{"id":201,"date":"2009-10-01T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-11-25T20:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T03:56:53","slug":"making-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Making Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You don&#8217;t have to wait until Halloween to have fun with homemade masks!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"margin: auto 0in; 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;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tempera paints<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0water\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paintbrush\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0hole punch\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0safety scissors \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glue\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paper plates\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0yarn\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0markers\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glitter\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talk with your child about her favorite animals and explain that she can make an animal mask. She can refer to a picture of a real animal to help make her mask.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Give your child a paper plate to use as the base.\u00c2\u00a0Measure where the eyeholes will go, and cut out the holes for your child, making them large enough so that she can see safely.\u00c2\u00a0Encourage your child to paint, draw, and use a variety of materials to design her mask.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0After the decorations have dried, attach a large craft stick to the bottom of the mask so she can hold it up to her face.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Invite her to dramatize a favorite story.\u00c2\u00a0<\/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><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Develops fine motor skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Encourages creativity \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Promotes pretend play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to wait until Halloween to have fun with homemade masks! \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tempera paints \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0water\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paintbrush\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0hole punch\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0safety scissors \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glue\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paper plates\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0yarn\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0markers\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0glitter\u00c2\u00a0 Talk with your child about her favorite animals and explain that she can make an animal mask. She can refer to a picture of a real animal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,33,43,16,38,15,12],"tags":[406,271,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}