4-H Curriculum

This manual is a must have if you are a part of or training a poultry judging team. Poultry judging is an excellent opportunity for youth to learn about live birds and the basis of grade and quality of poultry products. This manual was prepared as an aid in teaching beginners, as well as experienced individuals, to properly evaluate egg-producing hens, and to apply USDA standards in grading ready-to-cook poultry and eggs. See which contests are covered on the Table of Contents image. Learn More

Do you want to have fun and learn more about horses and horsemanship? Do you like horses, even though you may not own one? Would you like to be in a club with other people who are “horse crazy,” too? Well then this brochure was made for you!

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On Your Own and OK serves as an excellent tool to teach youth about safety when home alone. The goal of this curriculum is to educate parents and youth on the importance of family communication in providing a safe home environment. 

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Creative Corners includes ideas and designs of quilts with squares and rectangles, and is good for beginning quilters. Emphasis is on making very creative quilt projects using just squares and rectangles.

Quilt Quest is a comprehensive curriculum that teaches youth about quilts from design and construction to care, preservation and even about entrepreneurial opportunities. Quilt Quest project blocks are designed to supplement the Quilt Quest curriculum with specific quilt projects. These project blocks assume some level of sewing skill, and are not designed for those with no prior quilt making experience. The skills required for each Project Block correspond with the block numbers. Project Block 1 is the most basic and requires only basic beginning skills. Subsequent blocks require increasing levels of skill and mastery, ending with level 8. They do not offer step by step instructions with illustrations of each step.

If youth are interested in using the Quilt Quest project blocks but do not have sewing skills, they should be able to do so successfully with the help of volunteers who understand sewing techniques. We strongly suggest that anyone using Quilt Quest project blocks also have access to the Quilt Quest curriculum CD for reference. Project Blocks will be available on CD-ROM and will be released one at a time.

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Terrific Triangles includes a wide variety of designs using basic triangles — both half square and quarter square triangles, plus a couple using equilateral triangles. Quilt Quest is a comprehensive curriculum that teaches youth about quilts from design and construction to care, preservation and even about entrepreneurial opportunities.

We strongly suggest that anyone using Quilt Quest project blocks also have access to the Quilt Quest curriculum CD for reference. Project Blocks will be available on CD-ROM and will be released one at a time.

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Fantastic Fabrics will help 4-H'ers learn more details about fabrics and how to combine them into beautiful quilted items. Included is a section on various kinds of prints, as well as, information and patterns for a variety of ways fabrics are sold, such as jelly rolls, fat quarters, panels, and more.

Quilt Quest is a comprehensive curriculum that teaches youth about quilts from design and construction to care, preservation and even about entrepreneurial opportunities. Quilt Quest project blocks are designed to supplement the Quilt Quest curriculum with specific quilt projects. These project blocks assume some level of sewing skill, and are not designed for those with no prior quilt making experience.

The skills required for each Project Block correspond with the block numbers. Project Block 1 is the most basic and requires only basic beginning skills. Subsequent blocks require increasing levels of skill and mastery, ending with level 8. Step by step instructions with illustrations of each step are not included. If youth are interested in using the Quilt Quest project blocks but do not have sewing skills, they should be able to do so successfully with the help of volunteers who understand sewing techniques.

We strongly suggest that anyone using Quilt Quest project blocks also have access to the Quilt Quest curriculum CD for reference. 

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Perfect Paper Piecing includes ideas and designs for paper piecing using original, multiple small paper piecing patterns. Designs can be dropped into anything from a placement to a full sized quilt using all kinds of sizes and shapes.

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Elegant Embellishments provides youth an opportunity to be amazingly creative. This Quilt Quest block offers several ways to use embroidery and many other ways to embellish your quilts including trapunto, fabric folds, lace and other trim additions, and much more!

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Amazing Applique includes several projects, each using a different format for applique, plus a variety of shapes to applique. This cd includes ways to go about creating original applique designs with just a little artistic ability.

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