By JULIE CARLE
BG Independent News
Some members of the Winning Edge 4-H Club like to show goats. Others chose to show pigs, cattle or sheep. And some even choose to take non-livestock 4-H projects, such as photography, models, cooking, or genealogy.
While their project choices are varied, there is one animal the members all have in common. It has floppy ears and a cotton tail, but they don’t show it at the fair. Instead, each member gets to be an Easter Bunny for their annual club fundraiser.
For the third year in a row, the club is hosting the “Egg My Yard” fundraiser.
They sell plastic Easter eggs that are filled with age-appropriate candy, stickers, activities and trinkets. In addition to selling the eggs, the members help fill the eggs, deliver them, and if requested, they hide the eggs in customers’ yards, said Club Adviser Amy Dauer. “Families can wake up Easter morning to a yard of filled Easter eggs.”
The cost is $20 for 25 eggs and $30 for 35 eggs. The eggs are delivered by club members usually the night before Easter, which this year is the evening of April 4. Other delivery dates are possible if egg hunts are planned on different days.
Dauer said orders can be requested by replying to the flyer post on her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/amy.y.dauer. The deadline to order is March 27.
The fundraiser was suggested by a creative, active club parent, Dauer said.
The idea was perfect on many levels: every member and family is involved in the entire process, so everyone has ownership in its success, said Winning Edge 4-H member Emma Reid, who is a first-year agribusiness student at Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute.
“This has been a fun activity for the club because everyone gets involved,” she said. “We come together as a club to make the fundraiser a real success.”
After March 27, the final day for orders, the club will meet on March 28 to prepare and fill the different egg sizes as a group activity.
Usually, each member prepares and delivers the eggs to at least three households, Reid said.
“These are the kinds of activities that teach us things like teamwork, work ethic and persistence,” Reid said. “I’ve learned so much through 4-H. From leadership skills to work ethic, my roots are in 4-H.”
Last year’s Easter egg sale raised enough that each of the club’s members received beautifully crafted pen decorations designed and produced by Bowers Metal Designs of Pemberville.
