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Additional funding was provided by the Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York.

♪♪ -♪ "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.

Welcome to "Camp TV."

So good to see you, Mimi, Kyoshi, Tao, Joaquin, Alisa, Jake, Liam, Malia, DeShawn, James, Sarah, Ali, Moshe, Sanaya, Chiyo... [breathes deeply] ...Atticus, Charlie, Jadari, Olivia, Mariella, Emma, Andres, Miles, Zahra, Johnny, Adelina, Lucero, Jose... ♪♪ [inhales sharply] ...Sandra, Kevin, Michael, Michelle, Huan, Deion, Kareem, LaShawn, Bob, Tameeka, Logan, Jesse, Hannah, Kimi, Ben, Robert, Lola, Mariana, Tessa, Uma, Talia, Julia, Lea, Ryan, Alex, Mara, Dwayne, Kira, Elijah!

[ Inhales deeply ] Whew!

Okay, this is going to take a while, so, for now, I will just say... welcome to Celebrate Your Name Day on "Camp TV"... [inhales deeply] ...Michael, Juan, Amanda, Luis, Bao, Adam... A little birdie told me it's time to go wild.

-Hi, friends.

My name is Chelsea, and I'm an animal interpreter here at the Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee.

We are joined by some of the macaws that call the Memphis Zoo their home, thanks to our friends at Avian Behavior International, who are sharing their birds with us and guests just like you.

Now, macaws are big and bright birds that live fascinating lives in South America.

Now, besides being absolutely beautiful, they serve a really important job in their homes.

Now, even though macaws are far away from us, there are things that we can do to help them do that job.

Now let's dive in and learn more about the marvelous world of macaws.

There are 16 species of macaws around today, and we have three of them here at the Memphis Zoo.

We have blue and gold macaws, a military macaw, and a green-winged macaw, just like Balboa here.

Now, one thing you'll notice about macaws is that large, powerful beak.

They use those to break open nut shells and seeds to eat all the tasty bits inside.

Now, they're also a great line of defense.

The bite of a macaw like this is as powerful as a large dog.

So messing with them is no joke, in the wild or here at the zoo.

Along with their beaks, macaws stand out in the animal kingdom for their bright hues.

Ranging in shades across the rainbow, these birds use their flashiness to their advantage.

As flock birds, macaws stay with their own kind for protection.

If a predator comes by, they all fly away in a confusing flash of brilliant colors.

What a show!

Macaws aren't all looks.

They're also very smart.

Because they spend time in large groups and live to be into their 80s in some cases, macaws know how to get along with others while staying alive.

Some macaws are thought to be as smart as 2-year-old human children.

Macaw parents will even assign different sounds or names to their children.

That sounds a lot like us.

Those awe-inspiring adaptations we talked about help macaws do their jobs in their environment.

Because they eat fruits, seeds and nuts, macaws are what we call seed dispersers.

Seed dispersers go from tree to tree eating fruits and swallow seeds, then move on to another part of the forest, where they poop out those seeds.

Luckily for the seeds, poop is a great fertilizer, so the new plant can grow easily.

Macaws are like the gardeners of the rainforest.

Because these seeds grow into trees, macaws are considered a keystone species.

Without them, there would be no new growth in the forest.

Lots of other animals rely on trees to survive and wouldn't be around without macaws.

Unfortunately, macaws are in danger of losing their homes.

The demand for paper products is very high in the world right now, which means lots of trees are being cut down.

This hurts not only the macaws, but the animals that rely on them to plant more trees.

The beauty and intelligence of macaws is also what causes them to be taken from the wild and kept as pets.

When they're taken from the wild, they're not able to do their job as seed dispersers.

The good news is that you can help macaws in their homes right now from your own home.

Remember all those trees being cut down?

Well, you can do something to help by using less paper.

For example, you can draw on both sides of the same piece of paper, you can use scrap paper for art, and you can even use paper to make fun crafts.

Look at these cool toilet paper crafts I made.

Now the macaws have their trees and I have some fun new toys.

-Welcome back, my fair Camp TV-ers.

How farest thou this day?

'Tis I, William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright who ever lived.

And I ask you -- what's in a name?

Turns out, a lot.

A name is so much more than just a collection of letters and sounds.

It can reveal a lot about who you are, where your family's from, the language you speak, your traditions, religion, and, of course, who you are related to.

But it can also represent the hopes and wishes your family might have for you.

And there's often a story why it was chosen just for you.

So, do you know the origin of your name, what it means, why it was given to you?

Are you named after or in honor of someone special?

Perhaps I am the world's best playwright, but to thine own self be true.

I guarantee no one can tell a better story than the story of you.

[ Horse whinnies ] Alas, the time is nigh.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

I must take my leave, and timeth for thee to wend to thy next activity.

♪♪ Arts and crafts?

Yes, please!

Let's Get Artsy.

♪♪ -Hi, campers.

Welcome to Tennessee Tech University's Appalachian Center for Crafts.

My name is Rena Wood, and I am the head of the fibers department here at Tennessee Tech.

Today we're going to do a surface design project, and you are going to design your own T-shirt with all different things that you can probably find at home.

So, we are using a non-washable acrylic paint.

Any paint that you have that is acrylic and non-washable should work.

And we're also using items from your kitchen to stamp with.

So, I have an assortment of veggies that we're going to try out.

I have carrots, celery, potatoes, and peppers.

We are using a 100% cotton shirt, prewashed.

So, you can have your grown-up help you out with washing your shirt, and you can use an old shirt and recycle your favorite shirt that maybe needs a little bit of updating and a new design.

We also like to put a piece of cardboard inside of our shirt so that we don't transfer the print all the way to the back.

So, if you have an old box that was sent to you, you can put that in between your shirt, and you can see I have a really large one here for my shirt.

So, I have our paints already laid out here.

I love to mix paints and not just pour them out directly from the bottle so that they're truly my own colors and they're a little bit more unique than just straight from the tube.

Once you get your paints mixed, you can decide how you want to lay out your pattern.

You can do a repeat print, or you can do an all-over print like I have on my shirt.

Another fun thing to do is to start at the top and then work your way down and do different vegetables as you work your way down.

So, we're going to start here with a pepper, and I've tapped it into my paint and then tapped out a little bit of it.

Make sure I have enough on it, on a little scrap piece of paper.

And I'm going to start printing.

♪♪ You can keep coming back to your paint.

And I'll print all over this shirt.

And I will try some other vegetables to see what shape they are.

Carrots are great for polka dots.

Celery are great for half-moon shapes.

So, let's try some other colors here and see what we can get.

Maybe a little celery inside of each one.

So, I started with my pepper and I added my celery design and now I'm going to use my third color from my color palette and I'm going to add one more detail on each one.

♪♪ And I like to use paper plates for my paint.

So, you can use a paper plate, or if you have any plastic plates, you can wash them really good when you're finished using them.

Another technique that you can try is putting down a little bit of a tape resist.

This will make your design have a break in it, or it could have a stripe like you see right here.

So, I'll put a couple of pieces of tape down, and I'm going to switch to a larger potato and a sweet potato and see if I can get a few designs that vary here.

♪♪ And I will continue and I will fill up this entire shirt.

Once I'm finished with this front part of the shirt, then I will let the front completely dry and then turn it over and do the same design on the back side of my shirt so that it goes all the way around.

Press hard and make sure that you apply even pressure on both sides of your stamp so that it completely creates the entire shape.

I'm going to go ahead and reveal our resist, pull my tape up.

♪♪ ♪♪ Now I have some open area that I can fill back in with another shape.

So, I think I'm going to go back to my celery because I really like how it has that curved half-circle line, and I think it'll fill in really nicely here.

♪♪ So, one part of our T-shirt that we don't want to forget are the sleeves.

So, if you have a scrap piece of cardboard, you can slide it in, again, to protect the layers and to spread out your shirt.

And then you can stamp on that part, as well, so no part of your T-shirt is left undesigned.

Every pepper is a little bit different.

Every vegetable is a little different shape.

So feel free to grab a couple of each and see what happens when that cross-section is printed.

I love the peppers because they look like flowers.

And remember, if you think you made a mistake, it's just an opportunity to change your design and try something new.

So, I have a couple of peppers down there that didn't print perfectly, so I'm just going to pick up my veggies and I'm going to add more and just keep painting and changing my design and letting those accidents become opportunities to create something different.

There really aren't any rules.

So, if you love bright colors, rainbow colors, just go for it.

Try as many as you want.

So, when your shirt is completely finished, you want to wait and let it dry.

If you're in a hurry, you can have a grown-up come and help you with a hair dryer to dry it so you can flip it over and print the back side.

Once both sides are totally dry, you have a few different ways to set your pigment.

You can iron it with a hot iron for five minutes on each side, and I would put down a piece of cloth in between your iron and your T-shirt.

Or you can throw it in the dryer for half an hour and just let it heat up in the dryer and the pigment will be set.

And when you think that you're finished, you can sit back and enjoy your print as it dries and you know that nobody else has a T-shirt just like this.

This is truly one of a kind, and you designed it from start to finish.

So, well done, campers.

Thank you for joining me today.

♪♪ -You took the words right out of my mouth.

Write On.

-"My Pen Pal," by Eden, a 9-year-old from California.

♪♪ -"Dear Sylvia, I'm writing this letter to you "even though you live next door.

"I've been doing math homework, but I'm bored.

"I hope you're having fun.

"I just wanted to say that nothing will change, "that you're my best friend.

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ -"Dear Elaine, want to come over and play?

Love, Sylvia."

♪♪ -"Dear Sylvia, I can't believe what your dad just told us.

"I can't believe you're moving away.

"But nothing will change that you're my best friend.

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ -"Dear Elaine, we're moving tomorrow.

I'll miss you, so you need to write to me.

Deal?"

-"Dear Sylvia, deal.

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ -"Dear Elaine, it's been a month since I moved away.

"Doesn't it feel like the time has flown by?

"But nothing will change that you're my best friend.

Love, Sylvia."

-"Dear Sylvia, "I don't think time went too fast.

"I think it went very slow.

"But maybe because nothing ever happens here.

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ -"Dear Elaine, I made a new friend.

"His name is Isaac."

-Isaac?

Isaac?!

[ Dramatic music playing ] Oh, wait, there's more.

-"But nothing will change that you're my best friend."

Love, Sylvia."

♪♪ ♪♪ -"Dear Sylvia, now it's been a year.

"I miss you.

"Nothing will change that you're my best friend.

"I've been so lonely since you left.

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ "Dear Sylvia, you haven't responded to me in a long time.

What have you been doing?

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ "Dear Sylvia, it's been three weeks.

Why haven't you responded?

Love, Elaine."

♪♪ ♪♪ "This is my diary.

I wanted to write to Sylvia, but she isn't responding."

[ Doorbell rings ] "Oh, the doorbell just rang.

Let me get it."

-[ Gasps ] -[ Gasps ] "Oh, my goodness.

It's Sylvia!

"She's at my door.

"This is what we said."

Sylvia, what are you doing here?

-I live here now.

-What?

-I moved back.

-Yay!

Can we write a letter together?

-To who?

-Our future selves.

-Yay!

-Yay!

-"Dear Sylvia and Elaine, "we know that nothing will ever change that we're best friends.

Love, us."

♪♪ The end!

-Welcome back to Celebrate Your Name Day on "Camp TV."

And what better way to celebrate than by making a name sign?

You can hang it on a wall, your bedroom door, or anywhere you'd like.

You will need some pipe cleaners, some glue, a piece of cardstock, a hole punch, and a pencil.

First, write your name on a piece of cardstock.

Then bend some pipe cleaners into the shape of the letters that make your name.

That's a Z.

♪♪ A little there in the middle.

Okay, that'll work.

♪♪ There.

That's a C. And then let's do H in pink.

♪♪ And center.

Then trace the letters on the cardstock with glue and put your letters on top.

♪♪ Then punch two holes at the top of the sign.

♪♪ Next, cut an assortment of multicolored stems about six inches in length and wrap those pieces tightly around another pipe cleaner to form fuzzy beads.

♪♪ Fold it in half to create a hanger.

Twist each end of the hanger into the holes, and what do you know?

It's your name in all its glory.

Ready for some math that counts?

Count On!

-Hi, everyone.

I'm Norah, and I'm going to show you one of my favorite ways to play around with math at home.

It's time to... match my height!

[ Kids cheer ] This is a fun game where you guess how many of a certain object it'll take lined up in a row to match my height.

But first, how tall am I?

Let's measure.

Okay.

I've got my tape measure here to help me figure out how tall I am.

And what I'm going to do is just start at the zero end at the very bottom, and I'm going to pull that down till it's just barely touching the floor, right where my toes are.

And then I'm going to keep pulling this up -- make sure that's still there -- until I get to the top of my head.

And if you have a friend or someone who can help you, it makes this a little bit easier.

But let's see.

I'm just about...69 inches, or 5 feet and 9 inches tall.

I've gathered up some objects from around my house that I'm going to test out.

But first, I'm going to make some predictions on this chart here.

So, in this column, I'm going to write the name of the object that I've gathered.

Then in the middle, I'm going to put my prediction, or my guess, for how many times I need to line up that object to match my height.

And then, after I test it, I'll put the answers over here so we can see how close I got.

So, my first object is... ...a parrot!

So, I'm going to write "parrot" over here.

And you could also draw a picture to help you remember if you wanted to.

I'm going to draw a little... bird with a beak.

There's my parrot.

Now let's guess -- how many parrots lined up would it take to match my height?

Hmm.

I'm going to guess... 10 parrots.

Alright.

Object two is... an umbrella.

I'm going to keep my umbrella closed to keep my good luck.

I'm going to write "umbrella" on my chart.

Draw a little picture.

And I'm going to guess -- This is bigger than my parrot.

I'm going to say...5.

Object three is... a lasagna noodle.

Hmm.

Okay.

I'm going to put that over here as "lasagna."

I'm gonna draw a little noodle.

And I'm going to guess -- this is somewhere in between -- so, maybe...7?

Okay.

Now, my last object... ...is a pool toy!

I'm going to write "pool toy" in my prediction column.

Draw a little picture.

And this one's pretty big, so I think maybe...2?

Alright.

I've made all my predictions.

Let's test it out.

I've laid out my tape measure on the ground so that I can clearly see how many of each object it takes to line up with my height.

And I marked my height right here at 5'9" with a piece of masking tape so it's easy to see.

Let's start with object number one -- the parrot.

To measure, I'm going to start right here at the bottom, at zero, and I'm just going to line my pair parrot up here.

And I'm going to see he's about 7 inches.

I'm going to put a finger here and then I'm just going to see how many times it takes to lay my parrot down until it matches my height.

Let's go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine!

Nine parrots.

Object number two -- the umbrella.

My umbrella is about 17 inches.

One, two, three, four, and just a little teensy bit.

Object number three -- lasagna!

My lasagna noodle is about 10 inches.

One, two, three, four, five, six... Mmm, 6 1/2, I'd say.

And our last object, object number four -- the pool toy.

Whew, this one is... Line it up.

♪♪ It looks like it's about 32 inches.

One... Whew!

♪♪ Oh!

Two!

Looking at our predictions, I think we did a pretty good job.

We were only off by one, and we even got one of them exactly right -- our pool toy.

We thought it would be two, and it was almost exactly two.

You can play this at home, too.

If you have a tape measure, you can measure yourself like I did, or you can use a ruler, laying it end to end like we did with our objects.

And even if you don't have something to measure yourself with, you can just use a really long piece of string and put a piece of tape or make a mark when it reaches your height, then you'll know to match that up to as many objects as you can.

See how many it takes to match your height.

See you next time.

Bye!

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Additional funding was provided by the Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York.

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