{"id":1302,"date":"2010-12-14T20:41:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2010-12-14T20:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:41:17","slug":"snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/snow-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We got a wee bit of snow around these parts recently.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I used the opportunity to have a bit of snow fun at the dining room table.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I had my faithful assistant, Victoria, go get bowls full of fresh snow and fill an under-the-bed storage container with it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then I put it on the table with an assortment of little cars and a bulldozer for Alex to do a version of Lonni’s shaving cream snow plow idea from the silly assignment day.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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He plowed for a while but his hands got too cold, so we moved on.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

First I packed down the snow and gave him a big paintbrush, a jar of water (right in the tub, so spills wouldn’t matter) and some watercolor paints.\u00a0 He painted the snow for a bit, but it was a bit tricky.\u00a0 So we moved on.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I put out a muffin tin of water and added primary colors to three of them, and then we made all different colors in the cups.\u00a0 I gave Jack, Victoria and Alex all pipettes (like tiny medicine droppers, I get them in bulk from a science surplus store for science and art fun!) and they squeezed colors to their hearts’ contents.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was a colorful, artistic, crazy bunch of fun.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even I got into the act! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u00a0 highly recommend it next time you have a bit of the white stuff to deal with.\u00a0 If you don’t have any snow, try mixing up anything white in a similar container and dropping colored water on it.\u00a0 Dry rice, pale sand, shaving cream… Lots of things would be fun to experiment with!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In my book, any activity that involves pipettes and colored water is a good idea.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We got a wee bit of snow around these parts recently. I used the opportunity to have a bit of snow fun at the dining room table. I had my faithful assistant, Victoria, go get bowls full of fresh snow and fill an under-the-bed storage container with it. Then I put it on the table…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,27,63,69,84,180,216,237,262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}