More kids should do 4H. Most people think of 4H just being an all animal activity . While a lot of  4H is  animals there is a lot more activities  involving 4H. Almost anything can be in 4h like crafts, archery, baking, and quilt making. More kids should join 4H because it teaches responsibility, it’s fun and it helps you be a better citizen. 

4H teaches responsibility. If you have an animal, you have to take care of it and train it. That is one way it teaches responsibility, but if you don’t do an animal project there are still ways it teaches you responsibility. Say you do some sort of craft. You have to plan and  get all the materials. You also have to turn it in on time. Even if you do archery, you have to train in order to do it correctly. Responsibility is a very important life skill to have because you need a job and to do a job you need responsibility to make sure you get it done.

More kids should join 4H because it is fun. You don’t only get to be at the fair, you also get to participate in it. By participating you can do the Coke booth which usually each club has a paper to sign up. The Coke booth is a small trailer type thing where there are coke machines, ice  and ice cream bars. What you do is sell them to people. This is fun because you can have your family or other 4H members with you. Doing your project is also fun no matter if it’s an animal that you get to show or a craft you spend hours on.

My last reason more kids should do 4H is it helps you be a better citizen.   By being in 4H there are many opportunities you have to be a better citizen like helping someone with their animals. Say you are walking into the show barn to go to your tack pen, and you see a kid trying to open the gate without letting their animal out, you can go up to them and ask if they need help. Another way 4H helps kids be a better citizen is because you can do volunteer work like helping clean up barns and the fair after it is over. The fair is a mess from people dropping trash, so the day after the fair families go and help pick it up. This helps kids be more kind and a better citizen to their community.  

There are many benefits while being involved with 4H. If you don’t think there is something in 4H that you would be interested in , you are probably wrong. 4H has many activities so there would more than likely be something in 4h that you would like. “If every kid in America were in 4H, we’d have about half the problems we’ve got.”- President Bill Clinton.