today I'm zoom there you go it's a
little shadow puppet pretty cute we're
also going to show you how to make a
theatre this generation attic
electricity makes huge sparks they say
slow and steady wins the race and you're
15 seconds left the crowd cheered as a
tourist reach the finish line
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sentence by Nathan M Crystal Beach and
Theriot Canada Nathan says the funny
part about this game is that the cotton
ba*ls are so light you can't tell
whether or not you have any on your
spoon okay guys clover transfer is the
most cotton ba*ls in 30 seconds wins
okay Jessica
on your mark I'm gonna doesn't know
where the ba*ls are okay okay on your
mark get set go okay you can only use
one hand what am i he's only using one
hand the other hands on one of them are
touching the ball slow they say slow and
steady wins the race and you have 15
seconds left
come on Lisa one other time Kenny just
pick up none yeah oh good job you just
whoa whoa I don't think we should tell
her well good job Kenny you go and he's
doing really well
you like swamp okay stop oh good job
guys we look yep whoo all right LOC huh
Kenny has gotten one two three well
you're gonna mix my five six seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve cards Oh
one two three four five six seven eight
nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
good job job yeah oh my gosh everything
you were great yeah but I can't make out
I try to start okay I'll be the timer
hey go Kenny
dildo this is a shadow puppet it came
from Java in Indonesia since it would be
really hard to make a shadow puppet like
this one we're going to show you how to
make one a little less complicated like
this cute guy we're also going to show
you how to make a theater and we'll use
a leader to perform a shadow puppet play
this idea was sent in by the citizen
school of Boston Massachusetts to make a
shadow puppet you'll need oak tag or
poster board brass hinge fasteners which
you can find at an office supply store a
few sheets of colored tissue paper and
unsharpened pencils or sticks first draw
an animal or person onto the oak Tech I
made a turtle then draw its features
here's his little eye and his spots then
cut your animal and its features out of
the oak tag so that it looks like this
see how you only have the little lines
here and these parts are cut out and
then you can just make the eye with a
hole puncher now he can see the world
then turn your puppet over and cover
over the features with color tissue
paper just tape them on
little piece here a little piece there
it's gonna have green spots there we go
see how the light shines through to mix
it all pretty then he needs and I put a
little piece over there it's gonna he's
gonna be a special turtle with a pink
eye ah what a cutie
if you want any part of your animal to
move like the head cut it off and then
fasten it back on with a brass hinge
fastener no that's why it's good to make
that part of the body that you want to
be to cut off and tape back on you want
it to be extra long so that when you put
them together if it's just the right
size and I'm using a hole puncher to
make the holes because it's a lot easier
put it in now his head can move then put
the unsharpened pencil or sticks and
tape them to the back of the body part
that you want to control like I'm going
to put one on the big body part because
I want to be able to hold it and then
I'm going to put one on the little body
part so that I can move the head up and
down make sure not to put the tape onto
the breast hinge fastened or extend a
wall move there you go it's a little
shadow puppet really cute stay tuned
because soon and I'm going to show you
how to make the theater
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mum ilk a band lobby Neville flubber
Auburn oven
Kevin stomach up of pancakes have
another popper them a mob a Jetta
clobber it's double guys
Cabo covers I've been a bow
Bob Raghava my Bose type of mummy
zapping trouble cup of uh Bob I Bible my
baked double stomach up of pave eggs go
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followed up about Mitanni hi my name is
Anna and I love electricity good I like
playing with electricity and getting
messy and stuff good works
people like to use electricity in the
house all the time if we had no like
just he wouldn't be modern we wouldn't
have fridges it wouldn't have Stowe's we
wouldn't have a whole bunch of things I
sort of want to be a person that like
when your refrigerator goes down
somebody comes over and rewires it or
something I discovered the Bakken museum
of electricity and magnetism in my
neighborhood I began volunteering there
to learn more about electricity I like
helping other kids that's a balk and
perfect I like teaching them different
experiments and sometimes kids sick are
you a small eighth grader or something
I'm like no I just know a lot and
they're like wow there are two kinds of
electricity static and current current
electricity flows it moves through a
circuit the electricity flows from the
batteries to the light bulb through the
wires that makes a circuit see it has to
be a closed circuit for it to work this
generates Natick electricity and make
huge sparks static electricity doesn't
flow instead it builds up in a learning
place when I rub this wound on my hair
it makes a little bit of static and when
I use the static generator it makes a
lot of static
I'm alive I'm gonna show you how to make
this flashlight the flashlight uses
current electricity how you make it is
pretty easy you need some wires a
battery and a light bulb and you just
connect the two wires from the battery
to the light bulb which makes a circuit
which makes the light go on good it
works what I'm going to do is take a
toilet paper roll stuffing everything
into the toilet paper roll now we're
gonna put the reflector on you just put
it over your light this is for the
reflection of the flashlight eyes close
the circuit by squeezing it the two
metals are touching which makes the like
Bosco I use my flashlight to look around
in my house to find things when the
light lights up you're like oh I need a
flashlight it's fun to make one alexis G
of Temecula California asked us to show
her how to make a potato battery we
tried in a couple different ways and we
discovered that we can power a digital
clock with the potato okay first we cut
the potato in half and put it on a plate
then we took some wire and wrapped it
around a penny wrap all the way around
to the wire
like this okay
then we took some more wire and wrapped
it around a galvanized nail shoes this
end
just wrap the why all the way around
paint this Oh then we stick these in
like this and like this
okay then we do the same thing with the
other half but except for one thing we
don't wrap wire around a nail we only
wrap it around the penny stick this in
here and then stick the nail in got any
wire Oh make sure none of these like the
nail and the penny aren't touching then
connect the wire from this penny over to
the other that's half of the potato to
the nail
then after that connect one of the wires
from one and a half the potato so one of
the wires coming out of a clock and then
yell the wire from this penny to the
other wire coming out of the clock and
it works
oops you gotta get this to stay on here
it works now I'm going to set the clock
so it shows seconds this invention
actually makes less electricity the
chemicals in the potato react with the
penny then it sends the electricity to
this nail and then to this penny the
electricity in this penny goes to this
nail through the wire on the clock and
then back to this penny so it's kind of
like a cycle if any of these wires were
removed or changed around in a different
way the clock wouldn't work
see if I took this out it's removed so
I'm just stick it back in and it works
instead of using a potato
could you make a battery out of a lemon
or an apple
are there other materials that you could
use for a source of energy test it out
then tell us what you used and how it
worked and then send your reports to
zoom
opposite a poem by a DK of South Bend
Indiana opposites can come in any form
tiny are huge cool or warm opposites can
be big or small fat or skinny or short
or tall by golly have I used them all no
there's plenty more to see
make a list there's more than three
here's an email from Joseph R of navel
10 Georgia two daughters and two moms
went to the bike store they all bought a
bike but they only had three bikes how
is that possible I know this one
oh you do yeah to an okay can I read
that again let him get it two daughters
and two moms went to the bike store they
all bought a bike but they only had
three bikes how is that possible I
didn't know maybe um grandmother and a
mother and mother's daughter and the
daughter Honda she's no God out that was
really close something extra presence
yeah yeah it's like it's a grandmother
it's a good dance before he doesn't know
it's a grandmother a mom and a
granddaughter three people the mother
and the granddaughter can does the two
daughters because the moms are darted to
the granddaughter and the grandmother
and mother cans of two moms oh that's
really cool hmm I have a letter dear
zoom i watch your show every day I went
to Monrovia California for the National
unicycling convention with my team in
North Bend Washington called the Panther
pride demo team I used to live in North
Bend but I moved to Texas I flew back to
Washington to go with my team I can also
write a six foot in cycle called giraffe
what we are we are in two newspapers
sincerely Aaron W of Houston Texas Wow
really there is a picture he sent once
we like Oh Gary I know taller than my
dad
Wow cool cool Johanna got some do that
yeah okay yeah I got it's very colorful
deer zoom here's a joke
one night a mushroom went to a dance
dance party mm-hmm the mutton saw a
pretty lady and she was alone so the
mushroom went up turn and asked do you
want to dance with me and she said you
know way then the mushroom said oh come
on I'm a fungi fun guy ah like you asked
Lucy should you like her oh it's so cute
a fungus should I didn't know away and
okay that's really cool
oh my Cody and Kay romance burrow North
Carolina deer zoom if you could change
your name what would it be
Adrienne are of Brawley California I
like mine I like my name too but a name
but I really like is Bridget and I like
the name Delilah I might change my name
to Ashleigh I really love that
Nate I love that I love Ashley too but I
like my name too
yeah yeah I feel so different with a
with a different name I know I just
wouldn't like fit me you look like my
family thank you Thank You Caroline
Linda ate about Yuka Mississippi
nominated Andrew H for today's Zuma
kumoi day Andrew finished first grade
with perfect attendance and straight A's
way to go Andrew you'll be receiving
your Zuma cool on a certificate in the
mail now I'll show you how to make the
shadow puppet theater you'll need a
cardboard box at least as big as your
shadow puppet but much bigger if you
want to put on a show with a lot of
puppets in it and white tissue paper
first take the cardboard box and cut off
an entire side like this then cover that
side with the white tissue paper I
already have one of the sides taped on
so I'll just lift it up keep it up there
and tape it around the edges and go you
want to put it on nice and tight and
smooth so that it will work and it won't
be bubbly now for the sides I'll just
make a square and push down the red
triangle take that
do the same thing to the bottom this is
fun it's like wrapping a present
I love wrapping presents and put one in
the middle flips the bottom fell down a
bigger piece of pink it's a little
combat but it work and then do the same
thing to the other side then on down the
bottom and doing down the side next I'm
going to put a slot in the box four
inches wide near the middle on the side
of the box that is opposite the side
that you just cut out from so they're
right if you look through one it's
facing the other and now that we have
our theater we're ready to perform The
Tortoise and the hare a shadow puppet
play written by the Zoomer is but
inspired by an Aesop's fable let's watch
Shh come on is going guys seeing one the
hair challenges tortoise to a race where
you hate or this I challenge you to a
race today at high noon sure that would
be fun
are you sure you know you'll never beat
me that's okay I can certainly try
seeing for the hairnet please I'm so far
ahead of that slow tortoise
I think I'll taking that by this nice
tree thank you thank you see five the
finish line before I knew it the corners
reached the finish line while the hare
continued his napping the crowd cheered
as the tortoise reached the finish line
I won then they all congratulate him
tortoise and then left to a para party
in his honor see you later at the party
moments later the hare arrived and said
hey hey where is everybody everybody's
gone the race is over
i won haven't you won I'm supposed to
win because slow and steady always wins
the race hey Shan steady always wins the
race that can't be right can he be right
slow and steady always wins the race and
so our hero the tortoise walked away a
winner - a celebration party because
everyone knows that Oh
check it out check it out oh it is
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American live-action children's television series in which child cast members present a variety of types of content, including games, recipes, science experiments, and short plays, based on ideas sent in by children, and is a remake of the 1972 television program of the same name.
American live-action children's television series in which child cast members present a variety of types of content, including games, recipes, science experiments, and short plays, based on ideas sent in by children, and is a remake of the 1972 television program of the same name.