- 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 activity 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 going to 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, Jenn and Isaac.

- Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to Camp Fowler.

I'm Isaac.

- I'm Jenn.

- And I'm Gabby.

- And this week we're going to be talking about letting go and moving on.

Today, we're going to be illustrating that by playing a wonderful game of kickball with Jenn, Gabby and then our friends Jess, Conner and Dan.

- So you guys ready to play?

- Yes.

- So I'll pitch.

Then, Gabby's kicking, Jenn is on the base.

- That was a terrible pitch.

- Well, that was a terrible kick.

You didn't even get it at all.

- Well, maybe if you were just a better pitcher.

- Well, maybe if you were a better kicker.

I don't know what your deal is.

- Why do you keep trash talking me?

Like I'm just trying to kick the ball.

- I'm just saying what the truth is.

I don't understand.

- You're not even pitching it close to me.

- You're not even kicking it.

Like you are... It's your fault.

- You just need to pitch better.

- You need to kick better.

- OK.

Time out.

How about we try doing this differently?

All right, reset.

Let's try this again.

- You're bad at kickball!

You're the worst.

Why are you even playing?

She's bad, right?

- Coach, can I talk to you?

- Yeah.

What's up?

- Isaac just seems to really be talking a lot of trash.

- Oh, man.

I'm sorry.

I'll go talk to him.

What are you doing to help yourself out?

- I think I'm gonna do some deep breaths, maybe some muscle relaxation and kind of just feel the breeze.

- OK?

Cool.

I'm really proud of you for doing those things.

- Yeah.

- Let me go talk to Isaac.

- OK.

- OK.

Hey, I heard you've been using some not super nice words.

Can you think of anything?

- Maybe I was a little bit harsh to Gabby.

- OK.

- Yeah.

I wasn't nice.

- It's really good that you can admit that and use your integrity with that.

Now, remember, our words mean a lot.

They can really hurt people.

So if you could cut that out.

Use nice safe words.

OK.

All right.

I just won't say anything.

I think.

- If that's what you need to do at first.

OK.

OK.

- And then I'll encourage her.

- OK.

Cool.

- Isaac, are we good?

- We're good.

- Cool.

Good job, guys.

All right.

So sometimes things can get under our skin.

People can say things that hurt our feelings.

We can feel like we need to defend ourself.

That can make us angry.

It can make us want to fight or to talk back.

But those things never end up helping in the long run.

So we want you to think about a time where you were annoyed about something, frustrated or for some other reason had to figure out how to let go and move on.

So for your journal Prompt, write or draw about a time where you had to use some skills, some of the deep breathing or the muscle relaxation or talking to friends or a trusted adult to make it through your situation, to be able to let go and move on to be your best self.

Thanks for being here.

We'll see you tomorrow.

- Bye.

- See ya.

- That was great.

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

Everyone, I'm Jason Porter with the Cradle of Liberty Council STEM Committee.

Do you know how we can make music?

My friend just played that little harmonica there.

Do you know how we did that?

How we turned sound into music?

- No.

How did we do that?

- Well, let's check it out.

So let's look at what sound is, first of all, so sound is really a vibration.

Right?

So we can make a wave by vibrating a string like this.

And you can actually see what that string is doing.

It's making a wave.

Right?

So a sound is a wave.

And by vibrating things, we can make a sound.

Now, that's a thick string so I have a deep sound.

But if I wanted a higher sound, then I pluck a smaller string.

OK?

So the big string gives us that big low sound and that small string gives us that high sound.

So let's explore how we can turn that into music.

We're gonna make a popsicle stick harmonica.

So we're gonna need a couple of things to do that.

We are going to start out with two tongue depressor sized popsicle sticks, some large sticks.

We need one large rubber band and two small rubber bands.

We need some pieces of cardstock.

Just cut to about one inch by three inches and two pieces of that.

Any color will do.

I just happen to like blue.

And we need some pieces of tape.

So the first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna make the harmonica by putting the two sticks together and we're gonna take one of our pieces of cardstock and we're gonna fold it to make a little color.

We're just gonna put a piece of tape in place so that'll help it stay.

So you can see that's one side.

And we're going to do the exact same thing to the other side.

All right.

And so we did that so we can get the right thickness on these.

But what we actually need to do now is to remove one of the sticks.

Put it aside for a second and now we're gonna be left with one stick and the two pieces of cardstock.

OK?

So that was just the spacer.

And we're gonna add that stick back a little bit later.

And now we need to add in this rubber band.

And this is the really important piece, because this rubber band is going to allow us to get that wave.

Get that vibration.

OK.

So just like we saw with the string that we're vibrating it to get that sound wave, we're gonna vibrate this rubber band to get a sound wave.

So I'm just gonna take this big rubber band and I'm gonna string it around.

All right.

So it will just look like that.

These sliders are meant to move.

So exactly where they are doesn't matter too much.

You'll see that you can actually move those to change the sound.

Now we're going to take our other popsicle stick and add it back.

And we are almost done now.

The last pieces, we're just going to secure it.

Now, this is another important step because we want to sandwich the rubber band in between the two sticks.

But we don't want to make it too, too tight because if it's too tight, it won't vibrate.

OK, so we're gonna go around the edge, make sure we're not covering our cardstock.

So you can see the one side.

So secure it with a rubber band, do the same thing on the other side.

And I'll put my rubber band, second rubber band to secure it.

OK?

So when you're done, your popsicle stick harmonica is going to look like that.

And if we compare them, you see they look about the same.

Just red and green.

The way you're gonna play it is... Again, you can decide where you want to slide your little sliders, and you want to hold your harmonica, but you don't want to hold it too tight on the ends.

Because, again, the rubber band needs to be able to vibrate, needs to be able to move.

So hold it kind of loosely and give a little bit of a blow.

OK, you ready to jam?

A one and a two.

Thanks, kids.

Hope you have fun making your popsicle stick harmonica.

- That was fantastic.

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

Hello, campers.

Farmer Erika here.

As you can see, the garden is now going to be our little cooking area.

So time for me to teach you some tips on how to prepare some of the food that you might harvest in your garden.

So I went ahead and harvested some things, I'll give you a description.

We have some cucumbers from before, so we have the regular ones and then the white ones.

We have some tomatoes, some good old green beans.

And then I went ahead and I harvested a bunch of our leafy greens.

So we have in here the red Russian kale.

Some of that Swiss chard that I actually planted in the last show.

And some yellow chard.

So we'll use all of this.

I have a little bit of basil, which is kind of nice.

You might think basil in a salad?

But it adds a nice little flavor to it.

I have some flowers here and these are kind of flower called nasturtiums.

They're kind of sweet and spicy.

Also some squash blossoms.

So this is a little flower where some of the squash grow from.

These are ones that are not going to produce the fruit.

So that's when I snip them off.

And I can use it for salads.

And two little baby radishes.

So this is something called purslane, that people call a weed, but actually it's an edible one.

OK?

It has a lot of nutrition in it.

And I wanted to just teach you that, that sometimes people call things that are weeds and they don't eat them.

But in other cultures or depending what you know, you can actually use this and add it to your salad.

So the first step, I have my bowl here, have my knife.

Everything was washed and prepared.

So when I'm going to prepare my greens here, I'm going to show you a tip.

I hold this leafy green with my one hand here, and then I'm going to take it like this and try to snap off the edges just like that.

Next to me here I have my compost bucket.

So I want to teach you more about compost in another episode.

So I'm going to break my stem in half and make it really small and throw it into the bucket.

So as I get processing, just go through one to the next.

It's always good to learn.

What to do with the food that you grow.

Sometimes you grow things in the garden, or sometimes someone gives you a gift and says, here's a plant.

Enjoy it.

But if you don't know what to do with it or how to prepare it, it can be a little intimidating.

So I'm going to give you a little tip.

This is an easy tip of something that you can do.

It's not going to take you so long.

You don't have to worry about cooking anything.

It's a nice summer salad.

All right.

It's going to feel good.

Something nice and fresh on a hot day like today.

All right.

So now I have my greens.

What I'm going to do is I have a little knife here, which is good for me.

I don't need a big one.

If you have a big one you can use it too.

If you're younger, though, make sure you have someone with you.

No-one wants to cut themselves.

OK, so I want to cut it into little pieces like this.

Gently cutting the greens.

Kind of fluff it up.

Plop it in my bowl right here and break it a little bit more with your hands if needed.

Totally fine.

Then add some of this purslane in here.

So these stems are nice and juicy.

They have a lot of kind of water in them.

Just going to add a nice flavor.

They're actually a little salty, which is kind of interesting.

Flip them up.

Put that in there.

All right.

Time for my cucumbers, I want to see what this yellow cucumber looks like.

All right?

So let me give it a slice in the middle.

Previously, I talked about how it might be really seedy.

It's actually not too bad, but it is a little bit more seedy than I'd like for my salad.

So I'm going to try for another one.

Let's set that aside.

See about this guy.

Yes.

See, this is a little bit better if you see here.

It's a little bit better for salads.

Slice this up quick.

The best way to eat your lunch.

Go outside, pick some food, put it in my salad.

Here I have my three tiny little baby cherry tomatoes.

This is the beginning of tomato season.

I don't even have to cut them, I just plop them in there.

So these are the first ones that I harvested.

But once you pick a few, then they just keep growing and growing and growing.

Now I have my green beans.

I like to eat them raw.

So I'm going to actually just cut them up into little pieces, sprinkle them on top.

Just like this.

Little radishes here.

Remember these are nice and spicy, just add a little bit of heat and flavor.

Squash blossoms, these are easy.

All you have to do is check and look inside.

Make sure there's no insects in there.

Just gonna give it a slice right down the middle.

Pop it in there.

Last but not least, nasturtiums, these little flowers here.

You just sprinkle in and look at that.

Voila - you have a wonderful, nutritious salad.

Look at all those different colors.

So I hope you learned something today and I hope you explore with some of your foods.

See you next time.

- Thanks.

That was great.

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

- Hi, this is Lynn with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania.

We've been using our senses all week to explore nature and we've come to the last day.

But we're not just gonna be going around outside tasting things.

That could be dangerous.

But I do have some things from nature, and those are things you could taste if you have them at home and you probably do.

So let me start with this maple leaf puppet.

All right.

So imagine that this is a real leaf on a real maple tree.

This maple leaf has a job to do.

All the leaves on the tree have this job.

It is her job to make food for the tree.

But she has to have four things in order to do that, four things that the tree has to collect from the outdoors.

These are the same four things that all plants have to have.

Can you think what they might be?

If you guessed water, you're right.

She needs water.

Did you say soil?

Yes, you're right about that, too.

She needs minerals from the soil.

She also needs carbon dioxide from the air, which of course, we can't see.

But I'm going to blow some on her because that's what we breathe out.

There - now she has some carbon dioxide.

And one more thing.

The sun.

She needs the energy from the sun to combine those other ingredients to make the food.

You know what the food is?

It's sugar.

Yes.

Of course, a maple leaf makes maple sugar.

That's what I have in here.

Some really tasty maple sugar.

If you've ever had maple syrup, you can thank the maple tree for that.

The leaves on the trees made that.

Now, all plants make some form of sugar.

And since they're making all that sugar, plants have that sugar available to them and they can get animals and insects to do work for them because of that.

So check out this picture.

Here we have a flower which has some sweet nectar down in the flowers.

So sweet that it has gotten the bee to come over here to get the nectar, right?

And while the bee is here, do you see her belly here?

It's covered with pollen.

She has picked up this pollen from the flower.

And when she goes off to the next flower to get some more sweet nectar, she's going to drop some of that pollen.

And then that flower will get to make seeds, which will grow into new flowers.

Right?

So that's what the plants get out of it.

They get their pollen moved around.

What do the bees get out of it?

Well, they get the sweet nectar, which they can take back to the hive and make honey.

Have you ever had honey?

I love honey.

So this one.

This is a little clover honey.

Did you know that each flower, because it makes different kinds of nectar, when the bees make honey with it, the honeys all taste different.

Next time you go to the grocery store, if you need to get any honey, you might look to see what other flavors there are.

Clover is the most common, but you can find orange blossom, buckwheat honey or even a wildflower honey, which is a mixture.

All right.

Well, this is a sweet way to end the week.

And thanks for spending the week with us.

Bye.

- Now let's go explore with our friends from the Wildlands Conservancy.

- Welcome to the woods at Wildlands Conservancy's headquarters, at Dorothy Ryder Pool Wildlife Sanctuary.

I'm here with one of our education animals.

This is an eastern screech owl.

This owl is the second smallest species of our eight resident Pennsylvanian owls.

So although you might have thought she was a baby, she's actually full grown.

And as a bird of prey, she is a mighty hunter.

Now, this owl is a female.

She's slightly larger than her male cage mates.

And she actually just recently laid eggs.

Screech owls lay about four to six small white eggs that look like this.

In the wild these eggs would be laid in the cavity of a tree.

Owls do not build their own nests.

They take over nests that other animals have built, like a woodpecker, or use hollowed out spaces in trees.

Around that time, when they're claiming their nests in late winter, screech owls become very territorial.

A male will actually impress a female by choosing the best nest sites available.

If another male comes close, that male screech owl will make a series of vocalizations or try to chase that competing male owl out of his territory.

So if you want to elicit a call response from an owl, you can do that in winter and early spring by playing the call of a screech owl and seeing if there's a resident owl nearby, because he will answer you to try to assert his dominance and say that that's his territory and these are his nesting spots.

So the screech owl is absolutely found in the woodlands of PA But they've also been able to take up residence in urban and suburban areas as well, where they can hunt for their prey food like rodents, small mammals, small amphibians.

This guy tends to eat a lot of chicks and mice here, and he's got some adaptations that help him do that.

So if you look closely at an owl, you're going to notice that they have these big focused eyes.

They cannot move their eyeballs like we can, looking to the left and the right.

But they do have more bones in their neck than we have, which allows them to have a bigger rotation.

So although they can't move their eyes, if they want to look at something making a sound, they can turn their head farther than we can and focus in on it.

In addition to that strong eyesight, they have an amazing sense of hearing.

These tufts his head are not his ears.

Those can actually move interchangeably and help him break up a shape and blend into a tree like the ones behind me.

His ears are located asymmetrically, which means when she hears a sound, she can triangulate or pinpoint exactly where that sound is coming from to focus on her prey.

When she takes flight, she has what's called silent flight.

Unlike a hawk or a turkey vulture, which you would hear fly close to you, air just goes through the tips of an owl's feathers, which are serrated.

And so a prey animal doesn't even hear that owl coming.

It makes them super lethal at night when they do their hunting.

They pick up their prey with these talons.

And because the screech owl is really small can actually be preyed upon by bigger owls, they often take their food back to that tree cavity and will eat it there or share with their young there.

They're pretty messy as far as nesting goes.

So they may have leftover food, they will have pellets which are the regurgitated things that they can't digest from their meal, which they cough up.

All of that will gather in their tree cavity.

But by late summer, their babies are now fledglings and making their way out of the nest and are soon on their way to claim their own territories.

So if you want to find some owls near you, I encourage you to go out at night and grab a call wand so you can play some owl calls and listen closely to any responses you may hear.

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

- Hello, I'm John with Minsi Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America.

And welcome back to it's camp.

On today's session of it's camp, I'm going to go over my fourth knot which is the clove hitch.

The story behind the clove hitch.

It is a knot that starts with the clove hitch and ends with a clove hitch.

So if I had a long rope and I was tying a project together using spars or wooden branches together, the clove hitch is that knot to start with and also end with.

The tale or story behind the clove hitch is, it's commonly formed by an X after you have tied it completely together.

There are two ways to tie the knot though, and I will go over both ways to tie the knot.

The first method of tying the clove hitch is here is my dowel here.

So I'm going over the dowel rod, holding it on one end.

Now, I got my working end, I am creating an X by going over it again.

Now that I have my X here, I'm taking my working end for the last step and I'm going under the X right through the middle, and I'm pulling through.

OK?

That is the clove hitch.

So I have my X and that working in went right underneath the middle, cinched and pulled, and there is the one method of the clove hitch.

This would be tied if I had a long pole or long stick that I cannot reach or tie on with the end.

This is just going around the object.

The easier way to tie this knot, if you have as simple as a short piece of wood or a spar, pipe, whatever the case may be, you can slide or slip it right over.

If you remember mentioning earlier in one of the knot tying sessions, I mentioned that most knots have a story or tale behind it.

This tale or story to tie the clove hitch is very simple and it's always easy to remember.

So if you can remember, this is the overhand knot and I made an underhand knot.

Now, I have Mickey Mouse ears, or two bites side by side.

If you remember Mickey Mouse and the overhand, underhand knot, you're already halfway there.

The next step is one bite goes down, one bite goes up, and you cross them just like that.

After you cross them, you already have your X and a line going through.

Now it's as simple as just sliding the rope over your object and pulling through.

And there you go again.

There is a clove hitch, the X and the line going through.

But I slipped and slid it over.

This is the easier way to do this knot if you have the ability and capability to do it that way.

That's all I have for today on it's camp with knots.

Thank you for attending and we'll see you again.

- 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.

And today I'm going to show you how to make your own scratch art paper using markers and black crayons.

So on just any piece of paper, I like something a little bit stiffer just so I don't accidentally poke a hole through it when we get to the scratching part, you're going to use your markers to draw any sort of pattern or design you want, use as many colors as you want to.

And because this is camp and I'm thinking of summer and fun things like that, I'm going to kind of get inspired by tie dye and just do a fun kind of bursting pattern with as many colors as I can fit on the page before I run out of room.

And the brighter your colors are, the better they're going to show up.

Yellows will probably show up really well.

But like a purple or a navy blue might not be quite as bright.

I always like to avoid leaving any white space on here just because when you scratch up your artwork, you want to be able to see some cool colors under there.

So I think my drawing is done.

It's a little bit kind of bright and maybe a little bit sloppy, but tie dye is supposed to be.

Now, what I'm gonna do is take a black crayon and I'm going to color over the entire thing.

I'm gonna press down pretty hard so I can't see through it.

It's OK if it's not, like, completely opaque, but you don't want to just go on lightly.

You want it to actually hide your design underneath it.

All right.

So my scratch art paper is good enough.

It's close enough to done as I expect it to be.

And now what you can do for your next step is take a skewer, take a toothpick, a popsicle stick, anything you can find and just start scratching into the surface.

And that's going to carve away that black crayon on top.

And you can make whatever design you want to.

So I'm thinking, the black always makes me think of outer space and stuff like that.

So I might try to make sort of a space scene with some planets and some stars.

And the great thing about this kind of scratch paper versus like your standard scratch paper that you might buy at the store is because you're doing this with your own crayons and stuff like that, you know, if you want to really emphasize one of your shapes, you can go back in and draw back around it again.

So maybe I have a planet there.

I'll make another planet over here by carving in really carefully and trying to carve out that whole circle.

And maybe I'll add some stars in here.

The thinner your lines are, probably the bolder they'll show up.

But again, you can use your black crayon to, like, color over any patchy parts that you notice again and say, oh, wait, I want that to be a little bit darker.

That part is entirely up to you.

Again, here is my outer space scene.

And this is how you make scratch art.

If you guys tune in again tomorrow, I'll show you how to make a paper flower just using tissue paper or construction paper and maybe some glue or tape.

- What a great day.

We hope you had fun with us today.

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

- Bye.