Exploring 4-H Collections Project Requirements

You must be in the second grade during the 2025-2026 school year (as of Jan 1, 2026)
  1. You only need to attend Exploring 4-H meetings, not local club meetings.
  2. You do not have to keep records.

Exhibit Requirements

  1. As an Exploring 4-H member, you are to learn a new skill or task. You will be making your project to bring to the fair on Tuesday, July 14th between 4 and 7 p.m. Since you are to make this exhibit, we do not expect you to do a perfect job, but to do the best you can.
  2. Your exhibit will be placed in a special “Exploring 4-H” section in the 4-H Exhibit Hall at the fair. Ribbons will be given to everyone who exhibits a project.

 

What to Exhibit

  1. You should exhibit a 22” by 28” poster. The poster should be mounted on material that provides a stiff backing (preferably not plywood). It should also be displayed horizontally and titled “Collections.”
  2. On the poster display an 8 1/2” x 11” sheet of paper of a summary written by you about your collection and one or two photographs of some of the items in your collection.
  3. Be sure to put your name, project, and grade (2nd grade), on the official Putnam County 3” x 4” label. Labels will be available through the Extension office for free. The label is to be placed in the lower right corner of your poster.  

Suggestions

Your collection should be of one subject. Some examples of collections could be stamps, stickers, rocks, pencils, keys, coins, baseball cards, etc.

Reminder

Your poster is due Tuesday, July 14th   between 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. You need to bring your poster to the “Exploring 4-H” table in the 4-H Exhibit Hall of the York Automotive Group Community Building at the fairgrounds. After your project is entered, you will be rewarded for your hard work.  You will need to pick up your exhibit on Friday July 24th from 6 p.m. to 9p.m. or on Saturday, July 25th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.