{"id":2932,"date":"2022-10-09T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:11:58","slug":"pumpkin-pounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/pumpkin-pounding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Pounding!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again.  For like 20 years (yes, I am getting old!) I&#8217;ve been telling you to do pumpkin pounding!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/10\/img_1845.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/10\/img_1845.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2944\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I told you back in 2009.  I swear I was 20 at the time.  \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s that time of year again, and few things are as fun as pounding pumpkins.\u00a0 Gather up some golf tees and a mallet (or a hammer and nails for older kids), and let each child pound the tees into a pumpkin.\u00a0 Push the tees or nails in a bit to get them started, so the kids don\u2019t have to hold them and risk pounding fingers (you can also hold them in place with a clothespin instead of fingers).\u00a0 They can do patterns or just pound randomly.\u00a0 This is a fabulously satisfying sensory integration activity for toddlers to teens.\u00a0 It\u2019s silly fun!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And another time&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Poke, pound, pester and pulverize your leftover pumpkins!\u00a0 Have you tried this yet?\u00a0 I\u2019ve been telling you to do it for years and it\u2019s such outrageous fun.\u00a0 Make designs, spell out words, nail pretty leaves in patterns, try pounding different objects in, pull the pegs out and leave cool hole patterns and just pound them\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/10\/img_1847.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/10\/img_1847.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2937\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. For like 20 years (yes, I am getting old!) I&#8217;ve been telling you to do pumpkin pounding! Here&#8217;s what I told you back in 2009. I swear I was 20 at the time. \ud83d\ude09 It\u2019s that time of year again, and few things are as fun as pounding pumpkins.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,12],"tags":[27,90,103,150,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932"}],"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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}