{"id":7040,"date":"2011-10-22T07:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2011-10-22T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:27:06","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the girls had a day off from school and wanted to spend the entire day outside.\u00a0 To coerce them into coming back inside (I desperately needed to do laundry), I offered a painting project.\u00a0 I usually give them a canvas and let them have at it.\u00a0 Today, I decided to put my “teacher skills” to work and I gave them a specific assignment.\u00a0 At one point, Mary Clare told me I was “acting like Ms. Chure!”<\/p>\n

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First, we had to find inspiration.\u00a0 I asked the girls to gather a few fallen leaves.<\/p>\n

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Being the water creatures that they are, they headed straight to the dock, gathering all sorts of lily pads.<\/p>\n

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Which to my surprise, were also changing colors.<\/p>\n

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Our little creek house<\/p>\n

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After a little walk around our house, we had all the leaves we needed.<\/p>\n

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Mary Clare’s finished painting with her inspiration<\/p>\n

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McCanless’s finished painting and inspiration<\/p>\n

I was quite pleased with both of their work, given that I only asked them to use the leaf as a starting point.\u00a0 I didn’t help at all with either one of their paintings.\u00a0 I guess they are both at a very literal stage of development and chose to draw and paint their exact leaf.\u00a0\u00a0 Still, I think they both did pretty well with their drawings and colors.\u00a0 Love my little artists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the girls had a day off from school and wanted to spend the entire day outside.\u00a0 To coerce them into coming back inside (I desperately needed to do laundry), I offered a painting project.\u00a0 I usually give them a canvas and let them have at it.\u00a0 Today, I decided to put my “teacher skills” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}