{"id":344,"date":"2009-08-07T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-11-26T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T20:18:50","slug":"sand-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Sand Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/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;\">sand<br \/>\nglue<br \/>\ncardboard<br \/>\nempty salt or oatmeal container<br \/>\ntape<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prepare by poking holes in one end of an empty salt or oatmeal container. Fill with sand, and seal up the opposite end with tape.\u00c2\u00a0Use glue to make a design on the cardboard. This could involve geometric shapes, pictures (such as a house), or simple patterns.\u00c2\u00a0Help your toddler shake sand onto the cardboard. After the glue is covered, pick up the cardboard, and shake off the excess glue.\u00c2\u00a0After the glue dries, discuss the shapes with your child. What can she find? Straight lines? Circles?<\/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\u00a0develops fine-motor skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0enhances creativity<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports language development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 sand glue cardboard empty salt or oatmeal container tape Prepare by poking holes in one end of an empty salt or oatmeal container. Fill with sand, and seal up the opposite end with tape.\u00c2\u00a0Use glue to make a design on the cardboard. This could involve geometric shapes, pictures (such as a house), or simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,15,12],"tags":[95,293,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}