{"id":1066,"date":"2009-03-30T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2009-11-27T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:14:43","slug":"bring-nursery-rhymes-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Bring Nursery Rhymes to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">A simple homemade doll gives greater meaning to familiar words.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0woman&#8217;s ribbed sock<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0shredded paper or batting (for stuffing)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0thick thread<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0craft items such as yarn, ribbons, sequins, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read a book of nursery rhymes and discuss the characters.\u00c2\u00a0Make your own Humpty-Dumpty! Flatten the sock so that the sole of the foot is face down. The toe end of the sock will become the body, and the ankle ribbing will become the legs.\u00c2\u00a0Cut ribbing in half to create flaps that become the legs. Leave about half an inch of ribbing at the top.\u00c2\u00a0Fill the sock with batting to form an egg shape &#8211; a great job for your young helper.\u00c2\u00a0Using simple, wide stitching, sew up the flaps. Start at the bottom of one (the foot) and stitch up toward the body, over to the other leg, and down. \u00c2\u00a0Decorate your Humpty with art materials. \u00c2\u00a0Experiment with making dolls for other favorite nursery rhyme characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports dramatic play<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0builds eye-hand coordination<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0develops phonemic awareness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple homemade doll gives greater meaning to familiar words. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0woman&#8217;s ribbed sock \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0shredded paper or batting (for stuffing) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0thick thread \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0craft items such as yarn, ribbons, sequins, etc. Read a book of nursery rhymes and discuss the characters.\u00c2\u00a0Make your own Humpty-Dumpty! Flatten the sock so that the sole of the foot is face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,43,39,34,15,49,12],"tags":[344,401,396,343,294,83,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}