{"id":238,"date":"2009-09-07T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-11-27T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:19:36","slug":"have-a-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Have a Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Try this game with your baby&#8217;s next play date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">balls of different sizes<br \/>\nmedium-size cardboard box (about 12 inches long)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seat the babies on the floor. Give them all of the balls. Help them to pick up the different balls and roll them to each other. \u00c2\u00a0Prop up the cardboard box to make a ramp. Show the babies how you roll a ball down it. Encourage them to do the same.\u00c2\u00a0Help each baby roll a ball at the same time to see which one goes further. Let them have fun seeing how high the balls bounce and how far and fast they can roll them.<\/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\u00a0builds large- and small-motor skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0promotes cooperation<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0introduces concept of cause and effect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Try this game with your baby&#8217;s next play date. \u00c2\u00a0 balls of different sizes medium-size cardboard box (about 12 inches long) Seat the babies on the floor. Give them all of the balls. Help them to pick up the different balls and roll them to each other. \u00c2\u00a0Prop up the cardboard box to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,38],"tags":[221,273,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}