{"id":1096,"date":"2009-03-27T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2009-11-27T21:16:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:16:17","slug":"smooth-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Smooth Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Let your child&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0fingers do the reading.<\/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;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0fabric pieces and other materials with different textures<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cardboard<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glue<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0hole punch<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0yarn<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0copies of family pictures<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Cut out pieces of fabric. Glue each to a separate piece of cardboard. Punch holes in the cardboard and tie the pieces together with yarn to make a book.\u00c2\u00a0Encourage your child to touch the different textures, describing how each feels. Have fun making up sounds to represent the texture, saying &#8220;swoosh&#8221; for the smooth feeling of silk, for example.\u00c2\u00a0To extend the activity, make a similar book with pictures of family members. You can &#8220;dress and tress&#8221; these photos, attaching yarn, wool, or silk for hair and cotton and denim pieces for clothing. Bind these and &#8220;read&#8221; them with your child.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0builds tactile awareness<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0fosters language development<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0encourages imagination<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Let your child&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0fingers do the reading. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0fabric pieces and other materials with different textures \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cardboard \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glue \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0hole punch \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0yarn \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0copies of family pictures Cut out pieces of fabric. Glue each to a separate piece of cardboard. Punch holes in the cardboard and tie the pieces together with yarn to make a book.\u00c2\u00a0Encourage your child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,9,65,12],"tags":[99,344,281,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"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=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}