{"id":236,"date":"2009-09-24T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/24\/easy-sand-art\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T22:42:00","slug":"easy-sand-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/easy-sand-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Sand Art!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Magical Mama Ellen shared this fun and easy craft that we did around here years ago and I had forgotten about.&nbsp; I think we just used ours as homemade glitter though, and layered in jars sounds even more fun!&nbsp; I do remember that my girls loved stirring the salt with the chalk and watching it &quot;magically&quot; turn colors.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and do be sure to use styrofoam for the bowl\/cup or in it to scrape and stir against (you can recycle something).&nbsp; We don&#8217;t usually have styrofoam but I remember that other materials were too smooth to make the magic happen!<\/p>\n<p>She wrote:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><em><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">I wanted to share a craft with you that I did yesterday with my 5 year old and her friend who is 4.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> Materials needed:<br \/> Salt<br \/> Baby food jars with lids<br \/> Colored chalk<br \/> Small cups or bowls (I used styrofoam cups)<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> Pour small amounts of salt into the cup or bowl.&nbsp; Start stirring it with your chosen color of chalk.&nbsp; The salt will soon begin to take on the color of the chalk you are using.&nbsp; The longer you stir, the deeper the color becomes.&nbsp; <br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> Once satisfied with the color, pour the salt into the baby food jar.&nbsp; Continue to layer the colors of salt in the babyfood jar until it is full, top off with white salt if needed.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> This is an easy way to make &quot;sand&quot; art for kids.&nbsp; My daughter and her friend loved it.&nbsp; If you have super glue or a hot glue gun, you can run a rim of glue around the top of the jar before puttin gon the lid to ensure the lid doesn&#8217;t come off.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Ellen!<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magical Mama Ellen shared this fun and easy craft that we did around here years ago and I had forgotten about.&nbsp; I think we just used ours as homemade glitter though, and layered in jars sounds even more fun!&nbsp; I do remember that my girls loved stirring the salt with the chalk and watching 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":[27,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}