{"id":5704,"date":"2010-08-14T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:15:53","slug":"abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/08\/14\/abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an easy, simple activity. I bought some colored masking tape, half-inch width, online at Discount School Supply. This stash will last a long time and be useful for many things. Then I got out some construction paper and tore off pieces of tape. (Bean chose the colors.) Then she decorated the paper with them. I noticed she mostly wanted to concentrate the color in one spot. After six were done I taped them to our dining room wall. Voila! Simple abstract art. It entertained her well for a while.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4886235773\/\" title=\"construction paper and masking tape = easy abstract art by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4080\/4886235773_fa29ea342b.jpg\" width=\"456\" height=\"500\" alt=\"construction paper and masking tape = easy abstract art\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And thanks to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frugalfamilyfunblog.com\/\"> Frugal Family Blog<\/a> for the inspiration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an easy, simple activity. I bought some colored masking tape, half-inch width, online at Discount School Supply. This stash will last a long time and be useful for many things. Then I got out some construction paper and tore off pieces of tape. (Bean chose the colors.) Then she decorated the paper with them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","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=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13575,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/13575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}