Youth Participation
The Diggers and Weeders Garden Club encourages parents and teachers to get their youth involved in Garden Club related projects and activities. Once you have taken a look at what is offered, please use the contact form on this site to let us know what your youth is interested in.
Youth Activities
The Louisiana Garden Club Federation announced at a recent Summer Board meeting, held in Baton Rouge, that eleven-year-old, Kelsey Broussard gained regional and national recognition in the National Garden Club Federation with entries in the Sculpture Contest and Poetry Contest.
She was awarded first place in NGC's Youth Sculpture Contest, competing against other fifth graders in 6 states within the Deep South Region and she received a Certificate of Commendation from National.
When asked to describe her sculpture, Kelsey replied, "I created a sculpture of two flowers, using the small plastic fruit cup as the flower pot. The wine cork was used as the roots. The coated copper represents the stem of the flowers. Two of the bottom bottle caps were used as the leaves on the plants, while the others were the center of the two flowers. One of the flowers was made from the bottom of the can which I cut into petals and the second flower was made from the pop tops."
She also entered NGC's Poetry Contest, open to students in Kindergarten through ninth grade, placing 3rd at the National level within her selected category. Categories included traditional verse, acrostics, blank verse, cinquains, diamond poems, limerick or Haiku. Broussard, who will be a 6th grader at SJ Welsh Middle, won the honor by submitting an Acrostic poem: a writing in which the first letter of each line, when put together, spells out a word.
Her poem joined other winners in a printed poem booklet "Protecting Our Aquatic Friends - Anthology of Poetry by our Youth". Kelsey was honored at a luncheon, July 31, hosted by her sponsoring club, Diggers and Weeders Garden Club of Lake Charles.
She was awarded first place in NGC's Youth Sculpture Contest, competing against other fifth graders in 6 states within the Deep South Region and she received a Certificate of Commendation from National.
When asked to describe her sculpture, Kelsey replied, "I created a sculpture of two flowers, using the small plastic fruit cup as the flower pot. The wine cork was used as the roots. The coated copper represents the stem of the flowers. Two of the bottom bottle caps were used as the leaves on the plants, while the others were the center of the two flowers. One of the flowers was made from the bottom of the can which I cut into petals and the second flower was made from the pop tops."
She also entered NGC's Poetry Contest, open to students in Kindergarten through ninth grade, placing 3rd at the National level within her selected category. Categories included traditional verse, acrostics, blank verse, cinquains, diamond poems, limerick or Haiku. Broussard, who will be a 6th grader at SJ Welsh Middle, won the honor by submitting an Acrostic poem: a writing in which the first letter of each line, when put together, spells out a word.
Her poem joined other winners in a printed poem booklet "Protecting Our Aquatic Friends - Anthology of Poetry by our Youth". Kelsey was honored at a luncheon, July 31, hosted by her sponsoring club, Diggers and Weeders Garden Club of Lake Charles.