4-H Project Guide
Project Guide & Roadmap
The Wisconsin 4-H Project Guide helps 4-H members find their sparks — the interests that bring them joy, energy, and purpose.
This guide includes a new Sparks Roadmap that helps youth find projects that align with their interests!
Archery
4-H Shooting Sports is a national program involving 4-H youth and adult 4-H volunteers. The Wisconsin 4-H program uses the National 4-H Shooting Sports curriculum to teach shooting sports safety to more than 5,000 youth with over 400 adult volunteer instructors across the state. Adult instructors are required to successfully complete a twelve-hour certification workshop before they are approved to teach youth. Our educational focus is on life skills development, safety procedures and responsible use of firearms and archery equipment.
Beef
The 4-H Beef Project allows you to learn about breeds, selection, grooming, production, management, showmanship, marketing and careers through a breeding or market animal.
Cloverbuds
Youth in grades 5K-2 are unique, special, and wonderful. Activities in the Cloverbud Project are designed to meet their needs at an age-appropriate level while having fun with hands-on, engaging activities.
Dairy
The 4-H Dairy Project allows you to learn about breeds, selection, grooming, production, management, showmanship, marketing, and careers through a dairy animal.
Dog
The Dog project will help you explore what kind of dog fits into your family’s lifestyle and how to be an excellent trainer and caretaker of your dog. You will learn about dog breeds, dog ownership, and demonstrate dog care and management in feeding, handling, record-keeping, grooming and fitting.
Foods & Nutrition
If you enjoy cooking or just like good food, this project could be for you. You will have fun learning the basics of cooking and then advance to gourmet meals. This project focuses not only on food and cooking, but also nutrition facts to guide eating, meal preparation, and planning.
Goat
Do you want to be part of the country’s fastest-growing livestock and dairy industries? The 4-H Goat project can teach you about selection, management, health, marketing, and careers in the goat industry.
Horse
Love horses? Want to learn more? In this project, you will have the opportunity to take your love of horses to the next level—the 4-H level.
LEGO
Youth use LEGO® bricks to build simple and complex structures with creativity and imagination. Youth can build structures and landscapes using various bricks to practice engineering, design, and construction skills.
Leathercraft
In this project, you can learn the construction of small leather articles involving carving, stamping and lacing. You can start with simple articles, such as a coaster, and learn the skills to advance methods of decorating leather such as filigree and figure carving.
Poultry
Explore the poultry industry, including turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, guinea hens, pigeons or quail. Learn about species and breeds, eggs, feather features, health, feeding, handling, washing, managing a flock, ethics, showing and careers.
Rabbits
Whether you see rabbits as soft and cuddly pets or as a business opportunity, the Rabbit project is flexible for your interest. Through hands-on activities, learn about selection, care, breeding, and more.
Sheep
The sheep project introduces you to a wide variety of fun and challenging activities including identifying parts of a sheep, selecting a project lamb, preparing for lambing season, identification of lamb meat products and feeding and showing sheep.
Swine
The 4-H Swine project helps you learn about swine breeds, health care, production, management, showmanship, marketing and careers in the swine industry. Learn principles of animal science and gain life skills, like responsibility, by owning, caring for and keeping records on one or more head of livestock. Gain knowledge of sound breeding, feeding and management practices.
Woodworking
Youth enrolled in the Woodworking project will explore basic wood types and woodworking techniques. Topics include accurate measurements, the use of basic hand tools and power tools, and creating joints.
Erin Dahle
4-H Program Educator
Office: 920-388-7185 or Cell: 920-536-3085
erin.dahle@wisc.edu