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.

What a beautiful day for a walk.

I wish I had someone here to enjoy this nature with me.

Just such a beautiful day.

Ow, ow, ow, ow.

My ankle.

Ow!

This was a terrible idea.

Whoo!

Honey, I'm gonna need some help.

Oh, my gosh, it's hurts so bad.

Oh, I really wish I had someone here with me.

This was such a bad idea.

It's OK.

Gabby's really all right.

Hi, I'm Dan.

I'm Jen.

I'm Isaac.

Today, Renee really focused more about safety.

Gabby, she went out hiking by herself alone in the woods.

And that's really wasn't a good idea to do.

So, John, do you know what she really should have done?

Well, she probably should have waited for someone to be able to go with her at least.

Yeah, the actual official phrase is called the buddy system.

She should have had somebody with her in case something would have happened.

So we're going to see what happens again with Gabby, but with the buddy system and your friends going with her on that hike?

Well, I feel so great to be doing this hike with my friends.

Yeah.

So nice out here.

Great idea.

Gabby.

So beautiful out.

Oh, wow.

Oh, my gosh.

You all right?

Hey.

Hey.

Have a seat.

Oh, my ankle.

What does it feel like?

You feel a lot of pain?

Yeah, a lot of pain.

Good thing we're all here.

So, Isaac, can you go up the trail?

Maybe you could use your phone by your car.

Says we forgot our phones.

And Jen.

Can you go with him and see if we can get like a first aid kit?

Sounds good.

Stay with her just in case.

Okay.

That's good.

Don't move it too much.

All right.

Good.

Where's your threshold of pain?

Are you an eight or six, maybe four?

I would say I'm about five.

All right.

That's not too bad.

That's not too bad.

We're gonna wait until they come back.

Okay.

All right.

Good.

I'm so glad.

I just had friends here with me.

We got a nice pack, a kind of chill it up and, you know, do that icy hot stuff.

Hey, we found Jeff.

She's here to help us out.

She got her first aid kit and an ice pack for it.

Good.

See?

There we go.

So, yeah.

Good.

See, this was a great idea that we all were here for this hike, because what would happen if you were here by yourself?

It would have been that you would've been really dangerous.

Pretty terrible.

So, campers, that's why being safe is so, so important.

And having the buddy system imply wherever you go, whether it's with a partner or with a group of people, for example, you don't want somebody going by themselves if they have a medical condition of some kind.

For example, if they're diabetic or if they're allergic to something like bees, cause something might happen.

And if they're by themselves, then, you know, we don't want them to get seriously injured and anything worse than that.

So it's really important to make sure you have the buddy system when it comes to medical conditions.

Yeah, and you might recognize the buddy system from school.

Some schools have this where you can't even leave the classroom without a friend, and that's just to make sure everyone stays safe.

Another time you might have a friend share something with you that feels like it might be unsafe and you can kind of use that like this where I was able to go and get help and bring more people in to help us, even though it wasn't a physical situation.

The last one to be safe is being emotionally safe.

So if a friend tells you something that you might be able to help them with, like Jen said, or if you are not feeling comfortable, maybe going to talk to somebody by yourself, you want to bring a buddy, you want to bring somebody with you, or maybe have them on the phone with you or whatever it might be, just having that emotional and social safety as well.

Buddy system.

Our drill prompt for this week is when was there a time that you saw somebody being unsafe and what did you do about it?

So that's our journal prompt for today.

And hope you get a good response.

And we hope you got a good lesson from this theme of being safe and using the buddy system Bye.

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

Let's go learn something new.

Hi, my name's Christine and today we're gonna do a little color experiment if you haven't noticed already.

I love color and I love experimenting with it.

So being an artist is kind of like being a scientist sometimes.

But I have a question for you to start.

It's a black marker.

Really black.

We're gonna test that out today and some other fun color experiments.

So we're gonna do something called chromatography, which the word chroma, meaning color and tography, meaning writing.

It's like writing color.

And what it is, is it's separating the components of a mixture, which is gonna be our black marker.

So what you're gonna need is some filter paper like coffee filters.

You're gonna need some water and you're going to need a spray bottle, possibly pipe cleaners.

The markers are really important that you use water soluble markers.

And that's because we want to break down the colors that are inside of the ink.

So to start with, I'm going to take my filter and my black marker.

Also gonna need my water and one of the pipe cleaners.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my marker and just in the middle, I'm going to color a few dots with my black marker.

Maybe some four dots.

And it looks like a button.

Sure, you have a nice juicy marker when a lot of ink to work with.

I'm going to take my pipe cleaner.

I'm putting it in here so it's a little long.

So I think I'm just gonna bend it in half.

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to wet the pipe cleaner.

And then on the ends, there's a little wire in there.

So what you can do is just poke it right through.

I'm going to let this sit there for a little bit.

It's going to take a little time.

So while it's working on its color and separating and spreading out that water, I'm just going to set it aside and do a few other color experiments and we'll get back to that in a minute.

So I like to use some of the other colors as well.

So let's take some more filter paper.

It is a good idea to have a paper underneath because you can see it goes right through this really thin coffee.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to think about color.

And when I'm thinking about color, I'm going to pick out maybe the primary colors.

These are great to start with.

And if you only have a few colors, go with these.

You can make all the other colors with these.

And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put a few colors down.

You can do this anyway.

If you get creative with this, you can make dots.

You can make stripes.

Maybe a rainbow experiment, a lot of different ways.

I'm just going to put a few colors on here, and since I'm using my cup already, I'm going to use my spray bottle.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to spray.

You can see this right away.

See the colors start to mix.

I'm going to keep going.

I'm going to use some other colors while that's doing its magic there.

What do you think will happen if I use the blue and red this time?

I going back to this one.

See, I'm starting to see green.

Let's try one more.

There are so many ways you can do this.

All right, now we're going to let those dry for a little bit.

I can already see a little bit of purple over there in the blue and red white.

And let's check on our first black color experiment.

Now, if you look real closely, you can see the colors are starting to separate.

You're seeing chromatography happening right here.

And I can start to see that there are some bread and some blue in that black mixture.

So I have one here and I let it sit for quite a while.

So you can see what will eventually happen.

And if you look closely, you can almost not see any black at all.

And I see a lot of red and a lot of blue in that mixture right there.

There's a lot of things you can do then afterwards with your colored dry paper.

A lot of beautiful colors.

I tried to rainbow this one kind of looks like tie dye.

Lots of fun things you can do.

And you could draw on these.

You could make some beautiful sun catchers.

Here's how I use my lid.

You look beautiful with the sunlight coming through them.

You can even cut them up and turn them into paper flowers.

So I hope you can get really creative with this.

Have fun and enjoy your color experiment.

Thanks again.

We'll see you soon.

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 Percher Scott Reservation for Mitch TROs Council.

Today, we're going to learn about how to use a map.

And a compass and putting the two together to show you how to actually use them.

So earlier we discussed on how to actually get a compass.

To point in the right direction.

So what first thing we want to do is we want to bail it out or what's called or ending a map.

When you're worried a map, first thing we have to do is get our compass.

Put it to north.

Put our north on our bearing and then we want to rotate our compass around until the red line is matched up with our north, and what we're gonna do here is.

We're gonna lay our compass.

There is a little item here called the legend.

And this is going to be our true north.

We're gonna take our compass.

So we're going to lay the edge of our compass along the edge of that.

That line.

And then what we're gonna do is really take our map.

And we are now going to rotate our map.

Until we have the red line.

With the north and in our line of travel.

So now what we know is we know that this map is facing the right direction.

So we know that as I'm looking at the map in this case here, my north is in that direction.

From there, a couple of ways of finding out where you're at.

Are you would go and look into distance and see if there's a mountain top.

That's a good idea.

So we would find a mountain top.

If we saw one in the distance, we would look.

For a mountain top where we're at, let's just say this was our mountain top because we talked yesterday about contour lines, so we're going to look at that and we know that this is around circle and we know that's a top of a mountain.

So if I can see that off in the distance, I know that that's there.

Then if we have a highway, you can actually look at that highway and plot yourself where you're at.

Then.

Once we get our idea of where we're at and our map is lined up.

What we would do is our map stays where it's at.

And if I see a mountain off in the distance, we would turn our compass around.

We would.

Face that direction, turn our compass until the little red line goes to north.

Read the degrees on it.

And then we can transfer that over to the actual map itself.

Again, remembering that if it's black, it was man.

Learning from yesterday's lessons, we can pick ourselves out on a map.

We can also use landmarks such as roads, highways.

If you happen to have a school nearby and you can see it on a map.

In this case here, this is a swamp area.

If you know that you're in a swamp area.

You can use utilize that also in order to find out where you're at.

And you can you can do what's called triangulating, which is using three different no locations and transferring it onto a map.

That's it for today.

So hopefully tomorrow, join us back here and we're gonna be discussing how to actually use the first section of learning accomplish from learning a map to actually transferring this actually using it out on a trail.

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

Hi, welcome back to its camp.

I'm Elise from Valley Youth House today.

And the theme of taking care of herself and others.

We're going to talk about self-care in the metaphor of art.

When we take care of ourselves or do self-care, we think about maybe a warm blanket or layering on some fun activities in our life.

Art can be one of those activities.

But I also want to play with the idea of layering.

So today we're going to layer a few of our pages in our altered book and then we're going to create a pocket that you can put something in a pocket, usually fold something that you care about.

It's a way to also hide something or keep something safe.

So to get started, I have a box full of random ingredients.

So this is my scrap box that I've built over the years.

I have some old art projects I ripped up.

I have bubble wrap.

More art projects that I ripped up and lots of tissue paper.

Another thing that's really good for layering and everyone should have a home is some toilet paper.

So to get started, you will need your moj podge or your homemade Marje Posch, which is your homemade liquid glue and then random ingredients that you would like to layer with.

You can layer with fabric as well or even string or something like that.

So to get started, I'm going to take my Marje Podge and add some to my page.

And as you add things.

They should stick, but then you're gonna take another layer of Monge pause right over it.

Compress it down to the paper.

So we will fill.

This paper has some.

Water colors on it.

So when you re wet, it might bleed a little bit, but it's not a big deal.

Another thing that you can use for layering is those ripped out book pages that are good.

For your scrap bit we talked about on Monday.

So if you have those old pages that you ripped out of your book, when we prepped the book, feel free to add those and then add some bubble wrap here.

Again, bubble wrap can be seen as a metaphor is something that protects you or keep something safe.

And we're going to let that dry while it tries, I'm just going to trim some of this up.

So it fits in our book.

Nicely.

I guess I should layer some toilet paper, too, since I brought it.

This is real easy.

I like to crinkle it up a bit.

And use the texture.

Again, there is no right or wrong.

Just have some fun, learn as you go.

So you have your two pages, one after another that are layered up and what you're going to do is if you have double sided tape, that would be your first option.

I don't have it with me today.

So what we're going to do is take some glue.

You can use your Raasch Poche or a bottle of glue.

It's fine.

It doesn't matter.

Lots of options.

And you're going to just.

Follow the bottom half of your paper.

This is where the page is going to stick to create a pocket.

Well, that gets tacky.

You can take your scissors and figure out how do you want your pocket?

Do you want it straight across?

Do you want a diagonal?

I have regular scissors here, but I also have these fun scissors that create a pattern that you can use.

Because this is still a little wet.

I'm going to use my regular scissors, him and a cut on a diagonal, I think.

I want my pocket to be a diagonal.

And you want to cut it out of your book.

You could probably actually rip it.

It might feel like a mess, but it's OK.

And this piece can go to the side or in the trash.

So you have your pocket piece.

You can put it over where your glue is, seal it.

And then once you're all glued down and it's dry, you can put something in your pocket for safekeeping.

So that's one of our techniques for the altered book.

Come back tomorrow for another technique.

Thank you.

That was awesome.

Thank you.

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

Hi, friends.

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

Today we're gonna make some healthy snacks.

Ants on a log.

So I'm going to show you two different variations to this.

Use whatever you have, but either way, it's gonna be delicious.

So our ingredients are peanut butter.

I have chunky peanut butter.

You could also use your favorite kind of nut butter or some butter.

Anything you have that's gonna be sticky.

You could even use cream cheese if you won.

I also have some nice stalks of celery washed and cut so that you missed the root in the tips.

And then I also have mini marshmallows and some reasons.

So we're gonna get started by putting some peanut butter onto our celery.

And you're just gonna spread it down in the little valley that the celery already has.

You want to make sure you get peanut butter in every bite of use.

So the reason that they're called ants on a log is because they're traditionally made with just reasons.

So what we're gonna do next is I'm going to take my reasons.

I'm going to put them on my luck.

You can line them up however you want.

I like to be, you know, evenly spaced.

But you could put as many as you want in here.

You could only have one or two.

You could have a little.

And family's.

Little group of ants, maybe I'll do an ant family in the back.

Look, there's like five or six people back there.

So that's our regular ants on the walk.

Next, I'm going to show you a possibly better version of ants on the log.

And I hope you try this.

OK.

This is great if you're going on a hike because you get some protein from the nut butter and keep you going on your hike.

We're gonna spread that in our little valley here.

All right.

And now I'm going gonna do marshmallows.

All right.

Again, I like them evenly spaced.

But you can do it however you like.

You could even add some reasons in with your marshmallows.

All right.

So I hope that you'll take these on a hike.

What you do is you just throw them in a nice Ziploc bag or a reusable bag and you can carry them with you.

Thank you so much.

I hope you make these and have a great day.

Thanks.

That was so neat.

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

Hi, my name, Solanum.

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

Today, I'm going to show you how to draw an optical illusion just using like pencil ruler and maybe some markers.

So my example for today is this one, which started out as a simple checkerboard pattern.

But when you get to a certain point like the middle, the side, you get your boxes a little bit smaller and it kind of makes it look like your design is kind of going inward, like maybe it's folded or something like that.

So this one's pretty simple to make.

Optical illusions are always a little bit time consuming because there is a lot of repetition.

But with my ruler, I'm going to measure out my lines and I like to start with some wider boxes on the edge and move towards skinnier boxes in the middle for this design.

So I think I'll start out with an inch and a half on my left side and then I'll just gradually shrink them each time.

So I just marked an inch and a half.

And now I will add an inch and a quarter.

So I'm working at two and three quarters.

And each time I add a box, I'm just going to slowly shrink it down.

And maybe it's OK if you do a couple of the same size box in a row.

So maybe I'll do two one inch boxes in a row.

But now shrinking down to three quarters of an inch and then down to half of an inch and then I'll do a quarter of an inch wide and another quarter of an inch wide.

Now I think I'm going to make my boxes get bigger again.

So I'm going to increase them at kind of the same rate I did before.

And I'll just go up a half inch now.

Up three quarters of an inch.

Up to an inch.

All right.

So I got my first edge done.

And ordinarily, I recommend measuring the same lines along the bottom.

So rather than doing that this time around, because I know myself, I know I'm going to forget how far apart all the lines are.

I'm just going to try to kind of line up against the edge here as best as possible.

Generally, I don't recommend this because you're going to wind up being a little bit off at some point.

But if you use the line on your ruler and use that to kind of keep the edge straight, it should help a bit.

So I'm just going to take these lines all the way across my paper.

Again, always trying to keep them as lined up as possible.

I have all my vertical lines done and now I need to do my horizontal lines.

So for this step, you can do kind of the same idea we just did where you make your lines closer and closer together as you get to the center.

But I'm just going to do one inch line all the way down both directions just to kind of keep things simple for me.

So I'm just marking at each inch as I go down my ruler.

And you want to make sure that this is an eight and half inch wide piece of paper.

So I'm going to have this half inch along the bottom.

We want to make sure that the one half inches in the same spot on both sides.

So I'm going to go down again.

Along the half-inch.

And now I'm going to connect all of my lines again.

So now I have two sets of lines that's going to make it a lot easier to make sure my lines stay straight.

But because I'm going one inch, it is easier for me to measure.

So here we go, connecting all these lines.

All righty.

So now I have my grid finish and it probably doesn't look like an optical illusion yet.

It's just a bunch of lines, but when you start coloring your grid in, you'll start to kind of see that movement emerge.

So when you color in your shapes here, you want to stick with a checkerboard pattern like this one where you go every other box in all directions and you can fill that in with the color and you can, of course, use multiple colors at once.

So if you wanted, you could do like purple for the dark boxes, yellow for the light boxes or any two colors you want.

But the one thing you want to keep in mind, in order to make this look like an optical illusion, you want to alternate colors in a checkerboard pattern.

But that is it for today.

Thank you guys so much for watching.

If you tune in again tomorrow, I'll show you have to make another optical illusion.

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.