{"id":548,"date":"2009-06-10T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-11-27T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T22:23:24","slug":"tub-time-sponge-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Tub Time Sponge Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Cardboard or card stock<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Pencil<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Scissors<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">2 new 1\/2-inch-thick kitchen sponges, in different colors<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Washable marker<\/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;\">Make a template. To do so, trace the perimeter of the sponge onto the cardboard, and then draw a simple shape in the center of that rectangle, leaving at least a 1\/2-inch border between the sides of the rectangle and your shape.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>To be sure that a hand-drawn shape is symmetrical (so it fits easily in the sponges), first fold the cardboard so that the rectangle is split in two, then draw half of your shape against the fold (the same technique you would use to make a heart-shaped valentine). Cut out the shape. Wash the sponges in soapy water, rinse them, and wring them out well.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Now center the template on one sponge and trace around it with the marker. Cut out the shape (fold the sponge to make the first snip).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Repeat with the second sponge, then switch the shapes for a pair of two-color puzzles. Make as many pairs as you like.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardboard or card stock Pencil Scissors 2 new 1\/2-inch-thick kitchen sponges, in different colors Washable marker \u00c2\u00a0 Make a template. To do so, trace the perimeter of the sponge onto the cardboard, and then draw a simple shape in the center of that rectangle, leaving at least a 1\/2-inch border between the sides of 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":[31,32,26,48,16,15,12],"tags":[403,229,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}