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JULY

Roll Call: What good deed have you done for someone this month? Thought for the Month: Don’t major in minor things.

ACTIVITY

CANDY BAR QUIZ

1. A famous swashbuckling trio of old ______________________________

2. Indian burial grounds ______________________________

3. Galaxy ______________________________

4. Red planet ______________________________

5. Home of the movie stars ______________________________

6. Not laughing out loud ______________________________

7. Can’t hold on to anything ______________________________

8. A famous author ______________________________

9. Famous former baseball player ______________________________

10. Famous New York Street ______________________________

11. Twin letters ______________________________

12. Superman’s other identity ______________________________

13. A sweet sign of affection ______________________________

14. Favorite day for working people ______________________________

15. What bees make ______________________________

16. Nut happiness ______________________________

17. Pleasingly plump ______________________________

18. Two female pronouns ______________________________

19. A feline ______________________________

20. Single women look for him ______________________________

21. Round flotation devices ______________________________

22. Sun explosion ______________________________

23. Bite with crackling noise ______________________________

24. Dry cow ______________________________

25. Children of the cane ______________________________

Answers on the back side

JULY ANSWERS

CANDY BAR QUIZ

1. 3 Musketeers

2. Mounds

3. Milky Way

4. Mars

5. Hollywood

6. Snickers

7. Butterfingers

8. O’Henry

9. Baby Ruth

10. 5th Avenue

11. M & M’s

12. Clark

13. Candy Kisses

14. Payday

15. Bit-O-Honey

16. Almond Joy

17. Chunky

18. Hershey

19. Kit-Kat

20. Mr. Goodbar (Big Hunk)

21. Life savers

22. Star Burst

23. Crunch

24. Milk Duds

25. Sugar Babies

AUGUST

Roll Call: Tell a way that you used your time wisely this week. Thought for the Month: Look carefully how you walk. Live purposefully and worthily and accurate, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise, sensible, intelligent people making the very most of the time you have been given.

ACTIVITY

WORD SEARCH

(COOKING TERMS)

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m x c c n e r y u o o w r t i

c h k u u c f k b v s p h o m

b m r a a i q l e e r t y v i

o w t s b p v n o p m k i e r

b h g t y e n m m u o i l d e

i i q q e k a b y f r h j l v

w s u g a r u t s a o r y o a

q k q w e r t y c h o p l v w

m n b v c x k a s d f g h e o

r e m m i s d n u r s a n n r

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stove broil pot pan oven oil knead microwave simmer fry sauce whisk bake roast chop recipe flour sugar

Solution on the back side

AUGUST WORD SEARCH SOLUTION

SEPTEMBER

Roll Call: Name your favorite fall recipe. Thought for the Month: Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.

ACTIVITY

Every day is a challenge. How do you score at the end of the day? Check each item you

have done today.

It’s not easy ….

to apologize

to start over

to be unselfish

to take advice

to admit error

to face a sneer

to be charitable

to keep on trying

to be considerate

to avoid mistakes

to forgive and forget

think and act

keep out of the rut

make the best of little

subdue an unruly temper

to maintain a high standard

to shoulder a deserved blame

to recognize a silver lining.

Perfect score is 18 My score is

OCTOBER

Roll Call: Name your most memorable Halloween experience. Thought for the Month: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

ACTIVITY HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH

L N N L E I B M O Z O U M

N L U F M D G Y M M U M E

E I U L U M R L W O U P D

E U F K T V A M P I R E I

W U E F S D V Y Y N Z N U

O I F L O W E R E W R O M

L D T O C C Y A O O N T I

L A L C C I A I C G I S V

A B M C H L R Y T O K B E

H A U N T E D L O B P M N

L B R A I N S A B L M O N

A L U C A R D S E I U T S

R L S C R E A M R N P O O

Halloween Witch Zombie Werewolf Medium Goblin

Coffin Graveyard Candy Corn Tombstone Mummy

Haunted Costume Skull Vampire Blood

October Brains Scream Pumpkin Dracula

Answer key on back

OCTOBER ANSWERS

NOVEMBER Roll Call: What is your favorite dessert for your Thanksgiving feast? Thought for the Month: If your pie crust won’t stick together, make cobbler instead.

ACTIVITY

BABY ANIMAL GAME (Baby animals have different names than their parents. Draw a line to match these babies with

their parent)

kangaroo calf

bear bunny

butterfly tadpole or polliwog

bird kitten

hog piglet

skunk filly, colt, foal

reindeer infant

dog nestling

donkey fledgling

penguin caterpillar

gorilla poult

duck lamb

frog duckling

elephant kit

rabbit fawn

pig puppy

cat shoat

horse cub

sheep joey

turkey foal

Answers on back

NOVEMBER ANSWERS

BABY ANIMAL GAME

kangaroo: joey gorilla: infant

bear: cub duck: duckling

butterfly: caterpillar frog: tadpole or polliwog

bird: nestling elephant: calf

hog: shoat rabbit: bunny

skunk kit pig: piglet

reindeer: fawn cat: kitten

dog: puppy horse: filly, colt, foal

donkey: foal sheep: lamb

penguin: fledging turkey: poult

DECEMBER

Roll Call: Name your favorite Christmas ornament. Thought for the Month: May the joy of the season bring warmth to your heart.

ACTIVITY

CHRISTMAS SONG WORD SCRAMBLE (Unscramble these words, which are titles of Christmas songs)

1. o yhlo nitgh

2. pu no het uoesh pot ___________________________

3. tadees delseif

4. het samhctsir nogs

5. kcde eht llahs ___________________________________________

6. nlotyda

7. het ttilel mmrdure ybo

8. het lloyh dna eth viy

9. pu no het seuohpot

10. shmaricts eossh

11. eht rtfsi eoln

12. tihew samrishct

13. het mkunphic gons

14. lnteis ngiht

15. lgnije llebs

Answers on the back side

DECEMBER ANSWERS

CHRISTMAS SONG WORD SCRAMBLE

Answers

1. O Holy Night

2. Up On The House Top

3. Adeste Fideles

4. The Christmas Song

5. Deck The Halls

6. Toyland

7. The Little Drummer Boy

8. The Holly and the Ivy

9. Up On The Housetop

10. Christmas Shoes

11. The First Noel

12. White Christmas

13. The Chipmunk Song

14. Silent Night

15. Jingle Bells

JANUARY

Roll Call: What is the best memory of your present or past Homemaker Club experience? Thought for the Month: All that matters in life is what you do for others.

ACTIVITY

CHOCOLATE KISSES GAME Items needed: 2 packages of wrapped Chocolate Kisses 2 pair of gloves 2 bowls, exact size, to put candy in Recreation leader will appoint two people to serve as team captains. Each captain will select their team from the remaining members present. Teams will line up across from each other. Captains will be the first to start the game. The recreation leader will give the sign to begin the game and the captains will put on the gloves, open one wrapped candy, chew it up, swallow and open their mouth to show it is gone. Once the candy is gone; the captain will pass the gloves and bowl of candy to the next person. The gloves cannot be given to the next team member until all of the candy is gone. The next team member will do the same until all members have taken a turn. The team that finishes first is the winning team. The prize for the winning team is all the remaining Chocolate Kisses.

FEBRUARY

Roll Call: What is the funniest thing that happened to you on Valentine’s Day? Thought for the Month: Slow dancing in life isn’t the same as waltzing through it.

ACTIVITY

FIRST LADY QUIZ

1. She was the first widow of a seated president.

_____ Betty Ford _____ Jane Garfield

_____ Jacqueline Kennedy _____ Anna Harrison

2. After an assassination attempt on her husband’s life she hired an astrologer to advise on safe

times for her husband to travel or speak.

_____ Hilary Clinton _____ Mary Todd Lincoln

_____ Nancy Reagan _____ Ida McKinley

3. She admitted later to her daughter that she had hung laundry to dry in the East Room of the

White House.

_____ Abigail Adams _____ Rachel Jackson

_____ Julia Grant _____ Betty Ford

4. The first time she married the future president the ceremony was illegal because it was

performed in Spanish territory where Protestants could not legally marry.

_____ Edith Roosevelt _____ Lucretia Garfield

_____ Rachel Jackson _____ Mamie Eisenhower

5. She was the First Lady to be elected to either house of Congress.

_____ Betty Ford _____ Louisa Adams

_____ Hillary Clinton _____ Letitia Tyler

6. She was the first First Lady to play golf.

_____ Nancy Reagan _____ Laura Bush

_____ Sarah Polk _____ Edith Wilson

7. For thirteen years in a row she was voted the most admired woman in American.

_____ Jacqueline Kennedy _____ Rosalynn Carter

_____ Hillary Clinton _____ Eleanor Roosevelt

8. The future First Lady was the first female geology major at Stanford University - she met her

husband there.

_____ Francis Cleveland _____ Mamie Eisenhower

_____ Nancy Reagan _____ Lou Hoover

9. She was a “camera girl” for a newspaper when she interviewed her future husband--they

were married two years later.

_____ Mamie Eisenhower _____ Nancy Reagan

_____ Helen Taft _____ Jacqueline Kennedy

10. She presided over the first White House Thanksgiving dinner.

_____ Martha Washington _____ Mary Todd Lincoln

_____ Sarah Polk _____ Eliza Johnson

11. She was responsible for the first White House Christmas tree.

_____ Dolly Madison _____ Grace Coolidge

_____ Caroline Harrison _____ Angelica Van Buren

12. She brought the annual Easter Egg Roll to the White House lawn when Congress stopped

sponsoring it at the Capitol.

_____ Lucy Hayes _____ Nancy Reagan

_____ Lou Hoover _____ Louisa Adams

Answers:

1. Anna Harrison 2. Nancy Reagan

3. Abigail Adams 4. Rachel Jackson

5. Hilary Clinton 6. Edith Wilson

7. Eleanor Roosevelt 8. Lou Hoover

9. Jacqueline Kennedy 10. Sarah Polk

11. Caroline Harrison 12. Lucy Hayes

MARCH

Roll Call: What would be your “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow? Thought for the Month:

AN OLD IRISH BLESSING May the road rise up to meet you

May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm on your face And the rain fall soft upon your friends

And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Activity

U.S. FACTS (give each member a plain sheet of paper and ask them to number it from 1 to 20)

1. What was the first permanent English settlement in the U.S.? (Jamestown, VA) 2. What state is noted for gold, the first dinosaur fossil find, and the first UFO sighting caught on

film? (Montana) 3. What state launched the first submarine attack in the world? (South Carolina, during the Civil

War) 4. Which state had the first cattle, cattle farms/ranches? (Florida) 5. What state had the first oil boom? (Pennsylvania) 6. The first documented gold mine was located in what state? (North Carolina 1799) 7. The saying, “Sold down the river”, resulted from what business practice in what state?

(Slavery, Virginia) 8. What did Bacon’s Rebellion have to do with a hog product? (Nothing, plan to eliminate

Native Americans) 9. We have the Clean Water Act because a toxic river caught fire in which state? (Ohio) 10. What was the first state to have a major terrorist attack? (Oklahoma) 11. An earthquake split several counties from their neighbors in which state? (Kentucky) 12. Which state has the most horse farms? (New Jersey) 13. What state has a permanent memorial set up honoring the Kentuckians who came to their

aid during the War of 1812? (Michigan) 14. Which state has the largest land area where residents get their utilities from a foreign

country? (Maine) 15. How could a person legally buy bourbon during Prohibition? (Prescription) 16. Which state had the first professional baseball team? (Ohio) 17. In which state did a fort built of palmetto tree logs stop a British cannon attack? (South

Carolina) 18. What state is noted for being, “The Horse Capital of the World?” (Kentucky) 19. Which state has both a northern and eastern panhandle. (West Virginia) 20. Which two states have the most volcanoes? (Alaska-34, Oregon-21)

APRIL

Roll Call: What is your favorite summertime activity? Thought for the Month: A smile is a light in the window that shows that the heart is at home.

Activity TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF KENTUCKY

(Give each member a plain sheet of paper and have them number it from 1 to 15)

1. Who officially founded Louisville, Kentucky? (George Rogers Clark)

2. Which family was from Kentucky, the Hatfields or the McCoys? (McCoys)

3. Where in Kentucky is Loretta Lynn from? (Butcher Holler [in Johnson County])

4. When did Kentucky become a state? (1792)

5. Where is the state capital? (Frankfort)

6. Where was the state capital located before it was moved to Frankfort? (Lexington)

7. What is Kentucky’s most famous cave? (Mammoth Cave)

8. What is the motto of Kentucky? (United We Stand)

9. What is Kentucky’s state bird? (Cardinal)

10. What is Kentucky’s state flower? (Goldenrod)

11. What is Kentucky’s state tree? (Tulip poplar)

12. How many states border Kentucky (7)

13. “My Old Kentucky Home” is Kentucky’s state song. Who wrote it? (Stephen Foster)

14. Where is the annual Kentucky Derby held? (Churchill Downs)

15. What is the nickname of the state of Kentucky? (The Bluegrass State)

MAY

Roll Call: Name someone who you consider a hero. Thought of the Month: The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on the porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you have ever had.

ACTIVITY KENTUCKY QUIZ

MEMORIAL DAY CHALLENGE WORD SEARCH U N N P M D L R X N Z W H R

R L W B T Y V Y V Y V P B C

M G G W K K T E S R K E Y V

N A K R S N C R M I Z X E I

I Z Y A B R E E O V R U S L

O Q L K O W M F G L J K O I

P G Y F O O T T V Q A W Q Q

J R R L R Q C Y C U R V B R

Y I F I T Q A R I I M H D P

A M A X X A W M M P Y J U O

X L C F E V A R G A N J R E

W Y N W H H O N O R L I D U

W D H H H Z E D S F X V V V

V I E T N A M R X A I Y E F

Airforce Army Flowers

Grave Honor Iraq

May Memorial Valor

Vietnam

Answers on the back side

MAY ANSWERS

JUNE

Roll Call: Where would you like to go on vacation? Thought for the Month: Friendship is the Oak of Life; it grows through rain and drought. It stands against the storms of night, deflecting fear and doubt. It comforts us when illness comes, reassures when conflicts rage, and spreads its shading summer arms in deference to our age.

ACTIVITY STATES IN AMERICA

(Match object with state that it pertains to)

Longhorn cattle Arkansas

Cotton Fields South Dakota

Peanut farmers Texas

Gateway Arch Iowa or Nebraska

Oil wells Florida

Hot Springs Missouri

Statue of Liberty Georgia

Mt. Rushmore Wisconsin

The Great Pipeline New York

Pineapples and orchids Alaska

Tabernacle Choir Alabama or Mississippi

Fields of corn Texas or Oklahoma

Swampy Everglades Hawaii

Dairy products Utah

Answers on back.

June Answers

Longhorn cattle (Texas)

Mt. Rushmore (South Dakota)

Cotton fields (Alabama or Mississippi)

The Great Pipeline (Alaska)

Peanut farmers (Georgia)

Pineapples and orchids (Hawaii)

Gateway Arch (Missouri)

Tabernacle Choir (Utah)

Oil wells (Texas or Oklahoma)

Fields of corn (Iowa or Nebraska)

Hot Springs (Arkansas)

Swampy Everglades (Florida)

Statue of Liberty (New York)

Dairy products (Wisconsin)