{"id":1213,"date":"2009-03-17T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2009-11-27T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:30:05","slug":"puffy-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Puffy Paintings"},"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;\">This hands-on paint alternative is perfect for younger children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;\">\n<div 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\u00a01 cup each flour, salt, and water<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0empty plastic squeeze bottles<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0watercolor paints<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0spoon and bowl for each color<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cardboard squares or heavy paper<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">With your child, mix flour, salt, and water in a bowl. Stir in paint until the mixture is the desired color. Encourage your child to create several different colors of squeezy paint.\u00c2\u00a0Pour the paint into a squeeze bottle.\u00c2\u00a0Invite your child to squeeze the paint from the bottle onto cardboard or heavy paper. \u00c2\u00a0Encourage her to experiment with different designs, as well as letters, names, or words. \u00c2\u00a0Allow the puffy paintings to dry until they are hard and sparkly, usually overnight. Invite your child to close her eyes and touch a letter with her fingers. Can she guess what letter it is?<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports letter recognition<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0encourages creativity<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0develops tactile awareness<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hands-on paint alternative is perfect for younger children. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 cup each flour, salt, and water \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0empty plastic squeeze bottles \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0watercolor paints \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0spoon and bowl for each color \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cardboard squares or heavy paper With your child, mix flour, salt, and water in a bowl. Stir in paint until the mixture is the desired color. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,15,9,65],"tags":[134,95,167,168,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}