- Okay.

Let's see, I've got straws, I got a notebook journal that's broken, I got some milk jug lids, some bottle caps, a fishing bobber.

Okay, and then the paper, that leftover paper's over there, and I got the...yep, there, okay.

Oh man!

Friends, I can't wait to create something with what I've got here.

Oh man, Oh man.

I love recycled art!

(upbeat music) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through, ♪ ♪ and you can do it too.

♪ ♪ Think of words, and of rhymes ♪ ♪ and make Wimages, ♪ ♪ please do.

♪ ♪ A doo, doo, bop a doyo ♪ ♪ A doo, dop, dayu, badu ♪ (clapping) - Oh man.

Do you like to build stuff out of things that you find?

Things that you can reuse?

Oh man, Recycling's good.

Reuse is even better, reducing, oh man.

we got lots of ours.

Okay, check this out.

Ready?

♪ Found a peanut, found a peanut, ♪ ♪ found a peanut just now.

♪ ♪ Just now I found a peanut, ♪ ♪ found a peanut just now.

♪ (laughing) That's how the song typically starts.

But look what I did to the face.

(laughing) Watch this.

♪ Found a peanut, found a peanut, ♪ ♪ found a peanut just now.

♪ ♪ Just now I found a peanut, ♪ ♪ Found a peanut and made this guy.

♪ (laughing) It's a peanut puppet!

Okay, so share with us a word that starts with R. Reuse, reduce, recycle.

That's what inspired it.

So pick any word that starts with R, and this little puppet.

We'll see.

Let's see a word that starts with R... Rigatoni?

That's a good type of food to eat.

Okay, ♪ Found a peanut, found a peanut, ♪ ♪ found a peanut just now.

♪ ♪ Just now I found a peanut, ♪ ♪ and he had rigatoni for lunch.

♪ (laughing) - Was it delicious?

- Yes, it was very good.

(laughing) - Ooh, run, okay.

♪ He began to run, he began to run, ♪ ♪ he began to run just now.

♪ ♪ Just now he began to run, ♪ ♪ he began to run just now.

♪ (laughing) - Where are you going?

- I don't know, but the... [Inaudible 2:17.51] (laughing) - Okay, next word that starts with R. Maybe that'll have to, oh, rebound!

(laughing) - Oh, don't donate me.

- Sorry.

Okay.

♪ He played basketball, he played basketball, ♪ ♪ he played basketball just now.

♪ ♪ Just now he played basketball, ♪ ♪ and got a rebound, and won the game.

♪ (laughing) He ran all the way to the court, and he got the rebound just in time.

And then, okay.

Let's see, we gotta see.

Where does he go after the, after the basketball game?

We need more words with R. How about, let's see.

Oh, robot.

(laughing) I love that word!

Okay, ready?

Yeah.

♪ After the game, after the game, ♪ ♪ after the game just now.

♪ ♪ Just now after the game, ♪ ♪ the peanut hung out with a robot.

♪ (laughing) That's me!

Oh, and then remember.

Okay, good.

Thanks Joe.

♪ We remembered, we remembered, ♪ ♪ We remember just now.

♪ ♪Just now we remembered, ♪ ♪ we remembered... ♪ What did we...a rainbow!

(laughing) Thanks Siblee, that was just in time.

- You're welcome.

(laughing) Okay, so we remembered a rainbow, and we went to the end of the rainbow, to reset all those perfect color, to reset our clocks because of the time change.

(laughing) (alarm clock ringing) Whew, is that the end of the story?

Yeah, the time change, we're, you know, wait, wait a minute, Is it, is it the time to change the clocks?

Oh no!

We changed it on the wrong day!

Oh boy.

- Oh no, now we're going to be early for everything.

- Well that could be, that could be okay.

- But I don't want to sit around and wait for an hour.

- Oh yeah.

I guess this, I will tell you what friends, if you can finish the song later, cause we're stuck at the end of a rainbow, and we've changed our clocks at the wrong time.

(laughing) Well, friends let's go see what Moby's got to say today.

(upbeat music) - Recycled art is a craft, or something you make from things that were going to be thrown away.

Like cans, boxes, tires, shoes, toys you don't use anymore.

(laughing) Check this out.

I made this, (laughing) out of some stuff I didn't need anymore.

(laughing) It's so cool.

What can you make from some things you don't use anymore?

Ha!

Puppet show.

Doop, doop, boop, hey yo!

(laughing) (upbeat music) - Oh man, peanut.

Well, we gotta give you a name.

Maybe we'll give you a name later.

That was so cool, the puppet that Moby made.

Well friends, it's time for today's three sentence story.

Beginning.

Middle.

End.

And the three words come from, you!

So, let's write a story.

In the first sentence we'll set the scene.

In the second sentence there is a problem.

- Oh, no.

(laughing) - Little peanut friend said that.

Thanks.

- You're welcome.

- Okay, so, and then in the third sentence, there is a solution.

Will you sing it?

♪ - Solution.

♪ (laughing) - I gotta have you on the show more often friend.

- Yeah.

- Okay, so in the first sentence, we'll set the scene.

What word will it be that starts things off?

Will our story be silly?

Will it be adventure?

Ooh, a mystery.

We haven't had a mystery in quite a while.

Should we do a mystery?

- You decide.

- Okay.

I think it might depend on the words, it all depends on the words.

You're not getting dizzy, are you?

- No, I'm okay.

But just try not to move my arms too much.

(laughing) - Yeah.

Okay, I'll let you sit there.

- Thanks.

- All right, how do we start our story?

Oh, paper!

(laughing) Perfect, paper, the story begins with paper.

My friend, Peanut and I, sat down with a leftover piece of paper to paint a rainbow.

(laughing) I used the word rainbow from the song, and then this piece of paper, you know how when you print something on a printer and it prints on one side, and then you can recycle the paper, or you can reuse it and do somethin with the back of it.

So, we've got a reused piece of paper, and we drew a rainbow on it.

Peanut, my peanut friend and I.

Maybe we'll come up with a name.

Oh, ghost!

(laughing) - Oh, my.

- Yeah, right.

Okay, so there's a ghost causing the problem.

Okay.

Thanks Keller.

From the top.

My friend peanut and I sat down with a piece of paper.

Oh the leftover piece of paper and began to draw a rainbow.

We heard strange noises and it sounded like a ghost was appearing out of a bottle cap.

(laughing) Gee, I got some fun things on my desk here.

And I'm gonna pretend that there's a ghost from a bottle cap.

Ooh, I could get a piece of tissue, or don't, don't use leftover tissue though.

That's, yeah, that's, there's, there's limits here.

(laughing) - Yes, there are.

- Okay.

But let's make a ghost out of a, a little bottle, or jar, or a little something.

And this ghost is making noises, and, oh no, peanut and I are scared!

(ghost noises) - Hey, you kind of sound like the ghost.

- Woo.

- That sounds like a ghost too.

Okay, we need a solution friends.

We need, we feel scared.

How do we feel less scared?

What word could it be?

Peanut, do you have an idea?

- Um, well, it could be, potato chip?

(laughing) - Potato chip?

That would make us feel better, I guess.

Friends, what do you think?

We're gonna think of some possibilities.

What else?

- Guacamole?

- Oh, I love guacamole, we did a show about guacamole.

Yeah.

Let's see, our theme is recycled art.

How about wire?

- Oh yeah.

- Wire, we got some wire from a journal there.

- Okay.

- Okay, the third word friends, is wire.

Okay, from the top.

My friend peanut and I sat down with a reused piece of paper, and began to draw a rainbow.

We suddenly heard noises, and it looked like a ghost was trying to scare us.

I quickly built a robot.

That was one of the words earlier too.

I quickly built a robot out of some wire, and the wire robot said, (robot noises) which translated means, scary ghost, don't scare us.

(laughing) - Be careful not to eat me, Wimee.

- Oh yeah, sorry.

Okay.

So friends, we got our words: paper, ghost, wire.

(laughing) Friends, we're gonna go hang out with Michael in the Grand Rapids Wimage Lab to see what he's got goin for today's Wimage.

Hey Michael, how you doin today?

- Hello, Wimee.

Hello, Peanut.

Wimee, Peanut, Peanut sounds so cute.

- He is so cute, right?

(laughing) - Thank you, Michael.

(laughing) - You welcome.

So, let me show you what we've got, and of course we can always come back, and our friends who are watchin, can help us add on to the Wimage.

So I'm using the, the iPad, and so friends, you can continue to create your own Wimage, but let's see what we created thus far.

(thinking noises) - I'm lookin at all the details.

- I know.

So the ghost, we created the ghost out of a baseball cap, and we've got Wimee, he's got peanuts cause peanuts make him happy, and of course, he's got his friend Peanut today.

And we also added some wheels.

- Oh!

- We added wheels to Wimee's legs, so Wimee can wheel away.

(laughing) - That sounds fun!

Oh, let's have the wheels, those wheels are from a broken bike, right?

- Yes.

Yes.

So we were able to recycle the tires from a bike, and we used them to put on Wimee, so that Wimee can ride away sometimes.

(laughing) - I love it.

I see the rainbow.

- Yes - Or what about, okay, so the, the ghost was making us a little scared, and so we made a robot out of wire.

- Mm hmm.

- Hmm, so I see the jar.

Tell me more about the jar.

- So the jar's peanut butter, because we've got a special guest that we're gonna be introducing today.

And so, this is a little message, pay attention to the upcoming segment.

- Gettin prepared, I love it!

So, all right, now, Michael, we're gonna check back with you later, and find three things that you're gonna change, right?

- I'm gonna change three things.

- So look at the ghost, the hat, the peanuts, the jar, the rainbow, nice.

All right, it's a green background, okay.

We'll see you later Michael, when we check back.

Sounds good.

So, friends, we get to find out how to say today's words in Spanish.

For today's Language Explorers, Miss Sara is here to share the words with us.

(laughing) Hi, Miss Sara!

- Hi Wimee, how are you?

- Good, did you see peanut?

- Hello, Miss Sara.

- I did see Peanut, he's so fun.

I like peanuts.

All right, I have the three words over here.

So, the first one was paper and I did that.

I did that, did you see me?

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you did.

(laughing) So, the first one is paper, and it's really similar in Spanish.

- Okay.

- Paper is papel.

- Papel.

- Papel.

- Papel.

- Yeah, so there's our paper right there.

- They both have two letter Ps.

- That's right, it's very, very similar.

- Paper.

Papel.

- Oh, the only difference is the L instead of an R. - Exactly.

Paper.

Papel.

It pronounced a little bit different, but yeah, it's very cool.

- Sounds cool.

- So the second word, was the word ghost.

Very appropriate for this month.

And there was actually a cartoon named ghost in Spanish.

And I don't know if you know it and recognize it, but fantasma.

- Ooh, fantasma.

- Fantasma, ghost, fantasma.

(ghost noise) - Fantasma.

I like your drawing.

- The third one is, thank you, third one is wire.

Wire.

- Woo.

- Alambre.

- Alambre.

- But since we're talking about, you know, recycling things, I thought, well, let's just take this, this alambre, and I make it, I'm gonna make it a little character, a little character.

So it's a little wire.

A little wired is alambrito - Alambrito.

He became a little personnel, person there, and now, little wire, when you put -ito, - ito in Spanish, that will make it small.

For example, my name is Sarah.

If you put Sarita, that means I'm a little Sarah.

So, Alambrito, that's his name.

Mr. Alambrito.

- I love it.

I love it.

Hey, my name, Wimee, how would you say my name, with, as a little.

- Wimito.

(laughing) - I love that.

That's what I thought.

Wimito.

- Let me tell you, - Oh, what about, - Yeah, let me tell you this, in my country, in Ecuador, we, we, I don't know why, but we, we call everything, I think, I guess we're trying to be loving, and part of being loving is calling things in, in, in like they were little.

So we always call each other with -ito.

So Papito, Mamita, casita, eh, [Foreign Language 14.24.07] you know, we call, we talk like that, in, in my country.

So it's very, very cultural, and there's other countries in South America that don't do it.

But in Ecuador, that's very, very cultural.

We say, - I like it.

- Yeah, (laughing) isn't it funny.

Isn't it funny, Wimito?

(laughing) - Ah, yeah.

- So those are your words for today.

- I love it.

I love it.

Thank you so much Miss Sara.

Bye bye.

(laughing) Oh, I wonder how we say little peanut?

Hmm, I'll research that.

Sara's already off on the road.

She's not messing around, that's fun.

Thanks Sarah.

Okay.

Friends.

Guess what?

Today, we have a very special edition with our friend Matt McGee, to lead us in today's Explore and Create.

Check this out.

Oh man, it's so cool.

Wait, you till see what he makes.

It's so awesome!

Oh, I think maybe just, boom, my head just exploded!

(upbeat music) - Hi, Winnie and friends.

My name is Matt McGee, and I'm a puppet and props maker.

I like to make things out of stuff that most people throw away.

Today, I'm gonna show you how you can make your very own robot out of nothing more than a peanut butter container, and other things you might have lying around the house right now.

For this project, you'll need an empty, cleaned out, plastic, peanut butter container, or any kind of plastic jar with a good lid.

Then I use some craft foam, which you can find at many hobby and craft stores.

Construction paper of different colors can come in handy, and then you'll need a paint mixing stick, or something hard to use for the handle on your robot.

Now, I like to collect bottle caps and things to use for all the little parts and pieces of my robot.

As well as, some plastic utensils, other things we'll need are: some scissors, a permanent marker, some thread, and then a hot glue gun, but be careful.

You might need some adult supervision with this cause it is dangerous.

Now we have all these things, let's get started.

First, we need to color the inside of our jar.

Now the quickest way to do this, is it take some color construction paper, and cut it down to fit inside.

- [Wimee] Ha ha.

- Next.

We'll take our craft foam, and using any color you want, cut a nice, long strip to go around the top of the jar and it will become the bottom jaw of our robots mouth.

- [Wimee] Blah, blah, blah.

- This next part is just a design.

You can make this bottom jaw have rivets or bolts, but I thought I had colored in, and make it look like that safety tape that goes around machines and other mechanical devices.

Next, take your thread.

Or like, I like to use my braided cord, and cut a length a little longer than the stick that you're gonna use.

Now tie it a couple of times at the end to make one really big knot.

Take that knot and glue it to one section of the lid at the knot on the bottom side.

Like, so.

Take some of that foam and cut two little rectangles, glue them together, so they create a thicker little rectangle, and glue it over that string.

This tab will be the hinge to make our robot talk.

Next, we'll take that jar, and carefully using the hot glue, glue our strip of foam all the way around it.

When that's done, we'll put a little hot glue over the seam of the top of the container and glue that tab from our lid to the body of the container.

And once it cools, now, you will have a talking, colorful, peanut butter jar.

Wait, what?

We gotta make it look more like a robot now.

So using our bottle caps and other nick knacks, we'll glue them on to make eyes.

I like to use two different sizes because it looks silly.

And then we can use some other caps, which I use for shoulders.

These are from milk jugs, whoda thought, right?

They become the shoulders.

And then you can take your plastic utensils that you saved up and you've carefully, using scissors, cut off the ends, and glue them to these shoulders to make a little arms.

Now, the rest of this is just fun designs, whatever you wanna do.

Next, take your paint stick or whatever stick you're planning to use, and glue it to the back of your jar.

This will be your handle and controller for your robot puppet.

Once the glue is solid, hold onto the bottom of the handle, and make a mark at the top of your hand.

Now using the back end of one of those plastic utensils, cut two rectangles of foam, and glue it to either side of one end of that plastic piece with tabs left at the bottom.

Now fold those tabs open, and glue it to the mark you just made on the handle.

This will now be the trigger to make your robot's mouth move.

To make it all work, take the other end of your string, and tie it around the middle of your trigger.

Not too tight or not too loose.

The trigger should stay perpendicular to the handle.

Once you feel it's in the right spot, carefully hot glue it into place.

Once it cools, it's ready for action.

When the trigger goes down, the lid goes up.

Now you could totally be done at this point.

Or if you're like me, you might wanna make it even more awesome.

So this is where the rest of those bottle caps come in handy.

You can make wheels, or what I'm gonna do is give him some feet.

But, all of this is completely optional.

It's up to you when it's done.

But when you're ready for it to be done, you'll have your very own talking robot.

So there you go.

That's how you make a robot out of nothing more than an empty peanut butter jar, and some other stuff you probably have lying around the house right now.

Because it's made out of a peanut butter jar, I call him PB bot.

I am PB bot.

B,b,b,b,b.

(upbeat music) (laughing) - That is so cool.

Oh man.

Oh man.

PB bot's gonna be joining the crew pretty soon.

Oh, what do you think, Peanut?

- I think it's lovely.

(laughing) - Man, Matt McGee, thanks so much for today's Explore and Create.

Friends, we love jokes.

It's time for today's, laughing with Keller.

- [Group] Hurray!

- How do you inspire an artist?

- Hmm.

- Easel-ly.

(laughing) - Easel-ly.

Easel.

That's a good one!

I love it!

Woo!

Friends, I'm gonna call Michael back with what three things have changed in the Wimage design in the lab.

Oh, no!

Oh, no!

Michael, did you see what happened?

- Oh, he, he had to go.

- Peanito, oh no, are you okay?

- [Peanut] I fell okay.

- Okay, oh, oh, okay, he's okay.

- We lost, okay.

Luckily he landed on his feet?

Does he have feet?

Uh oh, then yeah, we may need to check on him.

Okay.

So... - [Peanut] I'm just, I'm just fine, I'm just, I'm okay.

- [Michael] Okay, I'll show you the Wimage, and you guys have to tell me what three things changed.

- [Wimee] Alright, I see.

Okay, friends at home, watch with us here.

I notice that the ghost had a hat, and now I have a hat.

- [Michael] Yes, the ghost wanted to share a hat.

- [Wimee] Nice.

- [Michael] He had extra hats.

- [Wimee] Okay.

Pull it back a little bit.

A little bit higher, right?

Okay.

I see my wheel.

Oh, the number of rainbows.

It used to be one, now it's 1, 2, 3.

- [Michael] Ding, ding, ding!

I think that's it.

- [Wimee] Well, no, I think the recycle was that the only, was that, wait, that was two changes, right?

- [Michael] That was, okay yes.

The rainbows.

- [Wimee] Did those count as two things or one thing.

- [Michael] No, no.

The rainbows count is one thing.

So there's one more thing.

- [Wimee] Hats, friends at homes does anybody see it?

The recycle symbols, I think was it one symbol, And now it's two?

- [Michael] No, they were above Wimee's head.

- [Wimee] Oh, did you change where they are?

They were above my head, and now they're on each side of me.

- [Michael] Yes.

- [Wimee] Ah, ha, nice.

We did it!

We did it!

- Those are the three things, and with the Wimage app we can do so many things.

I can just tap on Wimee, I can move Wimee.

Are you guys able to see that?

- Yup.

I'm movin.

- Yup.

And so, yes, you can create, and then you can go back and recreate.

- I love it.

I love it.

Well, Hey Michael, you know, speaking of screen time, it's time for Minute with Michael!

(upbeat music) - So, how's Mr. Peanito doing?

- Oh, I, let me check.

Hey Peanito, - I found a really nice, little book to read down here, it's about squash.

- Oh wait, he found a book about squash.

- Yeah, like farming.

- Yeah, squash, and tomatoes, and green peppers, and squash is my favorite.

That's what I'm reading right now.

- Oh, awesome.

- Yeah - Well, thank you.

Maybe next time you're on the show you can share a favorite recipe.

- What, what do you, what do you think?

- [Peanut] Okay.

(laughing) - great.

Alright, so with all that being said, it's time friends for Find it Fast!

(upbeat music) Alright friends, Find it Fast.

Something that starts with R, something shaped like a triangle, and something you can reuse.

Reuse starts with R. So does recycle, so does reduce, what else starts with R?

Triangles, I love triangles.

So, I went with triangles today.

It's fun to build stuff out of scrap pieces of paper.

Hey, Kelaine, runnin the show backstage, what did you find?

- I found a robot.

It was, we used to, we gave these away one year at the library, - I remember.

- for the reading.

And then I also, I wasn't on tech talk today, but that's okay I brought my hat, which is sort of shaped like the triangle, right?

- Oh yeah, I see your point, yeah.

- And something that we, what was the last one?

- Something to reuse.

- Reuse.

Oh, well, no, yeah.

How about I reuse paperclips.

- Yeah, you can use that all the time.

- Sorry, what is this?

- A clothespin.

- Clothespin.

Thank you.

- Yeah, you can reuse that to hang clothes, to close a bag of chips, you can use it to hold your hair up in a ponytail.

You could reuse the paperclip to, I guess, clip some paper together.

Wait, no, I said paperclip, oh no.

It's a clothespin.

Oh my goodness.

I got all mixed up.

All right, let's see, I wonder if Michael's found something, something that starts with R, something shaped like a triangle.

What you got, Michael?

- I found a robot.

I found Wimee is holding up a triangle.

And.

And.

After you're done, you can give Wimee to a friend.

- Ah, indeed, I love it!

Man, I just love spreading the love!

Thanks friends for Finding it Fast.

You can play that game anytime too.

See what you find.

Something that starts with R, something triangle, something you reuse, and then change the words.

Mix it up.

Set your timer, pick a song.

All kinds of options.

Well, friends, we did it!

Another fun episode of Wimee's Words.

All right.

I guess we should roll the credits now, right?

- Yeah.

Well, we'll dance out as well.

- I forgot, I forgot!

- We'll just do a wave.

Let's just do the wave.

- Okay.

- And, we're gone.

Bye everybody.

- Bye friends.

- [Announcer] Wimee's Words is brought to you by PNC Grow Up Great, Funterra by Smart, Meijer, and with additional support from these great partners.

(upbeat music) (clapping)