{"id":622,"date":"2009-10-24T19:41:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=622"},"modified":"2009-11-27T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T00:15:03","slug":"leaf-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Leaf Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Story + Art = stART<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Read the story \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notable-Childrens-Books-Younger-Readers\/dp\/0152053042\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255747332&amp;sr=8-1\">Leaf Man<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lois Ehlert. The book is about a leaf man who blows away in the wind and the reader is taken past all sorts of animals like chickens and ducks, past rivers filled with fish and butterflies in the air. All are leaves pieced together to make these awesome images , some are obvious, some take concentration to see the animal among the leaves. Wonderful creative book to welcome the changing seasons and it will leave you trying to find all sorts of things like butterflies, chickens and fish in leaf piles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Gather your materials. You will need 2 large leaves with stems, some cardboard, markers, tape, glue and googly eyes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">Start by drawing a butterfly body on the cardboard. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Have your child color it. While they are coloring snip the stems off the leaves, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lose the stems they will be made into antenna in a bit. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Cut the body out. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Tape the antenna on underside of the head. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Tape the leaves on as wings. Tape works way way better than glue since the leaves can still have some moisture , they can take forever to dry sometimes. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Glue the googly eyes on add a smile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/butterfly_009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623\" title=\"butterfly_009\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/butterfly_009.jpg\" alt=\"butterfly_009\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/butterfly_009.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/butterfly_009-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/butterfly_009-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/butterfly_009-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Story + Art = stART \u00c2\u00a0 Read the story \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leaf Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Lois Ehlert. The book is about a leaf man who blows away in the wind and the reader is taken past all sorts of animals like chickens and ducks, past rivers filled with fish and butterflies in the air. All are leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,7,16,36,15,49],"tags":[239,257,140,113,121,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}