Health Project

What is it All About?

The 4-H health project will help you explore health and wellness in your personal life as well as your home, club, community, country, and world. In this project, you will learn how to assemble a first aid kit and how to treat cuts, stings, bruises, and other injuries. You will also be able to learn about how to stay healthy and develop your own personal fitness plan.

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Grow in Your Project

Beginner

Design a family First Aid Kit
Identify how to treat cuts and scrapes
Recognize the signs of choking
Learn how to prevent sprains, strains, and bruises
Discover what causes nosebleeds
Learn about poisons and how to keep your family safe

Intermediate

Find out more about germs and how they affect the body
Learn about food that help you stay healthy
Learn about your personal strength, flexibility, and endurance
Learn how to add activity to your day

Advanced

Identify the components of fitness
Learn the importance of hydration
Learn how to choose foods for fuel
Discover new ways to add physical activity to your life
Create a personal health and wellness plan

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Resources for All Levels

First Aid in Action (08174)*

Take Your Project Further!

Create a recreation/activity plan for your club and lead the activities
Take a Red Cross or CPR class
Lead age-appropriate physical activity sessions at your local senior center
Explore careers in the health and wellness field
Keep a journal of your fitness, activities, and food intake
Take a tour of a fitness center or gym
Interview a personal trainer to learn more about health and health careers
Take a trip to the grocery store to analyze different types of healthy foods
Invite an EMT or other health professional to speak at your club meetings

Applying Project Skills to Life

Enhance Your Communication Skills

Give a demonstration about basic first aid
Lead your club in a fitness check
Create a skit for your club about what to do in an emergency situation

Get Involved in Citizenship and Service

Organize or volunteer at a Health Fair in your community
Create first aid kits to distribute throughout your community
Organize a community walk or run

Learn about Leadership

Arrange for someone to come and talk to your club about a Health issue
Suggest that your club add a Health Committee

Showing What You’ve Learned

Create first aid kits for your home and club
Develop a self-health plan
Make a poster on water hydration and exercise
Design a poster on dental care for babies and toddlers
Make a poster on the pros and cons of antibacterial soap
Give a demonstration on bicycle safety
Create a poster about how nutrients affect your body
Make a video of proper stretching exercises and techniques
Survey kids about germs, fitness and nutrition, then chart and graph the data
Make a calendar featuring healthful recipes for a gift
Create a portfolio or display about assembling a first-aid kit
Create a portfolio or display about treating cuts and scrapes, choking, sprains, strains and bruises, nosebleeds, getting rid of foreign objects, stings, bites, poisons, broken bones or burns
Create a display about preparing healthful snacks
Create a portfolio or display showing fitness activities
Develop a board game with interesting health facts

Adapted with permission from Wyoming State 4-H, Project Information Sheet, Health. Retrieved from: https://www.uwyo.edu/4-h/projects/healthy-living/health.html.

*Resources available at your local Extension office or shop4-H.org.

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