{"id":1084,"date":"2009-11-28T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2009-11-25T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T02:24:05","slug":"glorious-goop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Glorious Goop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Intrigue your toddler with this sticky stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<div class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00bd cup water<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0food coloring<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cornstarch (one handful)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0plastic plate or bowl<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Add a few drops of food coloring to the water.\u00c2\u00a0Place approximately one handful of cornstarch on a plastic plate or bowl. Talk with your child about how the cornstarch feels. Is it soft or hard? Wet or dry?\u00c2\u00a0Slowly add the water to the cornstarch and stir. It can be hard to stir, so add more water if needed. The final consistency should be slightly thicker than wet sand. \u00c2\u00a0How does it feel now? Is it sticky? \u00c2\u00a0What happens when you pick up a handful of goop and squeeze it? (It feels almost like a something solid.) What happens when you open your hand? (It drips through your fingers like a liquid.)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0encourages language development<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports observation skills<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrigue your toddler with this sticky stuff. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00bd cup water \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0food coloring \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cornstarch (one handful) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0plastic plate or bowl Add a few drops of food coloring to the water.\u00c2\u00a0Place approximately one handful of cornstarch on a plastic plate or bowl. Talk with your child about how the cornstarch feels. Is it soft or hard? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,9,44,65,12],"tags":[167,241],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-3-years","category-language","category-project","category-science","category-senses","category-toddler","tag-concoctions","tag-letter-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","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=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}