- Good morning and welcome to camp.

- I'm Lori.

- I'm Dan.

- And we're coming to you from Camp Fowler, located in Orefield, Pennsylvania.

- We have a lot of awesome activities scheduled for this week.

We'll be learning a lot of cool things from the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

- And then we're gonna check in the garden - back with farmer Erika to check out what's new.

- We'll also be doing some crafts with our friends from ArtsQuest.

Let's start the day with our friends, Jen and Isaac.

- Hey, everybody, welcome back to another great week at Camp Fowler.

I'm Isaac.

- I'm Jen.

- I'm Dan.

And today we have playing with us, our friends Connor, Kyle, we have Jess, we have Caleb and we have Liz.

Today we're going to be playing a game called Commonality.

So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to suggest a topic or some sort of thing like what's everyone's favorite dinosaur?

And then we are all going to talk to each other for, like, I'll give you about 30 seconds to talk to each other.

Figure out who has the same favorite dinosaur.

If you don't find somebody that has a favorite dinosaur, that's OK.

Just stand by yourself.

So, like, if no-one here likes a triceratops, I'm just gonna stand over here.

But if you find that both of you like brontosauruses, you're going to stand next to each other, OK?

Any questions, how that's concerned?

- No.

Sounds good.

- Makes sense.

- So first up, everyone's favorite ice cream flavor.

- Ooh!

- Mint for you?

- No.

- Mint Oreo!

I got a mint friend.

All right.

- Peanut butter.

- Oreo.

- I like Oreo.

- Just Oreo?

- Yeah.

- Here's Oreo.

- Mint Oreo?

- Mint Oreo?

- OK.

- If you like that.

- I do like that one.

- OK.

All right.

- Torpedo!

- Cookie dough over there.

- Oh!

Cookie dough.

I thought you said torpedo!

- There's always a cookie dough group!

OK, so what do we have?

We have cookie dough over here.

What we have over here?

- We have mint Oreo.

- Mint Oreo, OK, and we have peanut butter.

All right.

Cool.

OK.

Next stop.

Favorite movie genre.

- Comedy.

Comedy.

Comedy.

You gotta go.

Need a laugh.

You've got to laugh!

All right, so we got comedy right here.

- OK.

All right.

- So what do we have?

Comedy.

Horror movies.

Horror Movies... Animated kids movies.

Sci-fi and fantasy.

And then what's this?

- We got comedy right here.

- Comedy.

OK.

All right.

All right.

OK.

- Everybody's favorite type of music.

- Favorite type of music.

- We're going to go with progressive rock over here, - Aggressive rock?

- Progressive rock.

- As opposed to chill rock.

- Mumford and Sons, what are they considered?

Alternative?

Alternative.

- Progressive rock.

- Alternative?

- Jazz.

- All right, there's rock in it.

- Is everyone good?

- Yes.

- All right.

- So mine was jazz.

I'm by myself.

It's OK.

How about you guys?

- Alternative.

- Alternative.

OK.

Liz.

- '70s.

- '70s, OK.

All right.

- Pretty much rock, progressive rock.

- Favorite place to vacation.

- So it can be kind of like a region, kind of like if you like camping, if you like going to the beach.

- Kyle's with mountains.

We've got the mountain group.

- The mountains.

All right.

- Going to the mountains.

- OK.

All right.

So what's this group over here?

Are you guys separate?

What is yours?

- Islands?

Ooh, OK.

Caleb likes to vacation at his house.

OK.

What's this group again?

- The mountains.

- OK.

Awesome.

All right.

- Say one.

- Yeah, I'm mountains.

- Oh, you're with us.

- Yeah.

I'm with you.

I just forgot.

Favorite type of like activity, like sports or like climbing or something like that.

- Like an outdoor activity.

- Hiking?

Anybody like hiking?

Yeah.

- Kayaking?

- I'm going to go with Caleb with the swimming.

That's right.

- So this one.

This is our hiking group.

What was yours?

- Kayaking.

- We got swimming.

- Swimming.

- Kickball.

- Kickball?

Ooh!

All right.

OK.

All right.

Last one.

Favorite indoor activity.

- Video games!

- Yeah.

That's a good one.

- Does computer count?

- Yeah.

- Come on, Kyle.

- Think sitting in... Sitting in air conditioning.

- It's cheaper.

You're smarter.

- I'm just sitting in air conditioning.

- Sitting on an air conditioning?

- Yep, inside, with a fan with ice on my head.

- OK, that's a really good activity.

OK, Jess, what was your activity?

Dominoes?

OK.

This is our video game group.

- OK.

Just relaxing in the AC, with a fan on me.

- Sounds good.

- Right now.

- Mine's doing a puzzle.

- Puzzle?

OK.

- Dodgeball.

- Dodgeball?

- Inside?

- In and out?

- Yeah!

- OK!

- Dodgeball, and then... - I like to read.

- You like to read.

So Liz likes to read.

That's a good line.

You like that.

OK.

So how would this game be different if we didn't know each other?

What we learn will be a good idea if maybe we were having to be in a classroom together or having to be in a group together.

- Well, I know for me, like getting to know more about everybody's differences - is so awesome because I didn't know Kaleb was into swimming.

Like, I love swimming.

- I think this is also really a cool game to play, getting to know people, because I don't have to feel weird being the only one in my group because other people are on their own with the things that they like.

So it felt safe because everyone was just kind of saying their favorite.

But in this other, more active way.

So that was cool.

- So today's journal prompt is tell us one to two unique things about you.

You can use the examples that we gave like ice cream flavors, favorite places to go or you can make up something, hobbies that you have, anything that you want to tell us and then share it with a trusted adult or with a friend.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

And I hope you have a great day.

- See you tomorrow.

- Bye.

- That was great.

Let's go learn something new with our friends from the Cradle of Liberty Council from the Boy Scouts of America.

- Hi, kids.

I'm Nilesh and this is my friend Jason, and the two of us have been birding for a long time, and today we want to teach you how to identify to birds in your backyard and your neighborhood.

If you listen carefully, you will also hear the sounds of birds all around us.

And because they're singing all day long, which is a great way to identify them.

So, Jason, let's get started with the bird that you think is the most common in our backyard.

- So, OK, Nilesh.

I know you're excited to talk about the birds.

But before we do want you tell us about what's hanging around your neck.

- Oh, right.

So this is a pair of binoculars and no birder is complete without a pair of binoculars.

So if you get a chance to use one, learn how to use one.

Let's get back to the birds.

- The first bird that we're going to talk about is one of the most common ones.

And I've got my little friend right here, the American Robin.

Now, you can notice with the American Robin that it has this gray back, this dark head, this very orange belly that you're gonna see, and that yellow beak.

This is a bird you're gonna see all over the place in your neighborhood.

And in fact, it's great for looking at because these different marks that we see on the birds is a really good way to tell the birds apart.

So, Nilesh, what's some other birds that we're going to see around the neighborhood?

- Well, the one that you're likely to have seen already in the last week, if you were looking around, is a cardinal.

It's one of our most common birds.

One of the brightest birds with a black face, the black throat and a big chunky beat.

The female cardinal looks very much like the male cardinal, except it's less red.

It has the same crest, has the same beak.

And actually, one of the wonderful things about cardinals is the bird's song.

In fact, I usually hear one before I see it.

So there is another really, really attractive and colorful bird that's very common in our back yards, Jason.

- Yeah, I know what you're thinking about.

Our friend, the blue jay.

So it has that same crest that we kind of saw on the cardinals.

So you see a crest there, that very blue color.

But it's such a gorgeous bird.

You see all that blue.

You may not notice this necklace, this black necklace that it has around its neck.

So please take some time to enjoy it.

- We should talk about the sparrows in our area because there are two very common sparrows that people are likely to see.

- Yes, for sure.

So the sparrows can be really tough because there's lots of different ones and they can be really hard to tell apart.

One of them, and the most common one, is the house sparrow.

Now, the house sparrow is so common and you probably see it all the time and pay it no mind.

But if you look at it a little bit closely, you'll see it has this really nice gray head.

Has this white belly, black into the breast.

Really stark bird.

It looks really nice in breeding plumage.

So take some time to notice that house sparrow.

And then the other sparrow that you're really likely to see is called the chipping sparrow.

Now, the chipping sparrow is neat because it's one that's likely going to let you get pretty close.

And it's call is this high pitched, little chipping noise, which is where it gets its name.

It also has this really characteristic kind of rusty red head.

So definitely make sure you check that one out.

- Jason, we often talk about the birds one normally sees soaring in the sky, particularly pretty high up.

- We've been talking about a lot of birds you see on the ground and in low trees.

But don't forget to look up.

Birds fly, right?

The first one that we're likely to see, this is a really characteristic one, kind of a larger to medium sized dark bird that you'll actually see swimming through the air or like a rolling motion.

That's our crow, our American crow.

And in fact, at night they go back to a roost.

So you're likely to see a lot of them, at night, going back to their home where they're going to bed down.

Another one that we'll see, another dark bird and we might even see some.

Behind us in the sky is the turkey vulture that holds its wings in this V pattern lots of time.

And in fact, it rocks back and forth like this.

And then our last one, as you're looking up at that turkey vulture, you might see another bird that's a little more flattened out and flying around like this.

But look at its tail and you'll see it has this nice red tail.

That's our red tailed hawk, one of our most common hawks in the area.

So remember, kids, keep your eyes to the sky and keep that birding.

- That was fantastic.

Let's go see what our friends at Valley Youth House are up to.

- Hello again, campers, farmer Erika here at Camp Fowler.

So happy to be joining you today.

It's a hot day outside, but the plants are loving it.

If you look to my right here, I see this giant sunflower.

So if you think back to episodes in the beginning of our series, this was a tiny little guy.

If I look back in my notebook here, it was about a foot and a half tall.

That was on June 16th.

So from June 16th to now.

A little bit over a month.

Look how tall it is.

It's so... It's so tall, I can't even measure it with my tape measure.

It's over five feet tall.

So this sunflower is really happy in this weather.

Sunflowers are great for birds.

They're a great thing.

You can save the seeds if you cut off the top and you can row some for eating.

Speaking of eating, I'm hungry.

This garden has a lot of things to harvest.

Let's take a look here at our green bean bed.

So if you look back and think back, this was probably about this tall.

In one of the previous episodes, I had to trellis it up because it actually turned into a type of bean that liked to grow upwards.

So a viney bean.

So I'm going to do some harvesting for you.

So when you look inside here really, really closely, you have to really get your eyes going, be very investigatory.

That's a silly word.

You can find these long, big green beans.

So I'm going to go in here and I'm going to pick some of them.

So what you do is you gently snap them off one at a time.

I have my harvest basket here.

And the thing with these green beans is they kind of hide because you see the leaves are green.

So you have to look for a while and really get in there to make sure you can find them all.

These kind of beans are really good just to eat raw for a snack or to cook.

Sautee, mixed with some other veggies.

And one more thing before I'm done with my harvest here.

If you look really closely, these little purple flowers are the beginning of the bean.

So before these green beans started, little purple flowers came on the plant.

And they slowly grew, and these kind of plants really like all this heat, I think today it's about 90 degrees outside.

So the beans love it.

They're going to grow big and strong.

And I've been having to do a lot of watering, too, just because of the type of weather it is.

All right, campers.

Well, that's all for today.

I'm looking forward to see you again for another fun time in the garden.

- Thanks.

That was great.

Let's check in with our friends from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania.

- Hi, I'm Lynn with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, and this week we're going to be using our senses to explore nature.

I love being outside, but I have to say, sometimes I don't really pay attention to what's going on around me in the natural world, which is why sometimes I like to just stop.

Today, we are going to stop and listen.

To really helped me use my ears, I'm going to close my eyes.

I'll invite you to do that with me.

Let's see what we can hear that's going on around here.

And also, I'm going to keep track of the number of different things by holding up a finger.

Are you ready?

All right.

Close our eyes and listen.

Awesome.

What did you guys hear?

I'll tell you what I heard.

I heard wind moving through the trees back here in the woods and rocks or acorns or something falling off the trees.

So that's awesome, right?

I also heard some birds, you know, almost anywhere, even in the city, you can hear birds.

I can hear... Actually, I think two different kinds right now.

How do I know they're two different kinds?

Because they're making different sounds.

Did you know that each species of birds has characteristic songs that they sing?

There are people who can identify like almost any bird just by the noise they make.

I am not one of those people, but I do know a few bird songs.

I'm going to teach you a couple.

So here, you may know this bird.

This is a blue jay, right?

And blue jays... Well, they are kind of handy because they say their names.

They say, Jay, Jay, Jay, like that.

I have a cool player.

I'm going to play the blue jay song for you.

You hear that?

Did you hear them say it?

Jay, Jay, Jay.

There's a couple of them in there.

Awesome.

All right.

Let me show you another one.

Do you all know this bird?

A cardinal.

Now, cardinals have... Actually well, they have a lot of different sounds, but their characteristic sound consists of two.

A what?

And a cheer.

Now, they're not really saying what or cheer.

It just sounds like that to us.

So it's kind of like what cheer, what cheer.

But it could be.

What, what, what, cheer, cheer or even cheer, cheer, what, what, what.

I had one in my backyard.

That's what he used to say.

But let me put my player on so that you can hear... ..what the cardinal sounds like.

So this one is saying pretty much what, what, what, what.

Just the whats.

No cheers in that one, but those sounds that lets you know a cardinal.

Now, here is another bird.

Very common.

A house sparrow.

OK?

Even in the cities, you can find these.

And these are the birds that make that typical cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep kind of sound.

So let's play that one.

Do you hear it?

Cheep, cheep, cheep.

Right?

So the next time you're outside, you might want to just stop and listen.

I'll bet you can probably hear some birds making noise and maybe you'll even be able to tell which birds they are.

Now, we've been listening to some different sounds but, you know, you can use nature to make your own sounds.

So here's an activity.

You can make your own band by searching around outside and finding some materials that can be instruments for you.

Like, I don't know, couple of sticks like that.

Or what about taking a stick on a pine cone?

There's one or some rocks, right?

Or maybe you find an acorn cap.

Let's see if I can make a whistle out of this.

Little bit.

So you get the idea.

If you have some other members in your family, maybe you gather up a whole bunch of instruments and you can make your whole natures band.

All right.

That's it for today.

Join us tomorrow.

We'll use more of our senses to explore nature.

Bye.

- Let's go learn something new with our friends from the Minsi Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

- Hello and good morning.

I'm John with Minsi Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America and welcome to It's Camp.

On today's episode of It's Camp, we're gonna go over the essentials of knot tying, and I'm going to teach you one basic knot that we use in the scouting program, but before we get into the knot tying, it's very important, you know, the terminology and the basics of rope tying and knot tying as well.

So terminology wise, I have a piece of rope in my hand.

It's important, you know, that you have a standing end and a working end.

I'm right handed, so my right hand is gonna be doing most of the working as I tie a knot.

So that's always important to know.

Standing end, working end.

The next important piece you need to know is the difference between overhand and underhand, which is very important and key that when you're tying a knot, some knots will not work if you don't do the right method.

So simple.

This is overhand.

And this is underhand.

So my working end overhand and underhand and, as you tie the knot, you'll see the difference between the underhand and overhand knot.

The next part we're going to go over is, with terminology, you need to understand that this is a bite.

Whether or not it's going to end in a bite or if it's going to include a bite.

So any loop that is made is a bite.

If I tie an overhand knot like this, for example, it's an overhand knot with a bite up top.

OK?

Next is also known as a round turn or a hitch.

A rope that is coiled once or twice along itself.

You have a hitch.

OK.

Most knots do include hitches.

The last part you need to know is many knots have a story behind it or a hail to it.

So the first knot we are doing today is the square not.

The square knot is used for tying two ends of the rope together.

The story behind the square knot goes as this.

It's a simple saying.

Left, over right, and right over left.

As I tie that, left over right.

Pull and follow through.

Right over left.

Pull and follow through.

There's my square knot.

You should be able to pull both ends.

It will slip.

But that is a square knot.

And both ends are on either side of the bite.

OK?

That's one way to tie.

The other simple way to tie the square knot is, I made a bite.

Here's my working end.

I'm going through the bite underneath, around the bite and back through.

So there again, there's my square knot, two ends of the same rope tied together.

And it is completely cinched and ready to go.

There's your square knot.

Hope you had a good time.

That's all today on It's Camp.

And we'll see you next time.

Thank you.

- Let's jump over to the Banana Factory and check out some cool crafting with ArtsQuest.

- Hi, everyone.

My name is Elena and I work for the Banana Factory, which is part of ArtsQuest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Today, I'm going to show you how to make a sculpture using aluminum foil and maybe some masking tape.

We'll see what happens.

And aluminum foil... You probably have in your kitchen.

You may want to ask your parents if you're allowed to use this before you just go for it.

And I'm going to show you how to make a person in particular, because it's easy enough to crumple aluminum foil up into a ball.

But it can be hard to make it do exactly what you want.

And I may have grabbed a little bit too much.

That happens.

I'll use... I might use it to add onto my sculpture a little bit later, but I'm going to use scissors to cut into my aluminum foil.

This shouldn't hurt your scissors at all.

And what we're going to do now, rather than just like starting with crumpling, what you can do is decide, OK, if I want to make a person that means I have two legs, two arms and a head that all are going to kind of come off the body.

So I'm actually going to cut some lines into my aluminum foil to help me have these, like, separate pieces.

So say, on this end, I want my two legs.

So I'm going to kind of cut up into the middle so that I can make legs that are separated from each other, but still part of kind of this whole piece.

I don't want it to just be two legs.

I need two arms.

So I'm going to kind of cut up this way towards the middle so I can have room for arms.

And it's OK if it gets a little crumpled because that's going to be most of what we're doing today anyways, and we're going to do kind of the same thing.

It's like I want the head sticking up here, so I'm going to just cut the other side of the arms and I'm going to go down that way.

I'll turn it.

I'll keep going all the way around, cutting all of my lines.

This part, we're going to start crumpling and I'm going to start with all of my various limbs and stuff, and then I'm going to worry about the body in the middle with, like, the head, for instance, you can just kind of crumple it up and it's OK if you want to, like, rip it a little bit closer.

But you can crumple it in tight and we'll add some details later.

With my arms, I'm going to more like roll them because I want them to be kind of twistier and longer, but they'll still get crumpled because that's kind of the way tinfoil works.

If you want to, you can always kind of... If you think, oh, I'm kind of losing space, you can crush them in a little bit closer.

That's up to you.

With my legs, I'm going to do something similar to the arms.

I'm going to kind of fold them in like so, and I can kind of crush them in a little bit tighter if I want to.

You can try to leave them loose.

That's up to you.

I mean, the great thing about art is you can... It's all pretty free form.

Like, I can tell you to crush them in super tight and you can ignore me because I'm not in your living room with you today.

I'm doing the same thing with my second leg.

I'm kind of rolling it up and then crushing it in pretty tight.

And then I'm going to do the same thing with my arm, sort of rolling it up, sort of crushing it in together and, just through the process of, like, rolling everything together, I kind of crushed up my body a little bit, which is fine.

But now I can kind of fine tune things, like my head was like kind of flopping down over the side, which we don't want.

So I kind of lifted it up a little bit.

You can maneuver a little bit tinfoil, super easy to like rip and tear, which can be bad if you tear it on accident, but you can always use tape to reattach things.

But now this sculpture is great because unlike, you know, clay or something where you might let it dry, you can move it around however you want it to.

So you can kind of decide, do I want to make my sculpture be like running, dancing?

Do I want it to just be standing still?

That's up to you.

And so you can bend it where you want your joints to go.

And think about, like, feet and hands and stuff like that.

But now, like, my sculpture is pretty skinny, especially around the middle.

So I can take a moment to say, like maybe I want to add a little bit extra tinfoil around my aluminum foil sculpture's stomach or chest or whatever, just to give it a little bit extra body, a little bit extra support.

Everybody needs a strong core.

I'm going to add a little bit more foil to my head.

And again, when you're adding more, you can just kind of crumple it on there.

If you're really, like, throwing it places, it might fall off.

But for the most part, it should stay in place.

So this is my aluminum foil sculpture for the day.

This is a really quick, really easy project that you can take in a bunch of different directions.

Thank you guys so much for watching.

If you tune back in again tomorrow, I will show you have to make a friendship bracelet using string.

- What a great day at camp.

We hope you had fun with us today.

- Join us again tomorrow for more activities, learning and fun.

- Bye.