{"id":298,"date":"2009-08-23T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=298"},"modified":"2009-11-27T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:19:45","slug":"hands-and-feet-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Hands and Feet Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Multiply the fun when your baby paints with a friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/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;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0newspaper or plastic garbage bags<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0large sheet of butcher paper or posterboard<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0washable paints in containers large enough to dip hands and feet in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cover the floor with newspaper or tape down a cut-open garbage bag (this also works well as an outside activity). Set out butcher paper and paints. Invite the children to make a mural with prints of their hands and feet. Demonstrate by putting your own hands in the paint and making a handprint on the paper. \u00c2\u00a0Encourage little ones to take turns pressing their hands and feet on the paper. What kind of patterns can they make if they put their hands or feet together? \u00c2\u00a0When they&#8217;re finished, ask them if they can identify their own hand- and footprints on the mural.<\/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\u00a0Promotes cooperation<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Builds large-motor skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Encourages creativity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiply the fun when your baby paints with a friend. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0newspaper or plastic garbage bags \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0large sheet of butcher paper or posterboard \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0washable paints in containers large enough to dip hands and feet in Cover the floor with newspaper or tape down a cut-open garbage bag (this also works well as an outside activity). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33,12],"tags":[221,223,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}