{"id":727,"date":"2014-11-02T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/?p=727"},"modified":"2014-11-11T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:47:36","slug":"ziplock-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Ziplock Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo (49)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-48.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-48.jpg\" alt=\"photo (48)\" width=\"189\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try this little idea I found by a designer\/art instructor at Pratt Institute in New York. It&#8217;s a way to engage your child in using their imagination and connecting with them when they are at school. I tried one on Friday and both my daughter and son had fun. I leave the words out for my son as he&#8217;s not reading yet.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is: quick sketches and unfinished stories on my end on a scrap of paper. They finish the drawing and write a finished sentence\/thought.<\/p>\n<p>They both showed interest so I&#8217;ll see how it goes! and how long I can keep it up!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update: Here is one of the ones Edzea brought home &amp; changed completely!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo (49)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-49-e1414967028263.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2858-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2858\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2858-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2858-716x1024.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try this little idea I found by a designer\/art instructor at Pratt Institute in New York. It&#8217;s a way to engage your child in using their imagination and connecting with them when they are at school. I tried one on Friday and both my daughter and son had fun. I leave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}