{"id":2851,"date":"2019-11-01T22:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2019-11-01T22:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:02:47","slug":"making-mushroom-spore-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/making-mushroom-spore-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Mushroom Spore Prints!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Have you and your kiddos ever made spore prints?\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s easy to do and so fun &#8212; not to mention a bit educational!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/01\/making-mushroom-spore-prints\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2793\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2793\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood.jpg\" alt=\"Spore prints! A Magical Childhood\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/spore-prints-a-magical-childhood-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/wildkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/spore-fiona-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>Miss Fiona and I made some spore prints this month from wild mushrooms that big sister Rhiannon (Anna to you old time readers) found while hiking in the woods with our dog, Moose.\u00a0 The oyster mushrooms made white spore prints that looked beautiful on black construction paper, while the mysterious others (tentatively identified by hubby but I forgot what he thought they were) gave us some brown and grayish ones.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/01\/making-mushroom-spore-prints\/november-wild-kids-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2791\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2791\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/november-wild-kids-cover.jpg?w=232\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/november-wild-kids-cover.jpg 816w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/november-wild-kids-cover-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/november-wild-kids-cover-791x1024.jpg 791w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/november-wild-kids-cover-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Spore prints from other mushrooms can be green, pink and more!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Mushroom hunters use spore prints to identify mushrooms, but they&#8217;re also just really fun to make.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I put instructions on how to make them in <a style=\"color:#000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/wildkids\/2019\/10\/31\/wild-kids-magazine-for-november\/\">this month&#8217;s Wild Kids Magazine<\/a>, a free nature magazine that I&#8217;ve been putting out this year.\u00a0 You can read it and find out more about spore prints there.\u00a0 Make sure to talk to kids about mushroom safety, and wash hands afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Have a magical week!<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you and your kiddos ever made spore prints?\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to do and so fun &#8212; not to mention a bit educational! Miss Fiona and I made some spore prints this month from wild mushrooms that big sister Rhiannon (Anna to you old time readers) found while hiking in the woods with our dog,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[32,85,151,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}