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 Arts Quest and from Valley Youth House.

>>So let's get started with our friends Jen, 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 week we've been talking about safety.

We know that there is emotional safety and there's physical safety.

All of our activities have focused on one or the other.

Today, we're going to play a game that focuses on both physical and emotional safety.

It's called blind retriever.

So the way that this works, Gabby has volunteered to be blindfolded and she will be our retriever.

Isaac and I are gonna work together to try to tell Gabby where to go to get the object that's hidden out there.

There's a twist.

I am going to be able to talk, but my back is going to be to Gabby and the object.

So I'm not going to know with my own eyes what to say.

Isaac will be able to see Gabby and the object, but he is not allowed to use his voice.

So he's going to have to find a way to communicate with me without saying anything so that I can say something to help Gabby take the steps she needs to to safely get the object and come back to us.

We ready to give it a try?

>>Yeah, I think so.

>>OK, so I think maybe, Gabby, if you stand, we'll get you set up first.

Maybe stand right here facing down there, Isaac's to place it somewhere out there.

You and I aren't going to know.

>>blindfold on.

>>You feeling safe?

>> Yeah.

>> Cool.

I'll stand right here.

And Isaac, if you want to go, put that somewhere.

I won't look.

>>I am listening for Jenn's voice?

>>Yes.

I will be talking to you.

>>All right.

Ready?

>>Ready.

OK.

See, you can't say anything.

Go forward.

Keep going cautiously.

Yeah.

Whoa, hold up.

Keep going with just the one side.

>>One side?

Just go straight.

Just go forward.

>>Big steps.

Little steps?

>>Medium sized steps keep going.

>>Four more, specifically, are you signaling?

Are you chewing bugs?

Bend down.

It should be near your feet.

There you go.

>>I got it!

>>OK, we're guiding you back.

>>Listen to my voice.

>>OK.

>>Turn to the left.

Turn to the left.

Stop.

Come here, come here, come here.

OK.

We need more specific directions.

Forward.

Forward march.

Charge, stop.

Spin around facing opposite direction.

Turned 25% to... Come here.

Are you here?

OK.

You can unblindfold.

>> That was a thrill.

>> The best game I've ever played.

>>Definitely very fun.

How are you feeling having been blindfolded with the directions?

Tell me what happened from your side.

>>Well, to be fair.

Being blindfolded is kind of scary, especially in rugged terrain.

>>True.

>>But then I think not hearing Isaac's voice threw me off a little bit.

But good job.

I mean, I heard you.

So that's good.

>>OK.

How do you think this ties into safety if either one of you can talk about this?

>>I mean, honestly, from the person's perspective where I knew exactly what was going on, but I didn't have the power of voice, I found that it was difficult because I knew exactly where everything was.

But it was going through somebody else to get to you.

So I felt like I had to definitely make sure doubly that Gabby was safe because I knew that you were the one that had the voice, but you didn't know where she was.

>>Yes.

So we were all working together to keep Gabby safe.

But there are so many different things that go into it.

It really took some intentional teamwork.

And I really felt better about the whole thing because you were asking questions.

So that made me feel like our activity was safe because I knew you weren't just running away out there and I had to get directions to you before you twist your ankle or something.

So we don't want that to happen.

>>So you don't have a buddy system?

>>Yeah, that's where we were, everybody.

So I think that is a really fun game, especially when we keep it safe.

And it sounds like our voice is a big way that we can keep ourself and our friends safe.

So we want you to remember that being safe has physical components, making sure shoes are tied and making sure you wear sunblock and drink lots of water.

There's also a big emotional piece to it.

And using your voice saying when you feel safe and when you don't feel safe is all really important.

So we hope that you learned a lot from us this week and that you have a great and a safe weekend.

We'll see you next week.

Bye.

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

Let's go learn something new.

Hi.

Welcome to camp.

My name is Stacy Wolf, and today I'm going to do a fun writing activity with you that's super easy that you can do at home with an adult.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna make sentence sticks.

So you want to make sure that you have craft sticks.

So these are gonna be bigger than your regular popsicle sticks.

They're a little shy of an inch.

And then you're gonna want some Elmer's glue and you're going to want to ask an adult to print off the sentences.

You can find those at PBS39.org.

Once you have your sentences, you're going to cut them into little strips.

We're going to go ahead and take our craft stick.

We're going to take one of our sentence strips.

We're going to put some glue on there.

And you're going to go ahead and glue that right on to your craft stick.

It looks like that.

Once you've glued all of your sentences onto your craft stick, you'll look for a jar.

I used a mason jar.

You could use any kind of a cup, a jar that you find an empty vegetable can and that you clean out works really well, too.

You're going to put all of your sticks into that jar.

And when you're ready to do a fun writing activity while you're home for the summer, you'll take a stick out of your jar and you'll have choices of words that you could choose to go into that sentence.

So my sentence says I want to blank and blank and my word choices are fly, read, smile and jump.

So you're going to want to read this to the adult that's with you.

If you're older, you can do this activity on your own so you read that sentence.

And then you're going to want to choose the words that you want to write in your sentence.

So I have a sheet of paper and a pen with me today.

You can use markers, if you have a notebook at home that you want to make as your writing notebook, you could use that as well.

So I'm going to choose my words and write my sentence and then I will read that to you.

So for my sentence, I chose I want to fly and jump.

I could also take that same sentence stick and I can change those words out to make it... I want to read and smile.

So then you can take your sentence stick, stick it in your jar if you want to do some additional sentence work, you can pull out another one and then you can go ahead and choose the words that you want to fit in your sentence and then write that sentence on your paper or in your journal.

So there are 28 sentence choices on this sheet that you can print off on the Web site.

So I want to thank you.

And I hope you enjoy the activity that I have presented to you today and that you keep up your writing skills while you're home for the summer.

See you guys soon.

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

Hi, folks.

Welcome back.

My name is Ranger Don Scout Reservation for Minci Trails Council.

Today is gonna be my last segment.

We're going to talk a little bit about geo caching and using Gps.

We now have some pretty cool looking GPS now a lot of people use.

There are different types that are also like the rhino.

Not sure if they actually make these anymore yet.

But nonetheless, what you need about this is if you have two of them, they're both walkie talkies and you can actually transfer from one location to another location using two different ones to give your positions.

There's ones that you use in a car.

There's also ones now that are actually in cars that are built in.

We also have ones that like when I'm doing other trainings, this can be hooked up to a laptop and actually showing location where you're at using bigger programs.

But more than likely you guys are all going to be using the cell phone.

And that we have mapping programs.

There's actually a really lot to learn about geo caching.

If you want to learn the whole thing, we're going to talk about some very basics.

So geo caching, what is geo caching?

It's going out, having a set of what we call coordinates, and you're going to go find the location.

In that location.

It could be any number of things.

It could be either a box that's in that, maybe in the woods it's hidden.

And in that box, you would open it up and you might find a card like so, a booklet where you would put your name and your address where you're coming from and kind of give you a little description.

Then that way the next person comes in and finds that box.

They can flip through and say, oh, well, I know this person or I've been there.

And it kind of gives you a history, who's been there.

Sometimes it's just this.

There are other times that there are objects in them.

So I usually put in one of our boxes.

We have one here at our scout camp and inside of the box I usually try to keep one of our scout coins in it.

And what you would do is you would bring an object yourself that you want to put in.

You open up the box.

You write what was in the box.

You'd take an object that you wanted to put in put that one in and you'd take something out and then you would transfer those things all over to different boxes.

There's a lot of programs out there.

You can go online and you can actually find different locations.

There's Web sites out there that would give them the better you get at it.

And the more you do it, you can go from a box about this big, which some are activity easy to find.

This particular one we have is relatively harder to find all the way down to being in a city where you could be getting a general location and you have to find it.

And it's as big as a thumbtack, and a thumb tack may have a little number on it.

You have to find that.

So by doing that, what we're going to do is you're gonna take your GPS.

The way most of you folks are going to do it is you plug in the number from the coordinates where it's at.

And you basically look at yourself on a map and you'll walk yourself to it.

When you get more and more complicated.

You can actually transfer that if you guys were in tune with my earlier ones.

There are ways of transferring those coordinates or that location onto a map.

It's a great fun thing to do.

If you guys get a chance, get on a Web site.

Most everybody has cell phones.

Try off some starting with some smaller GPS where you can actually use a phone and the better you get the more you're going to start using GPSes themselves.

All right.

That's it for today.

Thank you for joining us.

Have a good day.

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

Hi, my name's Elyse and I'm from Valley Youth House.

Welcome back and happy Friday.

Today is our last day together with our altered books.

But I encourage you to keep working at them throughout the year.

So today we're going to think about the care for self and others as art, as a spiritual practice.

And really what we're thinking about is messages coming through with our art.

So today we're going to do some blackout poetry.

You open your book to any page.

We're not going to prep the pages or anything like that.

The first step to blackout poetry is really just to start circling or outlining words that speak to you that might go together.

So, for instance, this one says 11 o'clock.

So I think I'm going to start with the story at 11 o'clock and then final talk.

And then you just kind of keep going through your page as you find words.

That's speak to you or speak to kind of the story that you think it's going to start telling.

And sensor's take some time.

I'm going to show you a finished page that I have here.

So as you see, I circled words.

And as I read through them, they start kind of sounding like a poem.

So once you have all your words circled, the next step is to start blacking out everything else.

You can use the color black or you can use whatever color you want.

But something dark enough to cover the words.

So you're going to start blacking all this out.

Even the title of the page or the page number, you can black out.

But make sure you don't black out the words that you circled.

This takes some time as well.

Don't worry about perfect edges, that's fine.

You can black out the whole page if you want.

Or you can just do where the words are, which is what I usually do.

All right.

And again, because this process takes a bit of time, I already finished one for you.

So once it is all locked out, it should look something like this, so you can be finished at this point.

But what I like to do is like finish my artwork with some decorations or maybe with a border.

What we can do is decorate with a border.

So I have markers today, but you don't have to use markers.

Create like a hashtag border.

But another cool thing you can do.

Is because the blackout area's so dark you can use paint markers or colored pencil trying to find my white one.

Here it is.

And you can actually like draw with in.

Your poem.

And you guys will see.

See, me draw a lot of like leafy greens, I just think they're pretty.

Like that they're organic-looking.

Or you can read your poem and determine how you want to decorate it based on what your poem is saying.

So these are two ways to kind of finalize your poem.

So you may be asking.

How is this a spiritual practice or what is the benefit of blackout poetry?

It's a way that you can rewrite your narrative.

But it's also a way that you're given something and you can change it, adjust it, adapt it to the way you want, to make it say what you want.

So it's a cool way to kind of get your voice across when making some art.

I hope you really enjoyed your techniques this week and I hope you continue making more art.

Thank you for joining me and have a great weekend.

Thanks.

That was so neat.

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

Hi, my name's Elena.

I work for the Banana Factory, which is part of Art's Quest in Bethlehem.

And today, I'm going to show you how to make an optical illusion.

For this one, I'm just going to use a normal piece of computer paper, some colored pencils and a collection of circular objects I have found around my classroom.

So these can be a kind of any shape or size that you can find that actually fit on your paper.

We're going to use the circular objects as a thing to trace.

You can always if you own a compass, you can use a compass for this part.

But I think everybody owns something circular at home.

So I figured I would use this.

I'm going to start with my largest circle, which is this bowl that I found and I'm going to just trace all the way around it with my pencil.

Once I've done that, I will take my second circle, which will be this masking tape, I'm going to try to center it inside my first circle as much as possible and then I'm going to trace around this as well.

All right.

You got two circles down.

Now I have a third circle of this cup.

I think I'll use the bottom of this cup just to keep my circle sort of consistent and decreasing size.

I'm going to again try as hard as I can to make this centered, hold it in place and then trace around the edge.

OK.

And I have one final circle.

This tiny little cup that I use and I'm going to once again trace this one around the edge.

All right.

So now I have sort of a target looking shape here with my concentric circles.

And what I will do for this project is pretty simple and a little bit repetitive.

So it might take you some time.

But what I'm going to do is draw sort of a curved almost scalp shape in each of the circles and we're going to alternate directions as we go.

So just to illustrate that, before I really get into it, I'll do my center circle.

I might actually now that I'm thinking about it, thinking aloud here, I'm going to trace one final circle that's going to just be this marker cap and that'll be my center, which I'm going to totally fill in.

OK.

So I'm going to fill in my center.

Just like I said, this will be solid.

And that's kind of like what you move in towards.

And then every ring around it is going to have these little crescent shapes going in opposite directions.

So my inside ring will go this way.

My next ring will go the opposite way.

And I'm just going to mark that now to remind myself as I get going, because it's pretty easy when you're working on optical illusions, you just kind of get into repetition and to suddenly find yourself doing the wrong thing.

So I've kind of marked out what all of my crescent shapes were lined up looking like, which direction they're going to go in.

And now I can start to kind of color them in.

So for this, I'm just going to do the same shape over and over again.

I'm leaving about the same width between the two crescents just blank.

You can see that as you go out it kind of starts to form one big kind of swooping shape, which it kind of adds to that feeling of it being something that's moving.

Here we are with my finished optical illusion.

It might look a little bit like a peppermint, but you also when you have those different directions of crescents going in, it kind of starts to wiggle into the center.

So that is it for my optical illusions.

Thank you for watching with me this week.

Have a good weekend.

Hi, I'm Craig and welcome to Camp Fire Friday.

Today, I'd like to play a fun song for you.

This is called Down by the Bay.

It's kind of a little nonsensical song, but I think you'll get a kick out of it.

I used to play this with my good and dear friend, Mr.

Dave Fry.

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