{"id":17,"date":"2009-03-05T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/05\/shopping-sanity-saver-paint-chip-hunts\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:03:00","slug":"shopping-sanity-saver-paint-chip-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/shopping-sanity-saver-paint-chip-hunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Sanity Saver: Paint Chip Hunts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Here&#8217;s an idea we adapted from an idea in an old Girl Scout handbook.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Next time you need to keep the kids happy and occupied on a shopping trip, hand out a few paint sample cards and ask them to find matches during the trip.&nbsp; You can pick the samples up in the paint section of larger stores (buy some paint during one of those stops to thank them) and keep a few extras in your purse or wallet.<\/p>\n<p>As you shop, the kids can hold the sample cards up to various products and try to find perfect matches.&nbsp; Younger kids can try to match more basic, primary colors while older kids can have trickier hues like mauve!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea we adapted from an idea in an old Girl Scout handbook.&nbsp; Next time you need to keep the kids happy and occupied on a shopping trip, hand out a few paint sample cards and ask them to find matches during the trip.&nbsp; You can pick the samples up in the paint section&#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":[103,196,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}