{"id":10507,"date":"2016-01-21T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2016-01-21T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:58:26","slug":"140366-dog-and-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/01\/21\/140366-dog-and-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"140\/366: Dog and Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I arrived to pick SteelyKid up the other night, she and her friends were light-saber fighting with long balloons, which is fairly typical of that bunch. While I gathered her stuff up, though, she stopped and twisted her balloon into an animal shape:<\/p>\n

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SteelyKid’s balloon dog, and The Pip’s clay volcano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She got a “How to Make Balloon Animals” kit a few years ago, but she doesn’t often do anything with it. So I was pretty impressed that she did this completely from memory. (Of course, I’m easily impressed when it comes to my own kids doing stuff…)<\/p>\n

The balloon dog (we’ll call it a dog….) doesn’t quite<\/em> stand up on its own, so it’s propped on one of The Pip’s class art projects. They’re working their way through the alphabet in pre-school, and the letter of the day was “V” a few days back, so they made volcanos out of clay. And did the baking-soda-and-vinegar “eruption” thing, which made a huge impression.<\/p>\n

So, there’s the latest in kid art…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I arrived to pick SteelyKid up the other night, she and her friends were light-saber fighting with long balloons, which is fairly typical of that bunch. While I gathered her stuff up, though, she stopped and twisted her balloon into an animal shape: She got a “How to Make Balloon Animals” kit a few… Continue reading 140\/366: Dog and Volcano<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}