{"id":520,"date":"2009-06-21T10:21:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-11-27T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T00:14:00","slug":"stacking-fun-with-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Stacking Fun With Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Indoor Fun, Physical Fun, Cause and Effect, Cognition, Counting Concepts, Eye-Hand Coordination, Fine Motor Coordination, Physical Coordination, Size and Shape Discrimination, Spatial Relationships, Stacking, Visual Discrimination <\/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<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Blocks are considered one of the most versatile and favorite toys for young tots. Block playing will inspire your child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imagination and creativity while developing motor skills as he or she experiments with stacking. Count as your child piles on each block for additional learning. Believe it or not, blocks are your child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first exposure to geometry &#8211; squares and cubes. How many squares make up a cube?<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/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<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Demonstrate to your child how to stack three of four blocks on top of each other.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Have your child build two towers three or four blocks high with about a foot of space between them. Make a paper bridge across the towers that your child can push a car under.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Get down on the floor and build right alongside your child. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be surprised how much fun you have letting those creative juices flow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indoor Fun, Physical Fun, Cause and Effect, Cognition, Counting Concepts, Eye-Hand Coordination, Fine Motor Coordination, Physical Coordination, Size and Shape Discrimination, Spatial Relationships, Stacking, Visual Discrimination \u00c2\u00a0 Blocks are considered one of the most versatile and favorite toys for young tots. Block playing will inspire your child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imagination and creativity while developing motor skills as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,58,37,38,15,9,12],"tags":[306,236,284,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}