{"id":525,"date":"2022-01-17T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/?p=525"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:47:12","slug":"toddler-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/2022\/01\/17\/toddler-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Toddlers love to move and often their attention span is short. \u00a0They love to put things in and especially dump things out.\u00a0They are little scientists who love to experiment with cause and effect. \u00a0I have lots of toddlers at StrongStart this year so I just finished making \u00a0a toy that was fast to make, cheap and engaging.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-528 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/Toddler-toy-blog-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/Toddler-toy-blog-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/Toddler-toy-blog-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/Toddler-toy-blog-2-676x507.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/Toddler-toy-blog-2.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They love putting the metal juice lid in the slot and the sound it makes hitting the bottom of the tin. \u00a0They also love taking the lid off and dumping it out. \u00a0Maybe you have a toddler, care for one or need a gift to give one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what you will need:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coffee tin (empty and clean)<\/li>\n<li>felt or paper<\/li>\n<li>metal frozen juice lids<\/li>\n<li>Glue (I like using my glue gun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-526 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-for-blog-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-for-blog-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-for-blog-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-for-blog-676x507.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-for-blog.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Cut a slit in the top of the lid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Glue on paper or felt to cover the outside of the tin. (I discovered my coffee tin I could take off the paper and it was beautifully silver underneath!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Decorate the metal lids and can (optional)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-532 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-3-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-3-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-3-676x507.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/files\/2022\/01\/toddler-toy-3.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Toddlers love to move and often their attention span is short. \u00a0They love to put things in and especially dump things out.\u00a0They are little scientists who love to experiment with cause and effect. \u00a0I have lots of toddlers at StrongStart this year so I just finished making \u00a0a toy that was fast to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/second-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}