{"id":310,"date":"2020-12-06T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/?p=310"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T00:25:54","slug":"holiday-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/2020\/12\/06\/holiday-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Here is a very simple craft to do with your child.\u00a0 This craft encourages fine motor skills, math concepts and language development.<\/p>\n<p>First, have your child cut up some paper stripes.\u00a0 You can either draw\u00a0 some lines for them to cut or they cut then on their own.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree1-e1607283966601-300x263.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"197\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree3-e1607284321598-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree2-e1607285368807-300x284.jpeg\" width=\"205\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, glue the paper stripes on a piece of paper.\u00a0 Ask the children what they think a Christmas tree might look like, is the top bigger or the bottom?\u00a0 Where does the shortest stripe go or where does the longest stripe go?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-316\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree6-e1607286457272-235x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree6-e1607286457272-235x300.jpeg 235w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree6-e1607286457272.jpeg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Decorate the tree using items such as tissue paper, markers, stickers, glitters &#8211; ask your child for ideas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree7-225x300.jpeg\" width=\"180\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For older children, you can either dot the paper stripes or number the stripes.\u00a0 Then ask them to glue the paper stripes in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree4-225x300.jpeg\" width=\"176\" height=\"235\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/files\/2020\/12\/tree8-225x300.jpeg\" width=\"177\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Friends, Here is a very simple craft to do with your child.\u00a0 This craft encourages fine motor skills, math concepts and language development. First, have your child cut up some paper stripes.\u00a0 You can either draw\u00a0 some lines for them to cut or they cut then on their own. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kitchener-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}