | 859-218-0990