{"id":327,"date":"2009-08-14T20:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=327"},"modified":"2009-11-26T01:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T08:26:01","slug":"me-and-my-purple-crayon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Me and My Purple Crayon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">See what flows from your toddler&#8217;s imagination with this colorful, book-inspired activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<div class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">What you need:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/span><\/strong> by Crockett Johnson<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Drawing paper<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Chunky purple crayon<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Finger paint<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Cuddle up with your child and the classic story, Harold and the Purple Crayon. Reread the story several times to familiarize her with the text.\u00c2\u00a0Talk about Harold and how he used his wishes and a crayon to create his wonderful purple adventure. Offer your child a sheet of drawing paper and a chunky, easy-to-grasp purple crayon. Ask her to close her eyes to imagine an adventure, and invite her to begin drawing. (She might want to dictate the words of an accompanying story.)\u00c2\u00a0To take the color exploration further, set out cups of red, blue, and white finger paint. Invite your child to experiment with color mixing to create different shades of purple \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and new adventures.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Learning benefits:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Encourages creativity and imagination<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Introduces colors and color-mixing<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Supports pre-literacy skills<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See what flows from your toddler&#8217;s imagination with this colorful, book-inspired activity. \u00c2\u00a0 What you need: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Drawing paper \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Chunky purple crayon \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Finger paint Cuddle up with your child and the classic story, Harold and the Purple Crayon. Reread the story several times to familiarize her with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,33,35,49,12],"tags":[99,288,397,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}