Success Story4-H Woodworking



4-H Woodworking

Author: Mackenzie Pogue

Planning Unit: Muhlenberg County CES

Major Program: 4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology Core Curriculum

Plan of Work: Providing Positive Youth Development Experience

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

4-H woodworking projects are always in high demand in Muhlenberg County 4-H.  A sense of competence, confidence, responsibility, respect for materials and safety, hand-eye coordination, strength, and fine motor skills, these are all benefits of our established woodworking program.  Our program is volunteer led, additionally providing a positive youth-adult partnership.   Parents of youth work with our volunteer leader as well helping to teach safe woodworking practices.  Once a month fifteen youth faithful attend 4-H Woodworking Project meetings where they are taught a valued skill set varying from personal safety while working with tools, properly reading measuring devices, planning and constructing projects, cutting materials, and applying project specific finishes to name a few.  When monthly in-person meetings halted in March, our woodworking leader was quick to form an alternative plan to continue this experience. In total, sixty woodworking project kits were prepared for youth to “grab-and-go” from the extension office during the COVID-19 Pandemic.






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