{"id":5680,"date":"2010-07-30T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:17:34","slug":"mellow-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/07\/30\/mellow-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellow Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy week, with someplace to go every day until today. I decided today would be a relax-at-home day, and this morning Bean and I did two crafts. She is still learning how to handle materials, developing fine motor skills, and beginning to grasp the steps of a project. The two crafts we did were from the All Kids Network. We made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allkidsnetwork.com\/crafts\/summer\/paper-plate-sun.asp\">paper plate sun<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allkidsnetwork.com\/crafts\/animals\/stained-glass-fish.asp\">tissue paper fish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the fish, I prepared the materials and gave them to Bean. She put the bits of paper on. I forgot about putting the eye and the smile on, but no biggie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4844142639\/\" title=\"&quot;stained glass&quot; fish by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4129\/4844142639_43d8262b15.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"&quot;stained glass&quot; fish\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With the sun, I cut up the pieces; Bean painted the plate and the smile. After it dried, she put glue on the rays and the sunglasses and told me where to position them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4844143027\/\" title=\"paper plate sun by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4104\/4844143027_35ba24cb43.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"paper plate sun\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>She&#8217;s not quite three, so these projects are mostly a collaborative effort. But we have fun, and she&#8217;s starting to do more on her own. Here&#8217;s a happy child:<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4844142077\/\" title=\"cheerful! by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4153\/4844142077_59ca62f936.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"cheerful!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy week, with someplace to go every day until today. I decided today would be a relax-at-home day, and this morning Bean and I did two crafts. She is still learning how to handle materials, developing fine motor skills, and beginning to grasp the steps of a project. The two crafts we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214,25,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13579,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions\/13579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}