Cleaver Kids

The following four leaves are not requirements. They are skills and activities that prepare Cleaver Kids for 4-H and the world!

1. 1. 1. Cleaver Kids can be encouraged to communicate: listen, ask questions, and share their voice.
      2. Cleaver Kids can present at a club level in a variety of capacities depending on the individual and their comfort level. 
      3. Cleaver Kids can participate in Communications as part of their skill development, but their presentations are not to be scored, judged, or competitive.

1. 1. 1. There are no Cleaver Kids Record Books, however, Leaders can modify current Record Books as needed.
      2. Cleaver Kids can use the Cleaver’s Log resource as a base for sharing through drawing, basic words, and art.
      3. Get creative: drawing journal completed each meeting, a scrapbook session using magazines and other fun sources of images and colour, art projects that convey what the Cleavers have been working on, etc. 

1. 1. 1. Cleaver Kids can be encouraged to lend a Helping Hand. Review to observe and see where they can help others.
      2. Clubs can include Cleaver Kids in their community service activities if appropriate. Please note that Highway Clean up is not appropriate for Cleaver Kids.
      3. Cleaver Kids can also do their own stand-alone community service.

1. 1. Celebrating what a Cleaver Kid has learned, accomplished and achieved can be done all year long through debriefs, celebrations, and praise.
   2. Cleaver Kids can exhibit something at their club achievement day that reflects what they learned during their year in 4-H.
   3. This could be project work relating to a specific project (ex: a food item, craft item, a place they visited, or a game they learned).
   4. It could also be a poster or photo display of what was learned in the livestock project they explored during the 4-H year.
   5. Cleaver Kids do not win or lose on Achievement Day. If awards are given, everyone should receive one