♪♪ -This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Additional funding was provided by Joan Ganz Cooney.

♪♪ -♪ "Camp TV" ♪ ♪ It's time for us to start ♪ ♪ From furry animal encounters ♪ ♪ To summer reading and the arts ♪ ♪ No matter what the weather ♪ ♪ We'll explore it all together ♪ ♪ It's a place for you and me ♪ ♪ It's "Camp TV" ♪ Hi, I'm Zach, and welcome to "Camp TV."

Today we'll be -- [ Static crackles ] Um.

Okay... What just happened?

-Why is everything black and white?

Huh.

[ Tapping ] Oh, strange.

Anyway, as I was saying, I'm Zach, your head counselor, and we have so much fun in store for you.

[ Static crackles ] [ Sighs ] What is going on?

[ Static crackles ] Today's activities will include -- [ Static crackles ] Okay, this is getting ridiculous.

-[ Giggling ] -Huh?

Oh.

-[ Blowing raspberries ] -Ah, got it.

Thanks for the tip.

So apparently, today is My Favorite Color Day on "Camp TV."

And according to that box of crayons, all of the colors are looking to make a grand entrance.

Something about not wanting to be taken for granted.

So shall we brighten their day and ours?

On the count of three, let's say, "Welcome all pigments, colors and tones."

Ready?

Welcome all pigments, colors and tones.

[ Static crackles ] Whoa!

Oh, wow.

You got a little overexcited there.

You might want to tone it down just a little.

[ Static crackles ] Perfect.

And welcome to you, too, Camp TVers.

Thank you for always brightening my day.

Have fun at your first activity.

Jump, dance, play.

It's time to get active.

Let's Move.

-Today, we're going to play a really fun game.

It's one of my favorites.

It's similar to Freeze Dance, but inspired by a very old fairy tale.

This fairy tale is thought to have been written in the year 1806.

But as you all know, many fairy tales were passed down through spoken word in many different cultures before they were written and drawn on paper.

So this fairy tale is attributed to the Brothers Grimm, two brothers who wrote many fairy tales that were mysterious and some of them, a little bit spooky.

This fairy tale is not very spooky.

It's called "The Elves and The Shoemaker."

The story goes that there was a shoemaker who worked very, very hard making all kinds of shoes, hammering them, stitching them, making sure they were ready and great to sell.

And that shoemaker was struggling and not able to make enough shoes to sell as quickly as the customers wanted to buy them.

So when the shoemaker fell asleep one night, something interesting happened in the shoemaker's shop.

Do you know what it was?

Well, into the shop came creeping, sneaking, some little elves and dancers.

The shoemaker was fast asleep and had no idea what was going on.

So, ready?

We're going to call this shoe position.

You hold the shoe in whatever shape you want.

Shoe position.

When the music stops, you stop in shoe position.

I wonder what kind of shoes those little elves made?

So once the elves came sneaking into the shop -- everybody sneak, sneak, sneak in.

Shoe position.

The elves began stitching, sewing, hammering out shoes.

And what kind of shoes do you want them to make?

The elves made shoes with very, very high heels.

These heels were so wobbly that when they put the shoes on, the elves wobbled a bit while they walked.

♪♪ Whoa!

♪♪ Freeze, shoe position.

The little elves stitched, sewed, and hammered.

They created another pair of shoes.

What do you want it to be?

Okay.

The little elves used a bit too much oil on these shoes as they were shining them, and these shoes were so slippery.

What will happen when the elves try these shoes on?

♪♪ Freeze!

Shoe position!

The little elves stitched, sewed, and hammered, and they made yet another pair of shoes.

What kind of shoes should they make?

Okay, well, they made some shoes that were great for tap dancing.

These shoes had really firm bottoms, really hard bottoms, so that when they moved their feet, the elves made a tapping sound.

[ Tapping ] ♪♪ Freeze!

Shoe position.

Last pair.

The little elves stitched, they sewed, they hammered.

And what kind of shoes did they make?

Oh, okay.

Well, that sounds really fun.

What about super bouncy, boingy shoes?

Shoes with springs on the inside?

Dancers, let's see.

Try them on.

Here we go.

♪♪ The elves felt like they could touch the sky.

♪♪ Freeze!

And the elves snuck out of the shoemaker's shop, but they watched through a window.

When the shoemaker woke the next day, that shoemaker was so amazed.

Elves, great job helping the shoemaker.

High five, elves.

High five.

♪♪ -Welcome back.

Do you have a favorite color?

For me, sometimes it's green, sometimes red.

Other times, orange or blue.

But why pick just one?

With primary colors, you really don't have to.

Here, let me show you.

It's time for a... Zach Challenge!

I'm going to take three colors and turn them into six.

Impossible, you say?

Just watch.

Here, I have three bags.

Inside, some inexpensive hair gel.

I added a little bit of food coloring to each bag -- one with red, one with blue, and one with yellow.

I smush them up, and voilà, three pretty primary colors.

I'm also going to be careful not to stain anything with the food coloring.

Now watch what happens when I overlap these corners.

Not only do we have the red, blue, and yellow that we started with, we also have three new colors joining us -- green, orange and purple, also known as secondary colors.

And just like that, out of the blue.

And red.

And yellow.

Curiosity and wonder.

Let's discover together.

It's Science Wow!

-Hey, everybody.

I'm Dinosaur George, and I know some things about dinosaurs, because since I was little, that's what I studied.

In fact, I love them so much, I travel all over the country with a traveling dinosaur exhibit, and maybe one day, I'll get the chance to see you when you come in and meet all of my amazing friends.

[ Roaring ] Of all the dinosaurs I have, there is one that is called the king, and that's Tyrannosaurus rex.

The two questions I get from everybody is, why is it called the king of the dinosaurs?

And are its teeth are the size of a banana?

That's what I hear all the time.

Well, first, let me tell you why it's called the king -- because the name "Tyrannosaurus rex" means "tyrant lizard king."

Those are Latin words.

Tyranno saurus rex are three words -- "tyrant lizard king."

It will always be the king of the dinosaurs.

Even though there are some meat eaters that are larger than Tyrannosaurus rex, it's still going to be called the king.

And by the way, T. rex and Tyrannosaurus rex are the same animal.

"Tyrannosaurus rex" is its real name.

"T. rex" is its nickname.

[ Roaring ] So are its teeth the size of a banana like everybody says?

I see it in books.

I hear it from people.

Well, the answer is, they're even bigger than a banana.

You see, when you look at the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus rex when you see it in the skull, it doesn't look that long.

That's not the length of a banana.

Well, that's because you're not looking at the root.

The root is the long part that fits up in the jaw.

Our teeth have roots.

So does T. rex.

So if you could see through the bone, what you would see is way up inside is the root, so the tooth is actually 12 inches long.

I've got a project for you.

Look around the house, find a tape measure, and see if you can find something in your house that is 12 inches long.

And when you do, then you'll realize just how big that tooth is.

The other amazing thing about T. rex?

Their teeth are sort of like the teeth of a shark.

They fall out, a new tooth grows back over and over and over.

We find more T. rex teeth than T. rex skeletons.

Why?

Because it loses hundreds of teeth in its life.

It only loses its skeleton once, and that's not a good thing when that happens.

So when you see the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus rex, I want you to remember, yes, it is the size of a banana, but that's when you count the root.

[ Roars ] Stan.

Sue.

Y-Rex?

Z-Rex?

What are those names?

Well, do you know every T. rex gets its own name?

This one is Stan, and they all look different.

That's like you and I.

We're the same species, but we all look a little different.

Do you know the same thing happens with Tyrannosaurus rex?

Every skull looks very different.

They would have been able to recognize individuals.

Well, we give them names so that we can recognize who we're talking about.

This dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex is named Stan.

A bigger one than this was one named Sue.

You might have heard of Sue.

So when you hear us talk about the names of them, each specimen gets its own name or number so that scientists know who they are.

Looking at this dinosaur, it looks different than the one I just showed you, but they're both Tyrannosaurus rexes.

They all had different faces.

They all had the same equipment.

That's these giant teeth.

So if you see pictures of Tyrannosaurus rex and you want to know why it looks different than another T. rex, it's because they were all individuals, just like you and I.

[ Ground rumbles ] Not all meat eaters are created equally.

They're different sizes, but they're all related.

This is the skull of Eoraptor, a tiny, little meat eater, one of the first meat-eating dinosaurs.

Now, it had the sharp teeth, like all of its later ancestors, but it was tiny.

Well, you can see, compared to this dinosaur, they don't look anything alike, and yet they are related.

This is a dinosaur called Saurophaganax.

It lived millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex.

So this is sort of like Tyrannosaurus rex's great, great, great, great grandparent.

Now, Saurophaganax, just like little Eoraptor, would have been very dangerous for their time.

They were carnivores.

They were relatively fast -- this one much faster than this one.

But you can look by the shape and the size.

It doesn't look exactly like a T-rex because it's not a T-rex.

It's an earlier ancestor.

[ Roars ] So my young friends, if you want to be a paleontologist and study more about dinosaurs, here's my advice to you -- practice your reading, practice your math.

We use math in paleontology a lot, and if you become good at both of those and you want to join me, you can come on board with us and travel with this amazing world of dinosaurs.

[ Roaring ] -Oh, hi.

Looks like he caught me red-handed.

I'm sorry.

I just couldn't help but get a jump start.

That last Zach Challenge!

Really put me in the mood for one of my favorite books, "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni.

It's about two best friends, one blue and one yellow -- two of my favorite colors.

No reason to be green with envy.

I am happy to read it aloud and start from the very beginning.

"Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni.

♪♪ "This is little blue.

Here he is at home with papa and mama blue.

Little blue has many friends.

But his best friend, is little yellow, who lives across the street.

How they love to play at Hide-and-Seek and Ring-a-Ring-O'-Roses.

In school, they sit still in neat rows.

After school, they run and jump.

One day, mama blue went shopping.

'You stay at home,' she said to little blue.

But little blue went out to look for little yellow.

Alas!

The house across the street was empty.

He looked here and there and everywhere, until suddenly around a corner, there was little yellow!

Happily, they hugged each other and hugged each other until they were green.

Then they went to play in the park.

They ran through a tunnel.

They chased little orange.

They climbed a mountain.

When they were tired, they went home.

But papa and mama Blue said, 'You are not our little blue.

You are green.'

And papa and mama yellow said, 'You are not our little yellow.

You are green.'

Little blue and little yellow were very sad.

They cried big blue and yellow tears.

They cried and cried until they were all tears.

When they finally pulled themselves together, they said, 'Will they believe us now?'

Mama blue and papa blue were very happy to see their little blue.

They hugged and kissed him and they hugged little yellow, too.

But look, they became green!

Now they knew what had happened, and so they went across the street to bring the good news.

They all hugged each other with joy and the children played until suppertime."

The end.

Ready for some math that counts?

Count On!

-I'm Joy from Bedtime Math, and today, we're going to program our friends to walk like robots.

Have you ever seen a robot?

What is a robot anyway?

A robot is a programmable machine much like this computer, meaning that people write a set of instructions or a program that tells it what to do.

Robots only understand commands that are written step by step in a specific code.

A code is a series of words and symbols.

You may have heard the term "coding."

That's just another way of saying you're writing a program to tell your robot what to do.

Why do you think the program has to be written so carefully?

It's so every robot does exactly the same thing every time.

A robot in a car factory better build every car the same way.

You wouldn't want one that's missing a wheel.

[ Honks ] Let's write a program and email it to our friends and see how well they follow our commands.

Let's see, how about, "left foot, take one step.

Right foot, take one step.

Left foot, take one step.

Right foot, take one step.

Right arm, raise halfway.

Right arm, bend up.

Right arm, wave.

Left foot, raise.

Hop, hop, hop.

Left foot down.

Stop waving.

Right arm, straight out.

Right arm, down."

Let's send that to them and see how it works.

[ Dialing sounds ] -Hey, Cheyenne and John Carlos!

We have an email from Joy at Bedtime Math.

Let's see what it says.

She's written a code for you two to program me as a robot.

-We can't wait to make you walk like a robot.

-[ Both laugh ] [ Zapping sound ] -"Left foot, take one step.

Right foot, take one step.

Left foot, take one step.

Right foot, take one step.

Right arm, raise halfway.

Right arm, bend up.

Right arm, wave.

Left foot, raise.

Hop, hop, hop.

Left foot down.

Stop waving.

Right arm, straight out."

Say, "Right arm down."

-"Right arm down."

-Let's see how successfully we programmed our robot.

♪♪ Now you try it.

Learning how to write, program, and code is a great way to practice your math skills.

Have fun, bye!

-Daytime or nighttime, it's always time for story time.

-Hi, I'm Norah, and today, we're going to read a story about the rainforest.

Listen closely and read along with me.

I'll ask you questions as we go.

"What Lives in a Rain Forest?"

by Rachelle Kreisman.

Illustrations by Spencer Reeves.

Based on what we just heard, what is a rainforest?

Good job listening and reading closely.

Let's see if you can remember the three animals that live at the top of the tallest tree in the rainforest.

Let's learn about some more animals.

Can you remember one of the three big rainforest animals that live on the forest floor?

Good job.

Now it's your turn.

We just learned about all different kinds of animals that live in the rainforest.

Draw a picture of the animals that live in the different parts of the rainforest.

Include the animals in the tippy top of the trees, the tallest trees, the top of the shorter trees, the lower branches, and the rainforest floor.

See you next time.

Bye!

-Arts and crafts?

Yes, please!

Let's Get Artsy.

-Hi, I'm Joel Zavala with the Chicago Park District, and today, we're going to do some painting with mud.

Now, this is a super fun and easy activity that you can do both indoors and outdoors, but it can get a little messy.

But that's what makes it so much fun.

Now, mud is simply just dirt mixed with a little bit of water.

I got my dirt from my backyard.

You can get yours from your backyard.

You can go to your garden or your local park and get some.

It's literally everywhere.

When you're mixing it with water, make sure to just add a little bit at a time.

If it gets too thick, just add a little bit more water and if it gets too watery, then just add a little bit more soil.

Now, if you're painting with regular paint, you'd use a paintbrush just like this.

But when you're painting with mud, I think it's fun to use things that you find out in nature to paint with.

So I took a few minutes and I walked around my local park and I looked for things in nature that inspired me to paint with.

So first of all, I found this stick.

I wanted to see how it would paint.

Then I found this dry flower head that really reminded me of a paintbrush.

Next I found this -- what looks like a wheat stalk with some grains on it.

And then I have this flower head from grass that has a lot of rough texture on it.

And lastly, I got another stick that I whittled to a fine edge to use for details.

So after I gathered my materials, I looked around for a few more sticks and I tied them to the stick to make a paintbrush handle.

I just use a pipe cleaner.

You can use tape or you can use a rubber band.

Anything that you have at home will work.

So now we have our paint, we have our tools.

And for a canvas, I'm going to use this recycled packing paper, but you can use anything that you have at home.

You can use the back of a cereal box.

Really, anything will work.

Okay, so let's get started.

I'm going to use this stick to just mix up the mud a little bit more, and then we're going to go ahead and see how that goes on.

So let's just make a line here for our horizon.

It's nice and messy, but you can see that we're getting some nice lines out there for a horizon.

Let's add maybe a little mountain there.

So that's the stick.

Now let's try some of our other tools.

Let's start with this paintbrush here.

Get it in the mud there and smear it on.

Look at that.

Just like a regular paintbrush.

It's working perfectly.

We'll add some ridges to our mountain there.

Alright, now let's try this grass flower head.

It has this kind of rough texture on there, so it should grab on to the paint well.

Let's dip it in our mud.

Let's get another little mountain here.

And look at that.

It works almost like a fine brush there.

And we'll add this ridgeline there.

Very cool.

Lastly, I want to go ahead and just use this stick that I whittled to a point.

I'm hoping it can help me get some of the details there.

And let's put a little river in our valley.

It's not about getting a perfect picture.

It's just about going out, having fun and getting a little dirty.

And like every great artist, make sure you sign your work by using your finger.

Very cool.

-Have you ever noticed that different colors can make you feel different ways?

Take red, for example.

When I think of red, I think, stop!

Or hot, don't touch!

How about blue?

Blue makes me feel calm and peaceful.

What about the color green?

I think of nature and trees, even recycling.

And yellow.

What does yellow make you think of or feel?

Bright, sunny days?

Feeling happy?

There's also something really great about something being a color you're not expecting.

For example, a purple potato or a rainbow bagel, a feast for your eyes and all your senses.

Color brings so much joy to this world and it's everywhere.

All you have to do is look around.

♪♪ ♪ "Camp TV" ♪ ♪ It's time for us to part ♪ ♪ From furry animal encounters ♪ ♪ To summer reading and the arts ♪ ♪ No matter what the weather ♪ ♪ We'll explore it all together ♪ ♪ It's a place for you and me ♪ ♪ It's "Camp TV" ♪ -This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Additional funding was provided by Joan Ganz Cooney.

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