{"id":193,"date":"2011-09-20T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigbrownmonster.wordpress.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-10-17T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T12:40:57","slug":"thread-some-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Thread-some-creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have lots of cardboard scraps around?<\/p>\n<p>Just cut them up into odd shapes and sizes, punch some holes around the edges and find some craft twine\/ shoelaces \/ nylon threading stuff. You may wanna get kiddo to paint or stick colour paper onto the cardboard pieces for the fun of it before getting him\/her to thread through the holes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6172\/6166366620_75577ce880.jpg\" alt=\"thread\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s open-ended play so let their (and most importantly yours) imagination run loose. Kiddo actually calls this a parrot and &#8216;walks&#8217; it (pulling it along the floor will be a more appropriate description) like a puppy.<\/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>Have lots of cardboard scraps around? Just cut them up into odd shapes and sizes, punch some holes around the edges and find some craft twine\/ shoelaces \/ nylon threading stuff. You may wanna get kiddo to paint or stick colour paper onto the cardboard pieces for the fun of it before getting him\/her to [&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\/193"}],"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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}