{"id":7618,"date":"2014-07-03T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2014-06-17T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:12:45","slug":"montessori-inspired-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7618","title":{"rendered":"Montessori-Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0001\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5531\/14253662629_655307134f.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5531\/14253662629_655307134f_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0001\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0002\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5494\/14253698650_8f489d03a7.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5494\/14253698650_8f489d03a7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0002\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0005\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5498\/14438967442_0def5cf5de.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5498\/14438967442_0def5cf5de_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0005\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0006\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3872\/14460484593_4e5ecc7bc2.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3872\/14460484593_4e5ecc7bc2_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0006\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0007\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3903\/14460485123_5f11d8eb45.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3903\/14460485123_5f11d8eb45_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetic experiments are some of my boys&#8217; favorite activities. This time, I decided to hide a bunch of items in some sand, make some magnetic wands, and let them try to fish out the magnetic objects. So they knew how many items to retrieve, I placed squares on a piece of paper (one paper was filled with enough squares for the magnetic items, and the other was filled with enough for the non-magnetic items). When they filled up all the squares, they knew they had retrieved all the items.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0008\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2925\/14253704268_aec9d2b434.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2925\/14253704268_aec9d2b434_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0008\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0010\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3850\/14253666609_497f7f956e.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3850\/14253666609_497f7f956e_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0032\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2921\/14253881907_14af036caf.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2921\/14253881907_14af036caf_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0032\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0031\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5497\/14438977812_c92d82d817.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5497\/14438977812_c92d82d817_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0031\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0034\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5192\/14253882537_3f3d837f30.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5192\/14253882537_3f3d837f30_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0034\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0038\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2920\/14460496473_3ed4da4518.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2920\/14460496473_3ed4da4518_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0038\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0042\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3843\/14439208604_5eee2b2b94.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3843\/14439208604_5eee2b2b94_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0042\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boys all enjoyed this activity so much! Oliver renamed his wand the &#8220;metal detector&#8221; and proceeded to walk around the house touching it to doorknobs, lamps, the radiators, and even tried to put away the silverware from the dishwasher with it! That was a bit painstakingly slow, but you know how that goes.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0046\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3891\/14438981132_2d2bd985ce.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3891\/14438981132_2d2bd985ce_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0046\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0054\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5545\/14440320835_5e3e837d21.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5545\/14440320835_5e3e837d21_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0054\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have fun exploring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic experiments are some of my boys&#8217; favorite activities. This time, I decided to hide a bunch of items in some sand, make some magnetic wands, and let them try to fish out the magnetic objects. So they knew how many items to retrieve, I placed squares on a piece of paper (one paper was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Montessori-Inspired&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,147],"tags":[119,146],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-montessori-inspired","tag-diy","tag-montessori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","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=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7622,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions\/7622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}