{"id":176,"date":"2011-09-20T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T12:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigbrownmonster.wordpress.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:20:18","slug":"egg-tray-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Egg Tray Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s spring and the flowers are blooming. Kiddo\u2019s excited with the prospect of seeing the blooms, perhaps she remembered what it\u2019d been like months back. So this project began life as a simple \u2018draw and make flowers\u2019 exercise.<\/p>\n<p>All you need is a paper egg tray, colour paper, ice cream sticks, sticky tape, scissors and markers. Kiddo decided on the 3 colours of her flower patch, helped sticking the paper cutouts onto the ice cream sticks and scribbled\/\u2019coloured in\u2019 parts of every flower (for reasons known to her, red marker for red flowers, blue marker for purple flowers and brown marker for blue flowers).<\/p>\n<p>Then add in the element of matching numbers into the designed play. Numbers are written behind each flower, stumps on the eggtray are tagged and to help kiddo further, dots are added to the leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6174\/6163434074_9dabaab603.jpg\" alt=\"flowers1\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\nFlowers can be tucked away nicely into the tray after play.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6159\/6163433952_4b52633741.jpg\" alt=\"flowers2\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6179\/6162898687_2c6aea1d3f.jpg\" alt=\"flowers3\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/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>It\u2019s spring and the flowers are blooming. Kiddo\u2019s excited with the prospect of seeing the blooms, perhaps she remembered what it\u2019d been like months back. So this project began life as a simple \u2018draw and make flowers\u2019 exercise. All you need is a paper egg tray, colour paper, ice cream sticks, sticky tape, scissors and [&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\/176"}],"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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}