The week before our County Fair is when officials hold the 4-H contests. The kids participate in cooking, sewing, research, speaking, and judging contests to see what skills they have developed over the past year. Emma signed up to do several contests. Her first one was a Junior Cookie Baking contest. This is her, working hard in the kitchen.
The baking guidelines are very strict - from the correct way to crack an egg to how often the work space needs to be cleaned. It can be very stressful.
We practiced for a few days beforehand to make sure that she had her skills and recipe just right.
And this was her finished product - Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies!
The next day was her sewing skills contest. She had to sew an elastic casing on her own. This was not an easy task but she got it done! She was given the instructions and a time limit of one hour to complete it.
Afterwards she had to test her knowledge on cooking and sewing. She was given several questions to look over and think about and then hopefully put down the right answer.
On Friday Emma participated in the Junior Nutricious Breakfast contest. Unfortunately, her mother neglected to bring the camera so there are no pictures to show her finished product of a strawberry, pineapple, and banana smoothie. It was delicious! This contest week is jam packed and was a bit of a stressful for me - just wanting to make sure the my kids are successful and happy and doing things correctly. A couple of days later she and Sam submitted all of their projects to be judged on and those had to be done just right as well. 4-H is a great program and I am seriously proud of the skills that Emma and Samantha are learning!!
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