(whistling)
Hi, my name is Megan and I'm here with
Trackers Earth
and we are going to be doing
today: Knife Safety for Kids.
So, the first thing we want to talk about is...
Are knives Tools or are they Toys?
Hmm. Knives are tools and we want
to treat them with respect.
They can be really fun,
but also they are very serious.
Before we be even begin, we want to
start by creating what's called a Blood Circle.
Or a Vampire Circle. 
(transylvanian accent)
I like to call them vampire circles
because if you come into my circle... 
my knife might try to suck your blood
or my knife might try to suck my blood.
So, we do not go in and out of our 
blood circles while we are carving.
We want to make sure that we can't touch 
anybody and that no one can touch us.
I'm going to bend down and
pick up my knife
and we are gonna start talking about
how we take the cover or the sheath off of our knife
and how we put it back on our knife.
This is my knife.
This is my knife's handle
and this is my knifes cover or sheath.
This protects my knife from getting damaged
but also protects me from my knife.
So, I want everybody to make one crab claw pincher...
(clicking)
and make another crab claw pincher
(clicking)
Oh ouch!
And now that we are all Dungeness Crabs,
we're gonna take a pincher, 
we're gonna put it on the end of 
our sheath or cover over here
and we're gonna take another pincher 
and put it on our handle.
And we're not gonna hold a knife
too close to our body
and we're not gonna hold it too far away.
We're gonna hold it just right.
So, we're gonna take this and we're gonna wiggle
and we're gonna pull the cover off.
We're not gonna pull the knife out
because if we accidentally drop the knife,
it's gonna hurt a lot worse than if we
accidentally drop our sheath.
Okay, ready?
We're gonna wiggle and pull the cover out. Awesome!
Now we're gonna try to put the cover back on.
The most important thing that you can do
is keep your eyes on your blade when you're doing this.
We're gonna put it back into the hole
with our fingertips on the end of the sheath
and we're gonna watch it go in
until we hear or feel a click or a pop...
(click)
Oh, great! Just right.
Now we're gonna take it off one more time
and then we're gonna be ready to start carving.
Okay!
Pincher. Pincher.
Wiggle and pull,
then you're gonna take your knife
and you're gonna point it down 
and away from your body
as you go to pick up the stick you're about to carve.
All right.
Now we're gonna make an Ice Cream Cone hand
around our knife or like a fist.
You're not gonna want to stick your fingers out.
Because if you stick your fingers into your ice cream...
it's gonna taste a lot like finger
and a lot less like ice cream.
We're gonna want to do the same thing
on our stick hand over here.
So nice, tight, and strong fists.
Now we're gonna bring our knife to our stick
and we're gonna want to carve away from our body,
keeping our eyes on the blade.
That's the most important thing 
I can tell you about knives.
If you keep your eyes on the blade, you will not get cut.
So, you're gonna take your knife
and you're gonna angle it just a little bit.
Now remember, this isn't a saw
and it's not a drill.
We're just gonna carve the tip over here
and we're gonna carve out into the air.
We're gonna take one cut together.
We're going to count to the number one
and then we're gonna take a quick break.
Ready?
One.
Alright. How did that feel?
Take a deep breath.
Shake it off. Okay!
Now we're gonna do the same thing again
but now I want to talk about one more thing.
You see this hand over here that's
holding my stick?
We don't want to get too close to it.
We want to make sure that when we're carving,
we're not holding a knife and 
the stick too close to our body
but also not too far away.
Just like when we took the cover or the
sheath off of our knife.
Okay, now we're gonna take one, two, three cuts.
Alright, ready?
One.
Two.
Three.
And let's take a quick break.
Remember, if your hands start to hurt,
hands don't like to be in fists for a very long time.
So that's a great time for you to
stop and take a break and re-sheath your knife.
Okay, so...
Now that we've taken three cuts,
we're gonna take our stick
and we're gonna turn it just a little bit in our hand.
Make sure you have those ice cream cone hands.
Do a thumb check.
Make sure your thumbs
haven't gone out on your stick hand
or out on your knife hand.
Thumb check!
Thumbs in.
I'm gonna take my knife
and bring it to my stick.
Remember, we're gonna carve away
from our body out into the air.
This time we're gonna take three more cuts.
We're gonna count together.
One... Two... Three.
Alright, let's take  a break.
You're gonna point your knife down
and away from your body.
You're gonna pick back up your sheath or your cover
and we're going to re-sheath our
knife as we take a break.
Remember, crab claw pincher on the end.
Watch it go in...
(click)
Perfect, now I'm   ready to take my break.
Again, my name is Megan and we're here
with Trackers Earth.
This has been knife safety for kids.
I hope you've learned something with us today.
And remember, always practice knife safety with an adult first.
Thank you very much and have a wonderful day.
(music)
