{"id":435,"date":"2009-07-17T14:19:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-11-26T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T21:21:31","slug":"pine-cone-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Pine Cone Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<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;\">pine cones<br \/>\nacorn caps<br \/>\nother natural materials (acorns, leaves, moss, twigs, bark)<br \/>\npom poms<br \/>\nglue<br \/>\nshoe box<br \/>\nconstruction paper<br \/>\nart supplies<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports fine-motor development<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0encourages creative play <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With your child, collect pinecones (or you can purchase them at a nursery), along with leaves, twigs, and other &#8220;natural&#8221; materials. \u00c2\u00a0To make a pine cone creature, your child can glue a pom pom to one end of the pine cone, make wings out of leaves or arms out of twigs, eyes out of acorn caps or construction paper, a nose out of a leaf or construction paper, and so on. \u00c2\u00a0Glue acorn caps to the bottom of the creature to make feet (and to keep the creature more stable).\u00c2\u00a0Decorate the inside of a shoebox with paint or construction paper and leaves, twigs, and other natural items to create a habitat for the creatures.\u00c2\u00a0Ask your child to name his pine cone creatures. The two of you can make up stories and adventures for this new species!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Learning benefits:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pine cones acorn caps other natural materials (acorns, leaves, moss, twigs, bark) pom poms glue shoe box construction paper art supplies \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports fine-motor development \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0encourages creative play With your child, collect pinecones (or you can purchase them at a nursery), along with leaves, twigs, and other &#8220;natural&#8221; materials. \u00c2\u00a0To make a pine cone creature, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,7,44,12],"tags":[95,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}