Children's Activities

Grange Activities for Kids

Junior Grange

At the Junior Grange level, the children hold their own offices, and run their own meetings under the stewardship of adult leaders. In Junior Grange, children learn important life lessons such as teamwork skills, and they learn to work independently as well. They are eligible to participate in youth contests conducted by the Grange and attend summer camp. In addition, they get to engage in arts and crafts and go on various outings.

The age range for the Juniors are from 5 years of age up to 14 years of age. Children from 14 to 16 can stay active in the Junior Grange for the sake of the younger ones, but become Subordinate Grange members at 14. After age 14, former Junior Grangers that had attended camp regularly can apply to become Counselors at the Junior Camp.

Parents are also welcome to join the Subordinate Level of the Grange and your children from birth on up are always welcome at the meetings.

Currently this Grange does not have a Junior Grange, but if you have children and would like to start one up (and coordinate it with 4-H), we would appreciate your efforts. The Grange is a great place to give children the skills necessary to become leaders.

Coronet Bay Camp

Sammamish Valley area kids may attend camp in August at Camp Cornet Bay on Whidbey Island. They have a great weekend, and on Thursday night, they put on a performance on parents' night. It is always a pleasure to be there! If not members of Junior Grange, they become members of the Coronet Bay Junior Grange.

As noted in the 4-H section, we are currently sending 4-H children to camp

Grange Youth

A Junior Granger graduates to a fully-fledged Grange member at age 14. However, since a Junior Granger is around adults, he or she needs people of their own age with which to conduct Grange activities. Therefore, the Grange Youth group was created.

This group is available to connect Grangers around the state from age 14-21, to help develop Grange leadership for future decades. In addition, this is an intermediate stage between childhood and adulthood when subordinate (local) Granges not only acclimate these individuals to older members, but also to prepare these young adults in the various functions of local Granges so they will be prepared to run local Granges, if need by, by the time eligibility in this group should end. Given that local Granges have many functions—including but not limited to maintaining the hall, bringing in a steady income to fund Grange activities, preparing and adhering to a budget, engaging in political matters by preparing resolutions for state legislative matters as well as influencing local political matters, dispensing adequate charity, and running the Grange programs—this is a necessary component to training adolescents to not only maintaining our Grange functions, but giving them strong leadership skills as well.

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