{"id":175,"date":"2008-11-03T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-11-28T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T19:00:08","slug":"puzzling-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">colorful cereal boxes<br \/>\nscissors<br \/>\nsmall plastic baggies<br \/>\ncontact paper (optional)<br \/>\nfamily photos or photos from magazines (optional)<br \/>\nshoebox or other cardboard (optional)<br \/>\nglue (optional)<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0develops problem-solving skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports fine-motor development <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0Cut the front and back panels off of a large cereal box.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00c2\u00a0Cut the panels into three, four, or five pieces to make a puzzle. Store the pieces for each puzzle in their own plastic bag.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00c2\u00a0Invite your child to put together the puzzle!<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00c2\u00a0You can also use family photos or pictures of familiar objects (such as animals or vehicles) to make puzzles. Glue the pictures onto cardboard. Once the glue has dried, cut out the puzzle pieces.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00c2\u00a0Cover the pieces with contact paper to help them last longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Learning benefits: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>colorful cereal boxes scissors small plastic baggies contact paper (optional) family photos or photos from magazines (optional) shoebox or other cardboard (optional) glue (optional) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0develops problem-solving skills \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports fine-motor development 1.\u00c2\u00a0Cut the front and back panels off of a large cereal box. 2.\u00c2\u00a0Cut the panels into three, four, or five pieces to make a puzzle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,39,38,15,12],"tags":[161,281,410,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}