{"id":1885,"date":"2009-12-25T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2009-12-25T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:56:45","slug":"1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/1885\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Sculptures-Winter Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nice-and-icy-winter-games-photo-420-0198-FFA12171X-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nice and Icy Winter Game\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/dt>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #99cc00\"><strong>Nice and Icy Winter Fun<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"border-top-style: dashed;border-right-style: none;border-bottom-style: none;border-left-style: none;border-width: initial;border-color: initial;margin-top: 10px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 10px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;color: #606060;line-height: 18px;clear: both;border-top-width: 1px;border-top-color: #dedede;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic';font-size: medium\"><strong>Looking for some winter day fun over the holiday vacation? \u00a0Once the first snow hits, this will be a great snowy day activity.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-top-style: dashed;border-right-style: none;border-bottom-style: none;border-left-style: none;border-width: initial;border-color: initial;margin-top: 10px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 10px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #606060;line-height: 18px;clear: both;border-top-width: 1px;border-top-color: #dedede\"><span style=\"color: #ab720f;font-weight: bold;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">What is it?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #99cc00\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">An art project involving icicles and frozen blocks of colored ice<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #606060;line-height: 18px;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: initial none initial\"><span style=\"color: #ab720f;font-weight: bold;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">What will I need?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\"> Food coloring, water, ice trays, molds, muffin tins and other containers<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #606060;line-height: 18px;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: initial none initial\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">You can&#8217;t have as much snow as we do and not have an abundance of icicles. We decided to incorporate some of ours into a sculpture, joining them to ice blocks made by freezing colored water in ice-cube trays, Jell-O molds and yogurt containers. We placed all the materials on an outdoor table, and everyone took turns building totem poles, monsters and free-form sculptures, gluing the blocks of ice with a little dribble of water (it quickly froze).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #606060;line-height: 18px;padding: 0px;margin: 0px;border: initial none initial\"><span style=\"color: #ab720f;font-weight: bold;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">Helpful Hint<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\"> For consistency of hardness, consider making your colored blocks in the freezer rather than outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice and Icy Winter Fun Looking for some winter day fun over the holiday vacation? \u00a0Once the first snow hits, this will be a great snowy day activity. What is it? An art project involving icicles and frozen blocks of colored ice What will I need? Food coloring, water, ice trays, molds, muffin tins and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,3,5],"tags":[42,114,1423,1421,1424,115,94,1422],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toddlers","category-preschool-prep","category-preschool","category-pre-k","tag-art","tag-colors","tag-pre-k","tag-preschool","tag-preschool-prep","tag-science","tag-sensory-table","tag-toddlers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}