{"id":222,"date":"2009-09-11T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-11-25T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T05:04:17","slug":"think-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Think Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Invite your child to explore patterns, colors, and textures through these easy activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">washable finger paints<br \/>\nwashable tempera paint<br \/>\npaintbrushes<br \/>\nblocks<br \/>\npipe cleaners<br \/>\nglue<br \/>\nold shoes<br \/>\npaper<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Finger Paint Prints.<\/strong> Pour one or two colors of washable finger paint onto a tabletop tray. Invite your child to use his fingers to mix the colors and draw in the paint. Explain that he will make a print of his drawing. When he is finished mixing the colors, help him lay a sheet of paper on top of the painted surface. Press down gently, lift, and let dry. How is the paper print different from what the paint looked like in the tray?<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Block Prints.<\/strong> Make a block stamp. First, bend pipe stems into zigzags, swirls, lines, or other shapes. Then glue them onto the bottom of an old wooden block. Place washable tempera paint on some plastic plates or trays. Invite your child to dip the stamp into the paint and print onto the paper. She might enjoy making a repeating pattern\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0or just a fun hodgepodge!<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Shoe Prints<\/strong>. Roll out some mural paper. Give your child paintbrushes, washable paint, and a smock. Invite him to paint the bottom of an old pair of shoes\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d ideally some with an interesting pattern on the sole. Press the soles onto the paper. Try experimenting with several colors at a time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Learning benefits:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Encourages creative expression<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Develops fine-motor skills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invite your child to explore patterns, colors, and textures through these easy activities. \u00c2\u00a0 washable finger paints washable tempera paint paintbrushes blocks pipe cleaners glue old shoes paper 1.\u00c2\u00a0Finger Paint Prints. Pour one or two colors of washable finger paint onto a tabletop tray. Invite your child to use his fingers to mix the colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22,16,15,12],"tags":[162,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}