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shoebox Talk to your child about different outdoor environments and seasons. Help him pick a place he has been to or that he is interested in, such as the ocean or the desert.\u00c2\u00a0Cut out a piece of construction paper the size of the bottom of a shoebox. The paper should be a color that will reflect the scene (white for snow, blue for underwater, and so on). Ask your child to draw the scene and then glue the paper to the bottom of the shoebox.\u00c2\u00a0Turn the shoebox on its side so you can look in the opening to see the background scene. Ask your child to create additional pieces with clay or to glue small toys in the box to complete the diorama.<\/p>\n Learning benefits:<\/span><\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0 shoebox construction paper (different colors, depending on the scene) art supplies clay small toys that reflect the environment glue pictures of different outdoor environments (optional) Talk to your child about different outdoor environments and seasons. Help him pick a place he has been to or that he is interested in, such as the ocean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16,15,9],"tags":[179,277,276,402,278,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nconstruction paper (different colors, depending on the scene)
\nart supplies
\nclay
\nsmall toys that reflect the environment
\nglue
\npictures of different outdoor environments (optional)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0encourages imagination and creativity
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0builds small-motor skills
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0introduces social studies concepts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"