Good morning and welcome to camp.

I'm Lori.

>> I'm Dan.

>> I'm Jessica.

- And we are coming to you from Camp Fowler, located in Orfield, Pennsylvania.

>> We have a lot of great activities planned for you this week.

>> We'll be exploring the forest with our friends, the Boy Scouts of America.

>> Plus, we'll be doing some awesome arts and crafts with our friends from Art's Quest.

And from Valley youth house.

>> Let's get started with our friends, Jan, Isaac and Gabby to learn more about being safe.

Hi.

Welcome back to Camp Fowler.

I'm Jenn.

>> I'm Gabby.

>> And I'm Isaac.

All right.

We've been talking about being safe all week.

We've been talking about emotional safety and physical safety.

And today, we have an activity that talks a lot about emotional safety.

The first thing that we're gonna do is draw a picture of ourselves.

So if you're following along at home, take some time, draw a nice portrait of yourself so that you have a picture that looks like you.

You can relate to your picture of you.

So I got my person here.

Isaac, you got some you there.

How do you feel about your picture Gabby?

>> I'm not the best artist.

I don't really like it.

>> What do you think about your picture?

>> It's OK.

My eyes are a little scary.

Yeah, I think it's an OK representation.

>> So we all have different feelings about our pictures.

And just like that, in a day we have the same kind of feelings about ourselves and about other people too.

And when we have those feelings, we have to decide what we do with that.

So we have our drawings here that we feel mixed ways about.

What I want us to do is focus on the negative feelings.

And every time that you think something negative about your picture or about you as represented by your picture, you're actually gonna tear up the picture, make sure to keep track of all the pieces because we're gonna need them in a minute.

When I look at this picture, I know that, like, I mainly like it.

But if I think about myself sometimes one of the things I think is I'm such a loser.

Makes me rip my picture.

>> Kind of feel lazy.

I could've done better with my drawing.

>> I feel like I could done better a lot, too.

So I'm going to join you in that one color.

When I look at my picture, I just think of I sometimes find it hard to be good friends with people.

>> Not a good friend.

So we have our pictures kind of ripped up.

We have all of our pieces, though.

How did it feel to do that?

Bad.

I don't know.

Because, like, it was a little older.

Like after a while, it got kind of easy to say stuff like.

It feels weird to like say it out loud and say it and then do something about it.

Almost like that combined action.

>> I feel like I've had some anger in my rips.

It's like thinking that way about myself was making me upset and I was lending it out on the piece paper.

>> Kind of like hurt to rip it apart, especially because there were things that I liked about my picture.

So this this is kind of what it feels like when I do this, when I go through the day to and I have that thought of I'm lazy or nobody likes me like a piece of me kind of shrinks away.

And I don't want to engage with my friends the same way and the same thing, too.

If I ever say these things to my friends, like you're lazy or I don't like your shoes or I don't want your shirt.

I'm kind of ripping them up like this, too.

So the good thing is we have a way to sort of kind of fix when we say something mean to ourselves and to other people, when we say I'm sorry, when we apologize.

It kind of starts to put the pieces back together.

So now we're gonna do the same thing in reverse.

So we're gonna say, I'm sorry or we're gonna give a compliment and we're gonna take a piece of tape and tape our pieces back together as much as we can in the order so that we make the same picture that we had before.

So I might say to myself, I like my smile and I'm going to take one piece back together.

>> I'm sorry for my picture because I don't think I'm lazy.

>> I don't have to be good at everything.

It's OK that I'm not good.

>> I'm sorry that I said those mean things about you.

>> I'm sorry that I used such harsh language about myself.

>> Jen, your clothes are just fine.

It's OK.

>> I'm sorry you said you weren't funny.

>> So we have our pictures taped back together.

So it's better than when it was in a bunch of pieces.

What do you guys notice about them, though?

Not the same.

Yeah, I know.

I had a hard time lining everything up the way that it was before.

Even though the picture is all back together, it's really not the same as before I ripped up the picture.

So when we think about the things that we say to ourselves and to our friends, we can think about our picture.

It feels better now because we said we're sorry.

And we said nice things to ourselves, but it doesn't take away some of those scars.

Kind of the broken trust maybe from having said those things in the first place.

So when we think about being safe with our words, we need to think about what we're saying to ourselves and what we're saying to our friends.

And we can think about how it's never really the same after we say something mean today.

We hope you followed along with us.

And we want you for the journal prompt to think about how can you tell that you're about to say something mean?

How can you tell?

Because we got a notice first.

Sometimes we just blurt things out and it does just as much damage.

So how do you know when you're about to say something mean?

And then also what can you do instead?

I know in other weeks we've talked a lot about taking deep breaths, using muscle relaxation or talking to a trusted adult.

Maybe those are some things that help you.

But think about it and write or draw about something that you can do instead of saying mean things.

So that way your picture can stay intact and you don't have to worry about it being taped together.

Thanks for being here today.

We will see you tomorrow Bye.

Some of our local teachers are going to be joining us this week.

Let's go learn something new.

Hi, I'm Tracy and I welcome you to camp today.

I hope you enjoy the activity that I have planned.

It's on adjectives.

And we're gonna use a really fun book that you might have read in the past.

It's called Go Away, Big Green Monster.

For this activity you will need baking soda.

You will need vinegar.

You will need food coloring, a quarter cup, measuring cup, a teaspoon and a plastic cup.

You will also need some decorations to decorate your cup to make a fun little monster.

And this is my Mr.

Monster with googly eyes.

You can put any type of eyes on it with whatever you want to use.

I use stickers.

Eyes.

I used a marker.

So I put out some different things that you could possibly choose within your house.

You don't have to go out and buy anything expensive.

I'm going to quickly read our story while we're reading our story today I want you to look through it differently than maybe you did in the past and look for adjectives, descriptive words, because afterwards we're going to make a monster.

And the adult in your house, I want you to talk to them about the descriptive words that you see what happens with the monster experiment.

So here's our story.

Go away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly.

Big Green Monster has two big yellow eyes.

A long bluish greenish nose.

A big red mouth with sharp white teeth.

You hear those adjectives.

It's a little different than maybe when you were younger, two little squiggly ears.

Scraggly purple hair and a big scary green face, but don't get scared.

You don't scare me.

So go away, scraggly purple hair.

Go away, two little squiggly ears Go away, long bluish greenish nose Go away, Big green face Go away, Big red mouth.

Go away, sharp white teeth.

Go away, two big yellow eyes.

Go away, Big green monster and don't come back until I say so.

If you want to reread that book with me I did record that, put it on my YouTube channel.

So for what we're doing now is you will need to find your monster that you created.

Find an adult in the house.

Put your monster down.

Find your food coloring.

You're going to need your baking soda.

You're also going to need your vinegar.

And measuring cup.

If you want, you can even get some snazzy goggles in your house.

If you don't have any and it's summertime you might have some sunglasses.

So I found some sunglasses today.

So that way, if anything splashes at me, I'm covered.

It won't get in my eyes.

Just like the book when we were reading the book today there's adjectives.

Green, scraggly.

You saw big.

When we do the experiment today I want you to think of adjectives that are happening during the experiment and tell the adult that's with you the adjectives that you see.

So first pick one of the food coloring choices.

I'm going to pick blue because we already talked about a green monster.

Put three or four drops.

I'm going to put four.

Next, you're going to have to take your spoon and your baking soda and take a nice big teaspoon.

And put that right on the top of your.

Food coloring.

Then you need your vinegar, any plain white vinegar and a measuring cup.

So try it.

Quarter cup.

That's one fourth.

Fill it up.

Now, before you do this, I told you you need to have an adult with you, and you're going to have to just tell them some describing words.

You can even tell them what you did to your monster.

So you're going to put this in.

What's happening to your monster?

I see bubbles losing out.

It was blue bubbles.

I have googly eyes.

I had colorful eyelashes.

I had a squiggly black mouth.

So those are describing words for my monster.

If you want to take this a step further, you could even write some sentences or a little story about your monster, just like the story, Go away, Big green monster.

You could change it to your monster or maybe even something fun that he might be doing in the summer time.

I hope you enjoyed my experiment today and you had a great time.

We'll see you next time.

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

>> Hi, folks.

Welcome back.

My name is Ranger Don Ranger Structure Scout Reservation.

Today, we're going to kind of wrap up the first three sections we did.

First section, we actually learn how to use a compass.

Then we learned how a topographical map works.

Then we learned how to orient a map.

Now we're going to put it all into play and actually teach you how to use this map out on a course.

So once we have learned... We have already learned to take our map and orient our map in the right location.

We're going to pick a random spot.

Let's just say we were in this area right here and say we want to go over to the other side of the lake and we're hiking.

How would we go about doing this?

Well, first thing we're going to do is we're going to take this map.

We know we don't have a boat, so we can not get across that way.

So that means we have to walk around.

So we would then take our compass.

So we know that where we're at and we're standing and looking at north in this direction.

We know we have a highway back here behind us.

So we would actually go back to the road and we would follow the roads out that we know they're going to bring us across.

Looking at this.

These are solid lines.

That means it's a paved road.

If you notice here, it becomes a dotted lines.

That dotted line means that it's actually a dirt road.

So what we do is we'd follow the dirt road out until we get to here, once we're at the end of this road.

Now we know that we want to get over to this location.

We could either go through here and that's a swamp.

We don't want to go through a swamp.

So we're going to have to continue up.

So at this point, we have red dotted lines.

That means it's a trail.

Difference between a paved road, a dirt road and a trail.

So we would follow this trail all the way up.

And once we get to a point up here that we know where we're past the swamp, then we could actually, this is a very small section of swamp.

We could probably get to it.

Once we stop here, we would take our compass and our map or again, reorient the map.

And we know we want to head in this direction.

Then we would take our compass spin around here.

Point the north to the direction that you wanted to be.

We want to go to here, which is at ten degrees.

Now what we do is we would turn around, we'd take our compass again, hold it like so we're going to spin our body around.

Until we get the Red Needle to go into the box, into the north.

I talked earlier that this is actually your bearing.

Bearing means it's a line of travel.

So a line of travel means that is the direction that we want to go.

So at that point, we could actually measure off of the map here.

If you look on a map, it gives you distance.

So you would know exactly.

And that's roughly we take the side of this to measure it out, measure where we want to go.

And that's how we know how far we have to travel.

And that would now get us to this point.

So that's it for today.

Hopefully you'll join me tomorrow where we're going to learn how to do geo caching and what that's all about.

Have a great day.

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

>> Hi, welcome back.

Day four of altered books.

I'm Elyse and I'm from Valley Youth House.

Today, we're going to be looking at our theme of Care Self and others and looking on how to give back to the community through our art.

So today we're going to use a packaging tape transfer technique to make some political art or a social statement or social justice art.

So today the first step is you will need packaging tape and then find a few images that you like that would speak to what you are trying to talk about in your art.

So I chose some images of people and then I also chose some words, but they are in the next step.

So you find your images and you take your packaging tape, cut it to the size of the image and then place the packaging tape on this on the image that you want to transfer.

So I want to transfer the image of this woman.

So she's the one that I put tape over.

All right.

If you find an image that's pretty big you can layer up your packaging tape, but you want to make sure that you overlap, it's just slightly, but definitely overlap it, OK?

Once you have the packaging tape on your image, you throw it in water.

You leave in the water for about maybe a few minutes.

In the meantime, you can decorate your altered book in however way you want to.

So you could use markers, paint.

You could stick the pages to prep them for the next step.

I think I'm going to leave my book just plain.

I'm interested to see what this is going to look like.

So this image has been sitting in water for a couple minutes now.

So the next step is to pull it out, flip it over so the packaging tape is now touching your table and you're going to start scrubbing the image.

Maybe you have to use your fingernail to get it started.

If your image is not scrubbing off.

You see how it's peeling off here.

If it's not doing that, just put it back in the water.

It's just not ready yet.

So this one's peeling really nicely.

This is a good trick for if you're not feeling confident in your drawing abilities or anything like that or you really want a photo in your artwork.

This is a cool way of adding photos or words.

All right.

So when you have it all peeled out, it's going to become translucent, but then you can add it to your book.

And once you add it to the book, you're gonna really be able to see the transition.

The words of my book are gonna come through on her face.

And then I have one more ready in here.

He's talking about words.

Sometimes stuff that's already typed up is nice.

Scrub it again if you need to use your fingernail to start the scrubbing.

Feel free to just be gentle with that.

Then once it started, it would peel off pretty quickly and easily.

Gets a little messy, but no big deal.

And weirdly enough, your tape's still pretty sticky, so it will stick to your pages.

And you can layer as much as you want.

And add as much as you want, but for today, I just wanted to make sure that you had the technique under your belt.

So here is the start of a piece that I will finish later.

Thanks for coming and I hope you learned something new today.

That was awesome.

Thank you.

Let's check in now with the Girl Scouts of eastern Pennsylvania.

Hi, friends.

My name's Tracy and I'm with the Girl Scouts of eastern Pennsylvania.

Today, we're gonna be making some healthy snacks, rice cake faces.

So I have these ingredients, you can use whatever you have in your kitchen.

OK, so I have some hummus.

I have some cream cheese.

We're gonna be making two different kinds today.

I also have some rice cakes, mini cucumbers, some cut up celery.

I also have little slices of carrots.

I have some parsley.

You could use any herb if you were interested in that flavor.

I also have cut up cherry tomatoes, some raisins and some mini marshmallows.

So I'm gonna start with my cream cheese and I'm going to spread that onto one of my rice cakes.

You could use all kinds of stuff for this.

So again, I'm using cream cheese.

But you could use peanut butter, sun butter, almond butter.

Anything that's a little bit sticky that's gonna let your other ingredients stick so that you can have a face.

OK.

So what should I do?

I'm gonna put.

Some celery for hair.

So I'm just gonna go decorate it.

And you can use whatever you have.

For herbs, something green might be nice.

I think I'm going to use parsley next, so then because we're already green, I'm gonna go with some cherry tomato eyes.

And then for some sweetness, I'm gonna add a raisin mouth.

All right.

And I guess this guy needs a nose, so I'm going to add a little carrot right there.

Let me show you.

Very nice.

OK.

And then for this one, I'm going to use my hummus.

So same thing, you're just gonna take it and spread a nice layer on there.

I'm using dill pickle hummus, which is especially delicious, but this will work with anything that you have.

Or like I said earlier, you could use any of your nut butters, cream cheese.

So for this guy, I'm going to use my parsley.

So I took this off of my parsley plant at my house.

But you could buy parsley as well.

You could buy any herb.

And I have a little bit of the stem left.

And I think that's funny looking.

So I'm going to add the stems to.

Let the stem stick out a little bit.

Come around the face.

Again, you're just going to stick it in and be artistic, but also use stuff that you want to eat.

OK, I got my stem coming up.

All right.

So he has some nice hair now.

I'm gonna use some marshmallow rice.

And I think for this one, I'm going to do a cucumber mouth because the cucumbers are pretty big.

And then I have a little carrot nose.

All right.

Look at this guy.

So cute.

OK.

So here are my finished rice cake faces and they're going to taste delicious and I'm gonna eat them as soon as we're done here.

So I hope that you make this.

And I hope that you have a really great day.

Thank you.

>> Thanks.

That was so neat.

Now let's jump over to the banana factory and check out some cool crafting with Art's Quest.

>> Today, I'm going to show you how to make an optical illusion.

And for this one, I'm going to use just a normal piece of computer paper and some colored pencils and maybe a normal pencil that I can erase if I make any mistakes.

I'm just going to make kind of almost like an asterisk or something in the middle.

Criss crossing a bunch of lines through my center point.

You can make as many lines or as few lines as you want for this part, that is entirely up to you.

They can be big, they can be little.

It depends on how much patience you have and how long you want to be coloring.

But I think this is enough of these lines for me.

Now I'm going to kind of make some wiggly-ish circles going all the way around my piece of paper.

I'm going to go for some concentric circles shapes.

This part doesn't matter too much.

So this is going to be the whole shape that I work with.

And now the rest of this, I'm just going to be coloring them in to try to make them look like they're all sort of sticking out from the paper and bulking out.

And the way I'm going to do this is using colored pencils.

For the most part I'm going to try to alternate every other kind of blobby Triangle Square piece I'm using, but I'm going to try to use kind of a blending or shading to make it look like they're bulging out.

So I'm going to start with this shape right here.

This one I'll do in black.

And when I say that, I want it to look like it's bulging out.

How I'm going to do this, is I'm going to shade in really dark along the edges.

And I'm going to go over this maybe a couple of times with my black colored pencil to make sure that it's stays super dark.

And I'll do this on both sides, building up as much color as possible.

So it kind of looks like it's a shadow, like it's curving.

And then as I get towards the middle, I'm going to lighten up a little bit.

And this will make it look like it's curving upwards.

If you have even a white colored pencil, you can color on top of your black to make it have a highlight, which can help it seem like it's really sticking up.

But I'm just want to use a black colored pencil for today and it'll be great.

So here we have my first shape and now I have to fill the rest in.

What I'm going to do for my next shape right here.

I'm actually going to try to make this one white.

And so because I know I want this whole triangle to look like it's bulging out rather than just leaving it completely white I'm going to kind of gently shade the edges just a little bit, not using too much color.

But this is going to make it look like this is still a white shape, but that it's bulging out a little bit as well.

So we have alternating colors and we'll also have alternating whether or not it looks like it's sticking out or like caving in.

And then my outside shape here again will be black.

We're just going to alternate as we go around.

All right.

So we have my kind of bulging up triangle is totally done, and now I'm going to move onto this next shape where I'm going to try to make it look like it's curving in or like it's concave.

And this is going to be basically the opposite where on this one I did my dark parts around the edges of the shape, on this one I'm going to put them in the middle and that'll make it look like it's a concave.

So I'm starting with my super dark shape in the middle and then I'm lightening it up as I go towards the edges.

I just realized that I probably should have gone with the white on the inside piece here.

But it's OK.

Mistakes happen.

I'm not too worried about it.

You guys don't have to worry about it.

If you make your own mistakes.

Here we are with my finished optical illusion.

You can see with the way I've done the shading where we have the darker edges and the lighter metal or vice versa.

It really makes it seem like it's coming out and kind of bulging out or going in, kind of carved underneath.

So this is a pretty easy thing once you get the hang of it.

It is pretty easy to mix up with color goes where?

But even if you do that, it can still look cool.

I like to think this is an example of it.

>> 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.