{"id":169,"date":"2009-07-18T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/18\/virtual-sand-art\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:17:00","slug":"virtual-sand-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/virtual-sand-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Sand Art!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\"><strong>Here&#8217;s another fun web site to play with!&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisissand.com\/\">Thisissand<\/a> is a simple little program that lets you create pictures with grains of virtual sand that fall from the cursor.&nbsp; You change colors as you like and move the cursor around to plot your picture.&nbsp; When you&#8217;re finished, you can submit it to their gallery.&nbsp; There is a gentle sound of sand falling as you &quot;pour&quot; and the whole thing is very calming!&nbsp; My kids made some very elaborate pictures with this today.<\/p>\n<p>(Hint: Click on the tiny gray box in the upper left corner for instructions.)<\/p>\n<p>If you want to follow it with some real life crafts, put some salt in a jar with a few drops of food coloring and have the kids shake it until it&#8217;s well blended.&nbsp; Spread it on a foil-lined cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10 minutes and cool.&nbsp; Do up a few colors and then let them use glue and paint brushes to create a sand art picture of their own.&nbsp; You can also make layered &quot;sand&quot; jars or use this as really inexpensive glitter!<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend!<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another fun web site to play with!&nbsp; Thisissand is a simple little program that lets you create pictures with grains of virtual sand that fall from the cursor.&nbsp; You change colors as you like and move the cursor around to plot your picture.&nbsp; When you&#8217;re finished, you can submit it to their gallery.&nbsp; There&#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":[27,68,85,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}