[lively music] - Hey Read-a-roo how are you?

Oh.

How am I?

Mister Jim is doing great because I'm inviting everyone to the Rootle dance party.

Wait, you wanna help me invite people to the dance party?

Oh that's great.

Well who should we invite first?

Oh you know who to invite?

Well great, let's go.

[upbeat music] - [Female Announcer] Presenting Rootle's block party live at home.

Get ready for a jam packed hour of hands-on activities, friends from Winston Salem North Carolina, adventures with Read-a-roo, and more!

And now introducing your super talented host Miss E and Miss Shana.

[people clapping] - Well hello there neighbors, it's time for Rootle's block party live at home.

- What are you doin' over there?

- Oh hi Miss Shana.

You caught me admiring the beautiful corn and tomatoes I just pulled from my garden.

I'm gonna share some of these yummy vegetables with my neighbors.

- That's right, today is Rootle's block party live at home and we're celebrating all of our neighbors.

- That's right.

And a neighbor can be someone who lives right next door, it can be someone who lives right down the street, or even on the other side of the world.

A neighbor can be anyone you feel connected to.

- Oh look, it's Read-a-roo and mister Jim.

- Read-a-roo and I are here to invite you both to the big Rootle dance party.

- You know Miss Shana and I are gonna be there.

Who else have you invited?

- I also invited someone else.

Maya!

May!

[Maya whistling] I've invited my bird Maya to come to the dance party.

- Nice to meet you Maya.

[Maya tweeting] - Miss Shana, I think Maya likes you.

- And I like Maya right back.

- Will you look after Maya while Read-a-roo and I invite our neighbors to the Rootle dance party?

- Yes.

I love bird sitting and I'm especially good at bird sitting cute little birds.

- Oh well thank you.

Now look, we just have to make sure we keep an eye on Maya, she loves to play hide and seek.

- Don't worry, I'll keep my eye on the birdie.

- Great!

Read-a-roo and I will be right back in a little while.

Bye now!

- Mister Jim is a very nice neighbor.

- I agree, and it was very neighborly of you to watch his bird for him.

Now remember, make sure you keep an eye on her.

- Oh don't worry Miss E, everything is okay, as long as she doesn't start flying around.

[Maya tweeting] - Oh no, Maya's flying around.

- Everything's okay as long as she doesn't fly away.

[Maya tweeting] - Uh oh, Maya's gone now, what are we gonna do?

- Uh oh.

Now we should be worried.

I'd better go find Maya before she finds a place to hide.

[Miss Shana gasps] - Okay, while when Miss Shana tries to find Maya let's go meet some neighbors who are going to get us moving from the Boys and Girls Club of Rocky Mount North Carolina.

[people clapping] [light guitar music] - I'm thankful that my gratitude dictates my attitude.

- I'm thankful for my mom because she gave me birth.

- And I'm thankful for my club because they help me determine my worth.

- I'm thankful for the sun because it keeps me warm.

- I am thankful for my dad because he protects me from harm.

- I am thankful for my food because it fills my tummy.

- I'm thankful for fruits 'cause they taste so yummy.

- I'm thankful for exercise 'cause it keeps my body fit.

- I'm thankful for my teachers 'cause they won't let me quit.

- Thankful for my friends 'cause they're there for me.

- I'm thankful for the sky, the land, and the sea.

- I am thankful for the love because nothing can keep us apart.

- Thankful for my neighbors because their joy fills my heart.

[guitar music] - Joy fills my heart!

- Joy fills my heart!

- Joy makes me wanna.

- Joy makes me wanna.

- Jump jump!

- Jump jump!

- Stomp stomp!

- Stomp stomp!

- Shake shake!

- Shake shake!

- Now breathe!

- Now breathe!

[kids shouting] - Jump jump!

- Jump jump!

- Stomp stomp!

- Stomp stomp!

- Shake shake!

- Shake shake!

- Now breathe!

- Now breathe!

[kids shouting] - Jump jump!

- Jump jump!

- Stomp stomp!

- Stomp stomp!

- Shake shake!

- Shake shake!

- Now breathe!

- Now breathe!

[kids shouting] [light music] - Oh man I love the Boys and Girls Club.

Jump.

[Miss Shana sings] Stomp.

Shake.

And breathe.

Oh I just wish Maya was here to see them but I don't know where she is.

I know I saw her fly in this direction but I can't [Maya tweets] seem to find her.

Hmm.

[Maya tweets] Oh.

Will you help me find Maya the bird?

- [Children] Yes!

- You will?

Great!

Okay let's look around to see if we can find where Maya is hiding.

Hmm.

Look closely [Maya tweets] do you see Maya the bird?

- [Children] Yes!

- You see her?

Oh I see her too.

[Miss Shana laughs] Enough of your shenanigans Miss Maya, come on over here.

[Maya tweets] [Miss Shana laughs] You're right, that was a great game of hide and seek.

And now it's time to meet another great neighbor, beekeeper Samantha of Mothers Finest Family Farms in Winston-Salem North Carolina.

[light acoustic music] - My name is Samantha and I'm a farmer, beekeeper, and owner of Mother's Finest Family Farm in Winston Salem North Carolina.

I really enjoy inviting kids to the farm to teach them about beekeeping, harvesting, and giving them a fun hands-on experience.

Together with my sons we raise chickens, ducks, and honey bees.

We try to be good neighbors by educating people about bees and producing food for our community.

The bees do so many amazing things on our farm like pollinate our plants in our greenhouse.

We're able to harvest tomatoes, beets, and carrots, and flowers, to help feed the bees as well, and we take that stuff outside of the community and we help feed other families.

All week long we work on a farm harvesting food, packing it, and getting it ready for the farmers market on Saturday's.

We're gonna go on a scavenger hunt and show you some of the plants that the bees pollinate to help us to be good neighbors and take it to market.

Let's go.

The bees are able to pollinate these elderberries and then we take them from our farm and we make syrups with them.

We also put honey inside of that syrup and people in our community take it to stay healthy.

[birds chirping] The more produce we have the more we could share with other people.

- We're being good neighbors by helping the bees pollinate by planting these flowers.

We plant these flowers so bees can be good pollinators and good neighbors.

- These are some of the local crops that the bees help us with when they pollinate.

They also help us with when we are going to the farmers market and we are selling our produce to the community.

[rocks clinking] - We're making a bee feeder for the bees.

The bees are able to use the rocks to stand on and that way they don't drown when they're drinking the water.

We can be a good neighbor by doing these type of small things to help feed the bees sugar and water.

[machine clinking] This is our honey extractor that we use to extract honey from our bee frames on our farm.

It spins around really fast and all the honey is collected and it comes out.

We jar it and we sell it at the farmers market.

Thank you bees for your pollinating our food.

Without bees there would be no food.

So remember to be a good neighbor and good family member and share as much as you can about bees with your friends and family.

Stay bee-autiful.

[Samantha laughs] That was corny.

[?

Laughs] - That was corny corny.

- That was so.

[bees buzzing] - Mm, not only do I love beekeeper Samantha I also love bees.

I appreciate bees because they help flowers and plants to grow.

They also share their delicious honey with us.

[Miss E laughs] Thank you miss bee.

Miss bee wanted me to tell you that you don't have to be afraid of bees if they buzz near you, they're just being curious.

Really, you will?

Well miss bee just told me that she was going to make me an honorary honey bee.

[dinging] Whoa I love them!

Look at me, I'm miss E the bee.

[Miss E laughs] Thank you again miss bee.

While I have fun buzzing around, let's watch, play, explore and share, with this clip from the PBS Kids show "Daniel Tigers Neighborhood".

[Miss E laughs] [people clapping] - [Children] Now let's watch!

- You know it does [soft music] feel good in here when you do something kind.

[Collette laughs] - It's true.

- Hey, I have an idea!

- You do?

- I want to do something nice for all of our neighbors.

- What do you wanna do?

- Hmm.

Well sunflowers make you really happy right mom?

- They sure do.

- So maybe sunflowers would make our neighbors happy too.

♪ Do something nice for your neighbor ♪ ♪ Do something nice for your friends ♪ Would it be okay if I gave your sunflowers to our neighbors?

- Yes you are a very thoughtful little tiger.

That's a lovely idea!

[Daniel laughs] Here, we can take these.

- Thanks mom.

Giving sunflowers to all the neighbors is a big job.

You'll help me right?

Let's go!

[light music] [trolley dinging] - Here's trolley.

- Hi trolley!

[Daniel humming] Please take us to main street.

[trolley dinging] [upbeat music] I'm excited to give all of these sunflowers out our neighbors will love it!

- They will, and we can keep our eyes open for other neighborly things to do too.

- Yes!

We can do lots and lots of neighborly things for our neighbors.

I'm glad you're helping too.

[children laughing] Trolley, I see my friends!

Let's stop and give them a sunflower.

[trolley dinging] - Hi Tiger Daniel!

- Hello Daniel.

- Hello Tigers.

- Hello misses Tiger.

[cheerful music] ♪ Do something nice ♪ ♪ For your neighbor do something nice for your friends ♪ - Do something nice for your neighbor, do something nice for your friend.

[Miss E laughs] I just love that song.

Now let's explore what we just saw.

Do you remember what Daniel Tiger wanted to do for all of his neighbors?

That's right.

Daniel and his mom decided to be nice to their neighbors by giving them sunflowers.

When we do nice things for our neighbors we help make the neighborhood a nicer place to live.

Now let's meet the Gattis family to see what nice things they're doing for their neighbors.

[people clapping] - [Children] Now let's play!

- Hi we're he Gattis family.

- Hi we're the Gattis family.

Today we're gonna-- - Today we're gonna be a good neighbor.

- Be a good neighbor.

By giving away-- - By giving away-- - Some of our - Some of our toys and clothes.

- Toys and clothes.

- Come on Harper!

- [Little Boy] I think it's a good idea to donate my toys and clothes so we can be good people and neighbors.

- [Girl In Striped Shirt] I think it's a good idea to donate my toys and clothes because it's being a good neighbor.

Some people don't have that much toys that we have so we need to donate some of our toys to children in need.

- Good job.

[claps hands] [light music] - [Children] Now let's share!

- [Man In Blue And White Shirt] We have our children donate to the Urban Ministries of Durham and the Durham Rescue Mission to help our fellow neighbors in need and to also teach them about being cheerful givers.

- [Girl In White Dress] I hope the children that receive our toys will feel happy.

- I love how the Gattis family showed us how important it is to do nice things for our neighbors.

Being a caring neighbor means acting neighborly.

We're being neighborly when we're friendly and we look for ways to help the people who live around us.

Read-a-roo, I was just sharing with our friends here about being a caring neighbor like you've been a caring neighbor to mister Jim.

And because you were so neighborly I wanted to give you this thank you card.

I made you a thank you note to let you know how much I appreciate you being a caring neighbor.

Now who would you like to make a thank you note for?

Aw that's so sweet.

Look!

Read-a-roo made me a thank you note.

I made another thank you note.

Do you know who this one is for?

I'll tell you, this is my thank you note to you.

I am so thankful that you are my neighbor.

[upbeat music] ♪ Do do do ♪ ♪ Do do do do do do do ♪ ♪ Do do do do do do do do ♪ ♪ I saw Read-a-roo running round Raleigh ♪ ♪ Hopped the Piedmont train ♪ ♪ And a little red trolley to Wrightsville ♪ ♪ In the coastal plain ♪ ♪ She's gonna spread the news round the mountains to the sea ♪ ♪ That a party's coming it's meant for you and me ♪ ♪ North Carolina and Rootle is its name ♪ ♪ And all our friends are gathering ♪ ♪ 'Cause Rootle time is here ♪ ♪ So we're gonna Rootle up Rootle down ♪ ♪ We're gonna Rootle it out now ♪ ♪ Rootle left Rootle right ♪ ♪ We're gonna Rootle in the day or in the night ♪ ♪ We're gonna fly like a bird and roll like a tree ♪ ♪ We're gonna Rootle out the answer to every mystery ♪ ♪ Everybody's learning how everybody Rootle now ♪ ♪ The world is a story so read all about it ♪ ♪ And it's made of numbers so we're gonna count it ♪ ♪ And make our plan and send up a rocket to see ♪ ♪ Everything that we wanna know ♪ ♪ Whether it's right here or faraway to go ♪ ♪ If we try we can grow to be ♪ ♪ Anything we want to be ♪ ♪ Already said let's go ♪ ♪ So we're gonna Rootle up Rootle down ♪ ♪ We're gonna Rootle it out now ♪ ♪ Rootle here Rootle there we're gonna Rootle it everywhere ♪ ♪ We're gonna fly like a bird and roll like a tree ♪ ♪ We're gonna Rootle out the answer to every mystery ♪ ♪ Everybody's learning how everybody Rootle now ♪ ♪ Rootle up Rootle down Rootle in the middle now ♪ ♪ Rootle see Rootle do Rootle like a kangaroo ♪ ♪ Rootle left Rootle right Rootle in the day or night ♪ ♪ Rootle like a rocket we'll soon be Rootle-ing out of sight ♪ ♪ Read-A-Roo is a friend of mine ♪ ♪ Just hopping up and down 'cause it's Rootle time ♪ ♪ Everybody's learning how everybody Rootle now ♪ ♪ We're gonna Rootle it out now ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh ♪ ♪ Rootle here Rootle there we're gonna Rootle it everywhere ♪ ♪ Rootle up Rootle down we're gonna Rootle it out out now ♪ ♪ Everybody Rootle now ♪ ♪ Rootle up Rootle down we're gonna Rootle it out out now ♪ ♪ Everybody Rootle now ♪ [cheerful music] - Hi everyone, look what I just picked from my garden.

Can you tell me what vegetable this is?

That's right, they're carrots.

And like all vegetables carrots grow from seeds we plant in the ground.

You know, people are sort of like plants just like we need food, air, and water to grow, so do plants.

Shana.

Why are you dressed like a carrot?

- This is my way of showing gratitude to our farmers.

They grow all of the wonderful healthy food we eat.

- You're right Miss Shana.

And farmers are also our neighbors.

- And farmers grow lots of delicious things like lettuce, and tomatoes, and potatoes, and.

- Carrots!

- That's right!

Carrots!

And carrots are not only delicious they are full of vitamin A.

- And now let's meet some neighbors who know a bunch about vegetables.

Burt County 4-H in Morganton North Carolina.

[lively piano music] - [Nicki] Gardens can be a great way to bring people together and share with our neighbors.

When you grow your own garden, participate in a community garden, or produce food crops on a farm, you know our garden fruits and veggies need neighbors of all kinds to visit.

They need pollinators like bees and butterflies to help them grow.

And people to take care of the plants to make sure they're growing in a weed free environment with plenty of sunshine and water.

Lots of kids will call our Burt County 4-H office and say "miss Nicki I wanna do a fun activity, "what can I do?"

So the fun activity we wanna show you today is making a veggie creature.

You can use whatever vegetables you and your family have available, it may depend on your location or time of year.

The veggies we are gonna use today came from our local farmers market and from some neighbors living near my house.

Be sure to thank all the farmers for all they do and for our veggies.

These veggie pieces we have washed and pre cut into different shapes.

An adult can help you prepare veggies or maybe you can even use scraps after your family prepared a meal.

For today we have.

Potato.

Corn and corn husk.

Green beans.

Carrots.

Celery.

Yellow squash.

Kale.

Cucumber.

And creamy cheese to use as our glue.

Start out with any flat surface that you can create on.

When creating a veggie creature think about the neighbors that visit those gardens.

You may want to make a caterpillar or a bunny rabbit or maybe you wanna make the farmer that grew the veggies.

Let's make a caterpillar.

Begin with the body, I'm using a potato piece.

Now you can add carrots for legs and a face.

Maybe some green beans for spikes.

And how about kale for fuzz?

Be creative.

Let's make hair from squash.

The creamy cheese holds my veggies together very well.

One of my favorite things about being in the Burt County 4-H agent is seeing what kids can create.

Show us your veggie creatures.

- Wasn't that so much fun?

I didn't make creatures out of vegetables like our friends, but let me show you what I did do.

I have a nice little bowl of tasty carrots.

Apple slices.

And orange wedges.

I've made these because I like to share healthy snacks with my neighbors.

You know I wanna make more snacks for my neighbors but I can't seem to find the carrots or the apple [Miss E laughs] or the orange, they're around here somewhere.

Wait I have an idea, will you help me find them?

- [Children] Yes!

- You will?

Terrific.

Now look carefully.

Do you see the apple?

You do?

- [Children] Yes!

- You're right, there it is.

Good job!

Now do you see the bunch of carrots?

You see the carrots?

- [Children] Yes!

- Me too!

Wonderful work everybody.

Now I think this one might be a little hard.

Do you see the orange?

You see the orange?

There it is, I see it!

With your help I found all of my healthy snacks, thank you.

Now as much as I like looking for food, there's nothing better than eating healthy food.

Let's visit some friends who are learning how to grow healthy foods.

Meet our smart start neighbors from Wilmington North Carolina.

[light music] [children chattering indistinctly] - Farm to ECE is the way that we teach young children about nutrition and fresh fruits and vegetables.

- Spinach, this is spinach.

- Mommy said I have to eat salads and I did.

[upbeat music] - All right boys let's start working in the garden.

Can you guys do some shoveling and some raking?

[children groaning] [man in red shirt laughs] - So right now in the gardens we have mixed greens and we also have some herbs so kids can water them whenever they go outside as well as picking some different weeds.

They do that with their teachers.

- Look at the leaves, can you pick the leaves out?

- The children love to go outside and dig in the dirt and look at the fresh vegetables because they don't always know what those fresh vegetables look like.

- They like to pull the weeds, they like to rake, they like to hoe the garden and they like to get their hands dirty.

[children shouting] They absolutely love the garden.

- Do you remember what that is?

Can you say basil?

[children chattering] - I got it!

- You got it!

Are we gonna share that with chef Ashley?

- When they go outside they see what's growing.

As soon as the peppers are even a little bit long they pick 'em and they come down and they'll say "hey chef Ashley we got these peppers," and I'll tell them what dish we're gonna use them in next.

They really love that.

- Seeing our smart start neighbors grow food made me hungry.

And one of my favorite snacks is carrot sticks.

I know that rabbits are supposed to love carrots, but I don't think anyone loves carrot sticks more than I do.

[carrot crunching] [rabbit dinging] Did you see that?

That's funny, I thought I saw the bunny hop, but that's silly right because this is a toy bunny and toy bunnies don't eat carrots.

[rabbit dinging] Oh!

It looks like this toy bunny does wanna try one of my carrots.

I think I'm gonna invite the bunny to share a carrot snack with me.

Would you like a carrot stick?

[rabbit dinging] Well I guess that's a yes.

So while I feed my furry friend, let's check back in with the PBS kids series "Daniel Tigers Neighborhood".

[rabbit dinging] [carrot crunching] ♪ Do something nice for your neighbor ♪ ♪ Do something nice for your friends ♪ - Like helping me carry this heavy package.

- Mhmm.

- Hello.

Woops!

[Doctor Anna laughs] A runaway apple!

- Mom, will you hold this for a sec?

I'll get it for you doctor Anna.

Here you go.

- Thank you Daniel.

Oh it's a good thing you were here to help.

- You're welcome.

And here's a sunflower for you too.

- Why, I love sunflowers.

- My mom does too.

I just wanted to do something nice for my neighbors.

- Well you did.

Two nice things.

And now I better get these apples home before they start running away again.

[Doctor Anna laughs] [light music] Bye!

- Bye Doctor Anna.

- Did you see Doctor Anna's face?

She was so happy.

[light music] - I love doing things that make people happy.

Meow meow.

- Me too.

- Me three.

[children laughing] [door bell dinging] - Come on in!

- Hello!

[children laughing] - Hey kiddo!

- Hi music man Stan!

- Hi music man Stan!

- Music man Stan.

- We brought these packages for you.

[white cat laughs] - You brought these for me.

- Yep we're helping mister McFeely.

- How neighborly of you.

- We want to do something nice for our neighbors.

[cheerful music] ♪ Do something nice ♪ ♪ For your neighbor do something nice for your friends ♪ Like bringing you these packages.

- Thanks kids.

Let's see what's inside.

[children chattering] [Stan laughs] Oh!

It's a picture of me and Baker Aker singing in our band.

Our band is called bread and jam.

He bakes the bread [Stan laughs] and I like to jam.

[children laughing] This picture reminds me of how much fun we have when we play music.

Now let's see what's in this big package.

- Meow meow meow.

- Inside.

- I wonder what it could be.

[children laughing] - Hey!

- Wow.

- It's my new instruments for the shop.

- Look it's new maracas!

Shake a shake a shake!

- Triangles.

[triangle dinging] My favorite.

- And kazoos!

[kazoo whirring] - My goodness, that's a lot of instruments.

- Yep and I have to put them all away but I'd better recycle these empty boxes first.

Be right back.

- That gives me an idea.

[light music] ♪ Do something nice ♪ ♪ For your neighbor do something nice for your friends ♪ What could we do that's nice for music man Stan?

Hmm.

Hey!

It would be so helpful to help put all the instruments away.

Don't you think?

- That would be something nice.

Woo hoo!

- Let's do it!

Let's do it!

[white cat claps hands] - Yeah!

- Yeah!

- Mom we wanna put away the instruments for music man Stan.

- What a kind thing to do!

I'll be on the lookout for music man Stan so we can surprise him.

- Now let's explore what we just saw.

Daniel wanted to do something nice for music man Stan.

Do you remember what he did?

That's right.

Daniel and his friends helped put away the musical instruments.

I loved how they helped clean up his shop.

Helping clean up is a great way to be neighborly.

Whenever I walk through my neighborhood I pick up any trash I see and put it right where it belongs into the trash can.

And when I'm at home I make sure to put things where they belong.

I can be a caring neighbor by keeping my home and my neighborhood clean.

Now doesn't everything look nicer that everything's where it should be?

- [Children] Yes!

- I think so too.

Now let's see what the Hallaq family does to be caring neighbors in their neighborhood.

- [Children] Now let's play!

- Hi neighbors.

We're the Hallaq family.

For this project you need.

Paper.

A black pen.

Scissors.

And for decoration you need Crayons and a colorful pen.

And if you wanna stick them to the wall you need tape.

- Need tape.

- First you need to fold your paper into squares.

[paper rustling] Next you're gonna trace a design to the corner of your paper.

After that you get your scissors and you cut where you traced your line.

- I did it!

- Finally my favorite part, you get to color your snowflake!

Now you get some tape and you put it on your snowflake.

And you get your snowflake and you put it on the wall.

- Yay!

I did the line.

- [Children] Now let's share!

[cheerful music] - I especially love making snowflakes for my neighbors.

Bye neighbors!

- Bye neighbors!

- Mila and Sham showed us wonderful ways to be neighborly.

Can you think of any ways to be neighborly?

Those are wonderful ideas.

Planting flowers, asking your family what you can do to help, and even sharing a big smile with your neighbors helps make the neighborhood a nicer place to live.

Now let's see what Read-a-roo and mister Jim are up to.

- Inviting all of our neighbors to the Rootle dance party is gonna be hard work.

I just wish there was an easier way to invite everybody.

You have an idea?

We should send them a Rootle bop?

What's a Rootle bop?

A Rootle bop is a dance?

But how do we send a Rootle bop to our neighbors?

Oh, I get it now.

When we do the Rootle bop our neighbors see us and they will Rootle bop with us.

This.

Is.

This is so great!

[upbeat music] But I wanna invite even more neighbors.

Wait let's send this out to even more neighbors.

We did it!

We did it Read-a-roo, all of our neighbors have been invited and we will see you all at the Rootle dance party.

Woo thank you Read-a-roo.

I think this is gonna be the best Rootle dance party ever.

[lively music] - Hi grown ups, we have something special that's just for you.

Did you know that Rootle has its very own E newsletter?

If you sign up for a subscription you'll receive information about free events, free resources, and more.

Check out our website at PBS NC dot O-R-G slash Rootle block party.

Hi everyone, I have something really special to show you.

It's a globe!

This is a model of our planet earth.

Isn't it cool?

One of the things that makes it so cool is that it can show us where we live in North Carolina.

Here, take a look.

[light music] This is North Carolina.

Over here to the left is Asheville.

In the middle near the top is Durham and Raleigh.

And down by the bottom is Wilmington.

No matter where you live in the state you have a lot of neighbors here in North Carolina.

But wait, there's more.

Here in North Carolina we also have neighbors in other states.

Above us is Virginia, below us is South Carolina, and next to us is Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.

This is the United States of America, but below us is Mexico and the countries of Central America.

And above is Canada.

If we keep moving we'll see our neighbors in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

And next to them are our neighbors in Russia, India, Asia, and Australia.

And if we keep going we'll end up back in the United States and back home in North Carolina.

Isn't that great that we have neighbors all over the world?

I think so too.

Now let's see what our friends in the Cumberland County 4-H in Fayetteville North Carolina are up to.

[upbeat music] - The average ear of corn has 800 kernels.

It takes about 26 point one pounds of corn to produce one gallon of ethanol.

One bushel of corn can make 400 canned sodas.

- Hello!

- Hello.

- What's up everybody?

My name is Keran Horton and I am 12-years-old.

- Hello my name is Ken Horton and I am 10-years old.

Here's my lovely vase I've made.

Today we're gonna be teaching you how to make a popcorn craft.

All right I'm gonna be teaching you how to make a background.

All you need is some water, some paint, paper.

- [Keran] Course paint brush.

And whatever you want, just remember doing something really really pretty.

Remember it's gonna get covered by popcorn.

So you're gonna grab glue.

You can either dot the piece of paper with glue first, then put the popcorn on that, or you can put the dot of glue on the popcorn.

You can even paint on the popcorn if you really want.

I have this awesome idea.

Paint the popcorn blue!

So then it'll look like water swishing around in the vase.

- Hello my name is Drake Campbell Horton.

Today I'll be teaching you how to do the extras.

I'm making a popcorn box.

I went ahead and cut a piece of card stock and folded it up into a box.

I cut a circle I then drew the words pop corn on it and cut strips of red paper on it, I'm gonna glue this to the paper and glue some popcorn on it to make it look like it's pouring out.

- And that is how you make a popcorn craft.

- I hope you have good luck in making your popcorn craft and have fun.

Bye.

- Bye!

- Bye.

- Hi I'm Sterling.

- And I'm Langston.

And together we are.

- Ling and lang.

- Ling and lang.

And today we're going to be making.

- A rain stick.

Better get an umbrella.

- For this rain stick we are going to need.

- A paper towel roll.

Some scissors.

Some duct tape.

Some aluminum foil.

Some yarn or whatever you'd like if you want to decorate it.

A funnel.

Oh reminds me of the funnel cake at the fair.

- Now the first thing you want to do is cut some duct tape off of the roll and cover one side of the paper towel roll with duct tape.

The second thing we want to do is roll up your aluminum foil loosely.

After you've done this you're gonna wanna place your aluminum foil inside of the paper towel.

And you're going to put two big handfuls of corn inside of the paper towel.

This will-- - Make sure you use a funnel when you do this.

- Yes this is where the funnel comes in.

[corn clinking] After this step you're almost done.

All you need is to cover up the other side with duct tape.

After you're done that you're basically done.

[rain stick rustling] And you have a nice rain stick that works pretty well.

- And if you wanna use some yarn or paint, whatever you like to decorate it you can do stuff.

And that's how-- - And that's how you make a rain stick.

- You make a rain stick.

Ling and Lang out.

- Ling and Lang out.

- That's so cute.

Our little neighborly farmers.

Hey everybody guess what we're doing?

We're making popcorn necklaces.

- That's right, we're stringing kernels of popcorn together so we can make necklaces to give to our neighbors.

- It's another way that we can be a caring neighbor.

We have great neighbors.

- That's right Miss Shana we sure do.

Hey!

It looks like I've run out of popcorn.

I guess I can't make any more popcorn necklaces.

- Oh but you can't stop making necklaces!

We have to make sure that we have enough to give all of our neighbors.

Lucky for us I made some extra popcorn in case we had a popcorn shortage.

[popcorn popping] - I don't think I like this.

Oh my!

What are we gonna do now?

- What are we gonna do now?

Hmm.

That's a great question, I don't know!

Maybe we'll have to make some really really big popcorn necklaces.

- Okay, well while we figure out what to do with all this popcorn let's check back in with "Daniel Tigers Neighborhood" the PBS Kids series.

- [Children] Now let's watch!

[light music] - Hi teacher Harriet!

[mumbles] Here's a sunflower for you.

- Oh my goodness.

- Meow meow.

Thanks for teaching us so much.

- Will you hold these for me please?

- Sure.

- And for always being so fun!

[light music] Boopsie boopsie boop fun.

[teacher Harriet laughs] - You are welcome.

[white cat laughs] This sunflower's going to brighten up my whole day.

Thank you!

- You're welcome.

- Okay everyone let's go.

- Making teacher Harriet happy makes me feel happy.

[children laughing and singing] [trolley dings] - Why hello king Friday, perfect timing, we have your cupcakes.

- Well thank you misses Tiger but I didn't come here for cupcakes, I came here to make an announcement!

[trumpet music] - Woo hoo!

[King Friday clears throat] _ I'm here to make an announcement!

[trumpet music] - What's going on?

[Daniel gasps] Dad?

Grump hair, grump hair!

Wow it's all of our neighbors.

- I would like to declare that today is neighbor day!

- Neighbor day!

- Neighbor day!

- If you wanna see more of "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" watch Rootle at eight AM and 8:30 AM every weekday.

Now let's explore what we just saw.

King Friday declared that today is neighbor day and that Daniel Tiger started it all.

What did Daniel do to start neighbor day, do you remember?

That's right, Daniel did kind helpful and nice things for his neighbors.

Now let's see how the Jackson family and the Jennings family do kind helpful things for their animals.

[people clapping] - [Children] Now let's play.

- Hi guys!

- Hi guys!

We're the Jackson family-- - We're the Jackson family from Jake Wood-- - From Jake Wood County North Carolina.

- County North Carolina.

- I'm Olivia.

- I'm Sadie.

- I am Justin.

- I'm Keith.

- We are going to tell you about an awesome 4-H project.

- In this project we learn how to care and show lamb in a livestock show.

To complete a show first you need to get a lamb and take care of it each day.

- My name is Zade and I'm 10-years-old and this is my goat named Rider.

- Hey my name is Carter and I'm five-years-old and here's my goat named Megan.

- [Keith] To keep the land healthy they need to be fed grain and hay each day.

- They get fed and watered twice a day, in the morning and in the afternoon like we eat breakfast and dinner.

- The other things you need to get a lamb ready for a show is practice, practice, practice!

[sheep bleating] - When walking them around we teach them to follow the lead and stop and go when we want them to.

We also have to brace the lambs to make his muscles pop because the judge is looking for which animal has the most muscle.

Okay that's good.

The last thing we do to get ready for a show is get the lambs cleaned and groomed.

[lamb bleating] We first wash the lambs wool.

When they are all clean we use a blower to dry their wool.

- [Keith] We give them a haircut by shearing their wool like we shave our heads.

- Being a good neighbor means treating our animals kindly and taking good care of them by giving them proper food and keeping them healthy.

[light music] - Just like the Jackson and Jenning's families took care of their animals I wanted to help Miss Shana take care of Maya [Maya tweets] by giving her something to eat.

[Maya tweeting] [food clinking] - Hi Miss E, thank you for helping me take care of Maya, you're doing a great job!

- Thank you.

- Seeing how everyone takes care of their pets made me think that I should get a pet to take care of too.

- That's a great idea Miss Shana, what kind of pet are you thinking about?

A dog?

Or a cat perhaps?

- No, I was thinking of a pet rock.

- A pet rock?

[Maya tweeting] [rock clinking] - Sure, why not?

- Well a rock doesn't eat, or drink.

What exactly does a pet rock do?

- What can a rock do?

A rock can roll!

[rock music] [rock clinking] [rock bangs] - I don't think I like this.

[rock clinking] - Uh oh I guess I have to teach my rock how to stop.

- Oh goodness.

Well while I help Miss Shana clean up another mess let's rock out to a fun song performed by some of our special friends, it's Read-a-roo's block party jam.

[upbeat music] ♪ Rootle is the place to go to learn new things ♪ ♪ With every activity ♪ ♪ You'll be able to explore your creativity ♪ ♪ Kids and parents both alike will enjoy it ♪ ♪ You won't want to leave us ♪ ♪ 'Cause we're gonna show you how to be a genius ♪ ♪ You can scout new places to go ♪ ♪ And learn things you don't know ♪ ♪ Bout science and countries ♪ ♪ We have so much more so come to Rootle to learn this ♪ [singing in Spanish] [people clapping] - [Female Announcer] Looking for new ways to play and learn at home?

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- Wasn't that a super fun song?

[light music] Hi Read-a-roo, hi mister Jim, hi Maya!

- Hi Miss E, thanks for taking care of Maya for me, that was so neighborly of you.

- You are so welcome.

So are you ready for the Rootle dance party?

- Oh my goodness yes, I can't wait to see all the neighbors we invited.

- Well then it's time to open the door.

[energetic music] ♪ Dance party ♪ ♪ Let's party ♪ ♪ Dance party ♪ ♪ Let's party ♪ ♪ Dance party ♪ ♪ Dance party ♪ - That was an amazing Rootle dance party!

- It sure was Miss Shana.

And we couldn't have done it without our very special neighbors who made all of this possible.

And if you wanna know more about our community neighbors ask your grown ups to check out our website at PBS NC dot org.

♪ Let's party ♪ - We learned a lotta things today.

We learned how we can be caring neighbors to people and bees thanks to beekeeper Samantha.

- That's right.

And we also learned how plants grow, and how great vegetables are whether you're eating them or making things with them.

- We got to move with our neighbors from Rocky Mount, and we got to see how we have neighbors not only here in North Carolina but all over the world!

- Yes and we learned how to make thank you notes and popcorn necklaces to give to our neighbors.

[Miss E laughs] - And don't forget that we learned how to be caring neighbors by taking care of our animals as well.

- And of course we have to thank you our neighbors at home!

We couldn't have danced, sang, or laughed if you weren't here with us.

Read-a-roo and Miss Shana let's show our friends at home how happy we are to have them as our neighbors.

[everyone clapping] - Yay!

- Remember from all of us here at Rootle's block party live at home be safe, be kind, and.

- And keep the Rootle dance party going!

Yeah!

[Miss Shana singing] [Miss Shana snapping fingers] Bye!

Bye!

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