{"id":2659,"date":"2012-06-07T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2016-09-27T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:02:30","slug":"diy-fun-shadow-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"DIY Fun: Shadow People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7212\/7298922500_6256253938_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0053\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>*Andrew &#8220;strongly recommended&#8221; that I change Adventure Day to DIY Fun, as this better captures the content of these posts&#8230; so I begrudgingly oblige.*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This morning&#8217;s <del>adventure<\/del>\u00a0DIY fun is a lot less complicated than the last two. I know that some days you need a last minute idea to occupy the littles that involves very little planning and even fewer materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials Needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sidewalk chalk<\/li>\n<li>A sunny day<\/li>\n<li>Wide open space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Seriously. That&#8217;s all you need.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step One: Have your child (or children) stand very still while you trace the outline of his\/her shadow on the ground.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7097\/7298923148_42e428e977_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0055\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hint: It&#8217;s way cooler if you do this in the evening when shadows are long. Your kids will be amazed by how much taller their shadow people are. How can this be?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8149\/7298923716_884de19434_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0057\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step Two: Encourage your child to decorate his shadow person however he would like. A shadow person is a very magical thing indeed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7095\/7298924348_d53b866c61_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0058\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7228\/7298924936_00179c7fdd_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0063\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7244\/7298925500_b2b3ab3487_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0064\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7101\/7298926090_f933ac0c1f_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0065\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7098\/7298926758_f85b68d46c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0066\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A close-up of shadow person hair<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7222\/7298927190_631f15b5de_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0067\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Try some props! Milo chose bunny ears for his next shadow person:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8168\/7298927816_c5880a4f30_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0073\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8024\/7298928454_de45180cd3_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0075\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8230; who ended up looking mighty&#8230; bonded?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7078\/7298928950_bdd43b11ff_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0079\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step Four: Get the neighborhood kids involved for a whole shadow people party!<\/p>\n<p>Something else to try? If you have access to a wide open space all day, try going out at different times of the day to draw your shadow people and compare sizes and shapes. This can facilitate a great discussion about the movement of the sun and how shadows work! I actually have a plastic baggie full of sidewalk chalk in my purse for random shadow people parties at the playground. It is a huge hit with kids of all ages and a great way to get a playground full of kids to interact with each other when they wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Andrew &#8220;strongly recommended&#8221; that I change Adventure Day to DIY Fun, as this better captures the content of these posts&#8230; so I begrudgingly oblige.* This morning&#8217;s adventure\u00a0DIY fun is a lot less complicated than the last two. I know that some days you need a last minute idea to occupy the littles that involves very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIY Fun: Shadow People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[119,75,62],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-diy","tag-ingenius-ideas","tag-neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12559,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/12559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}