{"id":1070,"date":"2008-10-29T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2009-10-31T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:45:48","slug":"a-jack-o-lantern-mosaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"A jack-o-lantern mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">What do to with paint swatches?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Today we used them to make a jack-o-lantern mosaic. First, I drew an outline of a jack-o-lantern on a big piece of paper. I set out paint swatches in shades of orange, green and black. I cut and glued on a few, so the children would get the idea of what colors went where.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6204.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1071\" title=\"IMG_6204\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6204.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_6204\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6204.JPG 1200w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6204-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6204-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6204-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">In the beginning, it was a little tricky for some of the children to visualize what in the world we were trying to make, but as the jack-o-lantern filled in, they all caught on. It was kind of like working on a big puzzle, each child stopped by the mosaic throughout the day, pausing to cut and glue on a piece or two (or twenty), and then went along with his or her daily business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6233.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072\" title=\"IMG_6233\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6233.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_6233\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6233.JPG 1200w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6233-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6233-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_6233-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do to with paint swatches?\u00c2\u00a0 Today we used them to make a jack-o-lantern mosaic. First, I drew an outline of a jack-o-lantern on a big piece of paper. I set out paint swatches in shades of orange, green and black. I cut and glued on a few, so the children would get the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,69,54,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-crafts","category-green-recycling","category-halloween","category-kindergarten","category-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}