{"id":1745,"date":"2011-11-17T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2011-11-17T18:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:34:58","slug":"painted-soap-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/painted-soap-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Soap Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/soap.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2165\" alt=\"Painted soap clouds (A Magical Childhood)\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/soap.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Remember when I recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/12\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-105\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">microwaving a half a bar of Ivory soap<\/a> as a way to make the day magical a couple of months ago?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>We took it a step farther and had the most fun!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>We microwaved the soap for about 30 seconds (set your microwave for about a minute and just stop it when the soap stops expanding) and watched it puff up.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6220\/6340430891_25b1e44a55.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong> Then I gave the kids muffin tins filled with colored water (we used water and food coloring but you could also use liquid watercolors) and eyedroppers.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6233\/6341181312_058d5fc49c.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>They had so much fun!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6112\/6340431961_8a6a1592a1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>I highly recommend it!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6233\/6340432381_0411ab763d.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I recommended microwaving a half a bar of Ivory soap as a way to make the day magical a couple of months ago?\u00a0 We took it a step farther and had the most fun!\u00a0 We microwaved the soap for about 30 seconds (set your microwave for about a minute and just stop it&#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":[22,27,63,69,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}