{"id":167,"date":"2009-07-15T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/15\/busy-work-doodle-assignments\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:46:00","slug":"busy-work-doodle-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/busy-work-doodle-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Work: Doodle Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\"><strong>I&#8217;m a big fan of busywork for kids.&nbsp; Bored kids get into trouble.&nbsp; Busy kids are easier to keep happy!&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one way I keep Jack occupied while I&#8217;m busy with Alex or we&#8217;re waiting at the doctor or just buying time so I relax a bit.&nbsp; Doodle assignments!<\/p>\n<p>I have him find some paper and any kind of pens, crayons or pencils and then I give him a creative assignment to draw.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some examples for all ages and all kinds of kids:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Draw a brand new kind of animal that nobody has ever seen before.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a dream castle in the sky.<\/li>\n<li>Draw whatever kind of robot you want, with features to do whatever nifty things you can think up.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a fantasy wedding dress.<\/li>\n<li>Draw the winning entry in the &quot;Wackiest Hairstyle Contest.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Draw a fighter pilot uniform from the year 2200.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a really silly cat.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a new kind of flower.<\/li>\n<li>Draw the world&#8217;s coolest hamster habitat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jack&#8217;s version of an alien, with as many eyes, arms and antennae as he wanted.&nbsp; He named him Bob.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2453\/3704904464_f351d98df6.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of busywork for kids.&nbsp; Bored kids get into trouble.&nbsp; Busy kids are easier to keep happy!&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42 Here&#8217;s one way I keep Jack occupied while I&#8217;m busy with Alex or we&#8217;re waiting at the doctor or just buying time so I relax a bit.&nbsp; Doodle assignments! I have him find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[32,49,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}