{"id":1309,"date":"2012-02-21T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-10-17T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T12:42:34","slug":"paper-beads-tweddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Paper Beads Tweddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making paper beads is not a girly thing.<br \/>\nIn fact it&#8217;s a rather challenging thing to do for a 3 year old cos it&#8217;s not easy for them to roll fine tight beads.<br \/>\nSo here&#8217;s a quick way to make a simple &#8216;tweedling&#8217; tool with no more than an ice cream stick and a paper clip.<br \/>\nThe beads will have bigger holes and this allows them to thread with greater ease.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s also an exercise to finetune motor skills and learn about sequences.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7040\/6915999009_edc1eb5859.jpg\" alt=\"Paper bead tweedler\" width=\"500\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7176\/6915999267_0c1fdd1295.jpg\" alt=\"Paper bead tweedler\" width=\"500\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7050\/6915999505_e5a3719ccd.jpg\" alt=\"Paper bead tweedler\" width=\"436\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7052\/6916028279_52ba706102.jpg\" alt=\"beader\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Should be a fun thing to do with your kid though they may need help learning to roll, tape\/glue and finish up each bead.<br \/>\nTry to get them to make for mums\/dad\/grands\/that special someone and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be up to the task.<br \/>\nOf course there&#8217;s lots of room for playing dressups here too. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt;<a title=\"DIY Toys\" href=\"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?page_id=9\"> Back to DIY Toys<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making paper beads is not a girly thing. In fact it&#8217;s a rather challenging thing to do for a 3 year old cos it&#8217;s not easy for them to roll fine tight beads. So here&#8217;s a quick way to make a simple &#8216;tweedling&#8217; tool with no more than an ice cream stick and a paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}