♪♪ -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" ♪♪ ♪♪ Hello?

Is someone there?

♪♪ Hello?

Oh!

Well... [ Clears throat ] ...hello there.

I'm sorry.

And you are?

And you're looking for?

Camp?

What do you say now?

Jack?

No.

No one here by that name.

Hmm.

This must be for me.

"Dear mister, I'm expecting a few thousand campers to arrive shortly, but I had to run to pick up my laundry."

Uh... "Will you please let them in and send them off to their first activity?

I'll be back in a jiffy.

Thanks, Zach."

Well, that doesn't seem very responsible.

Kids today.

Oh, wait, there's more.

P.S., please let them know that today is Disguise Day on "Camp TV."

Today is Disguise Day on "Camp TV."

Okay, off to your first activity.

Go on.

-Ready for some math that counts?

Count On.

[ Clock ticking ] ♪♪ [ Bell rings ] ♪♪ -♪ It's cool you got to face a whole bunch of shapes ♪ ♪ That I think you ought to know ♪ ♪ So sit back, relax, I'mma teach you some facts ♪ ♪ From a circle to a rectangle ♪ ♪ I'm gonna start with the sides ♪ ♪ And you can sing if you like ♪ ♪ But just trust me and give it a try ♪ ♪ 'Cause once you start seeing your shapes ♪ ♪ You're gonna have what it takes ♪ ♪ No more leaving with closed eyes ♪ ♪ I got 'em singin' ♪ ♪ First, try that triangle ♪ ♪ Three sides and three angles, alright ♪ ♪ Here, three like a tricycle's wheels ♪ ♪ Comes off too easy, loud and clear ♪ ♪ Go next, quadrilateral ♪ ♪ Four sides and four angles all for me ♪ ♪ Rectangle, rhombus ♪ ♪ Trapezoids, and the S-Q-U-A-R-E ♪ -♪ Mm-hmm ♪ -♪ I'm singing all the shapes for you ♪ ♪ Till you ace all your tests in school ♪ ♪ If you still kind of get confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ I'm gonna sing off the shapes to you ♪ ♪ Till you ace all your tests in school ♪ ♪ And if you still find yourself just a little confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ -♪ Ooh-why, ooh-why, ooh-why, ooh-why ♪ -♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ -♪ Ooh-why, ooh-why, ooh-why, ooh-why ♪ -♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ -♪ Ooh-why, ooh-why, ooh-why, ooh-why ♪ -♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ And if you still find yourself just a little confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ I don't know if you heard, but the start of the word ♪ ♪ Could tell a lot about its shape ♪ ♪ Like "tri," at its core, means it's three like the horns ♪ ♪ Poking out a Triceratops' face ♪ ♪ Mm-hmm ♪ ♪ Quad is four quadruplets born ♪ ♪ Penta means five next ♪ ♪ Then it's six for hexa and seven for hepta ♪ ♪ Octopus count his arms as eight ♪ ♪ Let's start with that pentagon ♪ ♪ Five sides and five angles is all I see ♪ ♪ Hexagon next, and he's got ♪ ♪ Six sides and angles all for me ♪ ♪ Next, let's go heptagon ♪ ♪ She's got seven sides and angles ♪ ♪ Then we go to Octagon next ♪ ♪ Eight sides and angles, know him best ♪ ♪ I'm singing all the shapes for you ♪ ♪ Till you ace all your tests in school ♪ ♪ If you still kind of get confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ I'm gonna sing off the shapes to you ♪ ♪ Till you ace all your tests in school ♪ ♪ And if you still find yourself just a little confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ Five sides on the pentagon-gon ♪ ♪ Six sides on the hexagon-gon ♪ ♪ Seven on the heptagon-gon ♪ ♪ Eight sides on the octagon-gon ♪ ♪ Nine sides on the nonagon-gon ♪ ♪ 10 sides on the decagon-gon ♪ ♪ 11 on the hendecagon-gon ♪ ♪ Come on, everybody, at the song on the gong, man ♪ [ Gong rings ] -♪ I'm singing all the shapes for you ♪ ♪ Till you ace all your tests in school ♪ ♪ If you still kind of get confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ I'm gonna sing off the shapes to you ♪ ♪ Till you ace all your tests in school ♪ ♪ And if you still find yourself just a little confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ ♪ And if you still find yourself just a little confused ♪ ♪ Count the sides and the angles ♪ -How long have I been asleep?

-Like four days.

-Not again!

♪♪ -Arts and crafts?

Yes, please.

Let's Get Artsy.

♪♪ ♪♪ -Hi, everyone.

My name is Sonia Kim, and I am a teaching artist for BRIC.

For this activity, all we're going to need is a piece of paper.

It doesn't have to be a full sheet of paper.

It can be just a scrap of a paper bag or anything like that.

We also need some drawing materials, such as colored pencils or markers or crayons.

And we're going to need something to randomize numbers.

So I'm going to use a die.

You can just ask people for two different numbers or you could use the dice app.

It doesn't really matter.

It -- Just a way to get numbers randomly would be great.

Alright, and, so, what I'm going to do is that I'm going to roll my dice twice, and it's going to help us figure out how many times I'm going to fold this piece of paper randomly.

So, let's get started.

I'm going to roll the die once.

And I got the number 1.

And -- ooh!

-- the second time, it's the number 6.

So I have 7.

So I'm going to add those two together and make 7.

And then I'm going to start by folding my paper seven times.

Now, as I'm folding, I am being really random about it.

I'm turning it around and I'm making sure I'm not going in the same direction each time.

So, I'm just going to continue until I fold out seven.

Doesn't have to be perfect.

It's nice to have crisp, clean lines, however, just for the next step.

So, I did seven.

As you can see, the shapes on my paper are actually quite large, and that's good.

And you can leave this here, but for me, I am really bored, so I want more.

So I'm going to roll the dice twice again.

So, 10 more times.

I'm going to fold 10 more times, so for a grand total of 17.

And, again, you don't have to fold this many times.

The more you fold, the more you're going to have to color.

And, remember, I'm not folding over the same thing twice.

I'm doing a good job of making it a crisp and clean line.

And here we go.

So, after I finish folding, I'm going to roll the dice again, and that's going to tell me how many colors I'm going to use in order to color each of the individual shapes that I've made with my folds.

And I'm going to use whatever I have to color it in.

I have an assortment of colors here and materials.

So, I'm going to roll the dice, and I get the number 6.

So I'm going to pick out six of those colors to work with.

And there we go.

So, once I have pulled out all the colors that I want to use -- And, remember, it doesn't matter if it's a marker, a crayon, or a colored pencil, or anything else -- paints maybe even.

I'm just going to start and begin by coloring in the shapes that I created with my folds.

I'm going to continue doing this for my whole page, because I want to fill in the whole thing.

As you can see, I've done it with other materials and with only one color at a time.

You can work with shading.

You don't have to fill in the whole page.

You can even work smaller, which is kind of fun.

It gives it a real quilted sort of look to it.

This is an exercise in letting go of control and it's an exercise in color.

So I hope you guys have fun.

-A little birdie told me it's time to go wild.

-Hello.

I'm Robyn.

-And I'm Adrian.

And when we're not on location, we live here in South Africa's Limpopo Province.

We're very fortunate that our home backs onto several hundred hectares of African bushveld so we don't have to go very far to connect with nature.

In fact, a lot of the time, nature comes to us.

-There's one special wild family we'd like you to meet, but they're a little bit shy.

So Adrian's going to set up some remote cameras so that we can introduce them to you.

-They're nocturnal, so we'll have to wait for sunset before they'll come out.

This is the roof outside our office, where they live.

I hear one coming.

Meet the bush babies, also known around these parts as nagapies, which means "little night monkeys."

They're insatiably curious little primates and will investigate anything new in their environment, like our cameras.

-Those big, round eyes help them see in the dark.

But they can't move them, so, instead, they swivel their heads.

The family's just waking up.

Even though they normally sleep in tree hollows, we've had generations of this family as tenants for over a decade.

These are probably related females and their offspring.

Like most primates, their day begins with a bit of grooming.

-They're almost ready to set off to forage.

But first, they must check out their surroundings.

They are smaller than my fist, and the African night is full of dangerous predators, like genets and owls.

It looks like it's safe.

Just to be sure.

-These tiny creatures travel a mile or two every night, mostly feeding on insects and tree gum.

Scientists estimate they visit up to 500 trees on their nightly rounds.

The most astonishing thing when you first see bush babies in the wild is their gobsmacking leaps.

-They can clear gaps of up to 16 feet, making them perfectly adapted for life in the woodlands around our house.

And as the little night monkeys go to work, the big day monkeys go home.

-You took the words right out of my mouth.

Write On.

-Have we started?

Okay.

[ Clears throat ] This story comes to us from a fifth grader named Kat Forrest.

And it is called "Cat Forest"!

How do you think they came up with that?

It's very creative.

Must have just been off the top of their head.

Start the story.

Okay.

[ Clears throat ] Somewhere, hidden far from humanity, cars, and New Jersey, there was a forest, not a wood.

And in that forest lived Fluffy the Cat.

Let's start at the very beginning.

The beginning.

Hey, what's up?

I'm Fluffy.

I'm a cat and I'm just chillin' at my human's house.

I feel like it should be lunchtime, but I'm a cat.

I can't read clocks or anything.

I hope my human will come soon with those delicious ribs.

Oh, human!

Yes?

Human, can you bring me some of those delicious ribs?

-Oh, sure.

I can bring you some of the half-eaten ribs in my beautiful, dexterous human hands.

Just give me one second.

Hello?

Oh, hi!

[ Laughs ] Could you take any longer?

So Fluffy waited... Oh, just filing my taxes.

...and waited...

I know.

I hate going to the gym.

...and waited.

And it was in my purse the whole time.

[ Laughs ] His mouth felt ever so dry.

Open!

Open!

Open!

Fine.

I'll do it myself.

Here I go.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Stop, Fluffy, stop!

But, oh, Fluffy didn't care.

I smell them, the ribs!

So Fluffy ran to the wood.

Sorry.

Forest.

Chasing down those ribs.

So...tired.

[ Snoring, whistling ] Welcome, new friend.

Huh?

You're Lord Fluffy, right?

I -- Uh...what, uh... Lord Fluffy, super-awesome ruler?

Oh!

Well, in that case, yes.

Well, welcome to your kingdom, Lord Fluffy, Cat Forest.

Come on.

We got to show you around.

Cool!

And that's where he is now, still leading cats to destiny.

I never did get those ribs, though.

The end!

-Hi.

So, today is Disguise Day on "Camp TV."

So to get in the spirit... ♪♪ ♪♪ Care to join me?

Grab a silly hat, a pair of sunglasses, or an old Halloween costume, basically anything that makes you look less like you.

Just for fun, just for now.

Cool!

You look great.

Another way you could disguise yourself?

Camouflage.

In fact, there are some animals that are masters at it.

They can blend into the background like no one's business.

For example, this octopus.

Now you see me.

Now you don't.

Ooh!

Or check out this chameleon.

Magic?

Nope.

Just camouflage.

Pretty cool, huh?

Nature is truly amazing.

See you after your next activity.

At least I think it will be you.

A little birdie told me it's time to go wild.

-Hi.

My name is Joe Pontecorvo.

My wife and I are wildlife filmmakers.

And when we're not in the field, this is our home here in Washington state.

But, you know, you don't need to be a professional filmmaker to capture some of the hidden wonders of nature that are all around you.

I'll show you what I mean.

Trail cameras are a great way to find hidden wildlife.

The trick is knowing where to put it.

In general, I look for any kind of animal signs, such as scats or a well-worn trail, like this one.

Chances are, if one animal uses it, others will, as well.

Sometimes, capturing wildlife takes a little time.

So try leaving your trail cameras out for a week or so.

Alright, let's see if we got anything.

Opening up a trail-camera card is kind of like opening up a Christmas present.

You never know what you're going to get.

Well, here's a coyote.

Coyotes really are one of my favorite animals.

They're the most successful large predator in North America.

And despite a brutal campaign of extermination, not only have they survived, they've thrived and expanded their range across the United States.

Today, they're found in every state but Hawaii.

We keep our trail cameras up all year round, and we've discovered an incredible amount of wildlife we never knew we had.

This bobcat's a resident, and you see him frequently on this same trail.

And there he is carrying a rabbit, I think.

Not all wildlife is secretive, like this black bear.

He regularly visits our apple tree every summer and usually consumes most of our apples.

But most surprising were these elk that regularly visit our backyard.

Now, elk are remarkably adaptable animals, but they're also a migratory species.

And we believe one of the reasons they're here is because we live up against a protected area.

And these green spaces, such as city parks or even this utility line, they become critical corridors for wildlife to move.

So even here, an hour outside of Seattle, you have an enormous amount of wildlife transiting through our backyard.

Some of the natural world remains hidden because animals are elusive, and some of the natural world remains hidden because it unfolds at a different speed.

And as filmmakers, one of the things we're always trying to do is capture those hidden events, whether it's using high-speed cameras to capture slow-motion or time-lapse photography to capture the passing of a day or the opening of a flower.

And, actually, right here in your back pocket, you have a pretty powerful tool that can do basically both those things.

Most camera phones have slow-motion features and time lapse, and if you take the time to set it up, you'd be surprised at all the things you can uncover.

I think what I love most about this kind of photography is it reveals a hidden half of nature that you might not normally see in a simple stroll through the woods or even in your own backyard.

♪♪ -[ British accent ] Hello, Agent.

Shh!

Please keep your voices down.

I'm here on a mission to find someone named... uh, named... ♪♪ Oh, yeah.

Zach.

He claims to be your head "camp counselor."

Let's see if we can find him, shall we?

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Hmm.

This is going to be harder than I thought it would be.

♪♪ Welcome back.

You know, people have found ways to disguise themselves even in their writing.

Let me explain.

There's something called sympathetic stain, also known as security ink.

Or you might know it even better as invisible ink.

It's when you use what looks like an invisible substance to write a message and then another substance called a reagent to reveal the hidden message.

In fact, George Washington, the first President of the United States, used it to send secret messages during the Revolutionary War.

These secret messages were placed between the lines of innocent-enough-looking letters, and when treated with heat or another chemical substance, a message revealed itself.

You just had to know to look for it.

Should we give it a try?

You will need some paper, paper towels, a small paintbrush or cotton swab, some baking soda, rubbing alcohol, and a spice called turmeric, and also some measuring cups and spoons.

Please ask an adult to help you find these ingredients and also for a helping hand throughout.

To make the invisible ink, mix together a 1/2 cup of water and 1 tablespoon of baking soda.

Use a small paintbrush or cotton swab and write your secret message on a piece of paper.

While it's drying, combine the second mixture, made up of 1/2 a cup of rubbing alcohol and 1 teaspoon of turmeric.

Okay, listen up.

This is very important.

Before you move forward, put some paper towels down.

Why?

Because turmeric stains anything that it touches, which is exactly the point.

Using a small paintbrush, paint the sheet of paper with the reagent, and your secret message is revealed.

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Additional funding was provided by Joan Ganz Cooney.

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