{"id":1854,"date":"2009-06-08T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:48:49","slug":"blasting-away-boredom-with-a-reading-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/blasting-away-boredom-with-a-reading-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasting away Boredom with a reading chain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Part of the Blast Away Boredom summer-long series<\/a> on MomsToolbox.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

Check back every Monday through Thursday for ideas to have more fun all summer long.<\/em><\/p>\n

Need more ideas? Try this one<\/a> to get you set for anytime boredom sets in…<\/em><\/p>\n

On with today’s idea…<\/p>\n

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Reading Chain<\/strong>
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Make a chain \u2018link\u2019 from construction paper for each book your child reads\u00a0 (or, depending on the age, that you read to your child) this summer. Write the title and author of each book on each \u2018link\u2019 and hang the chain along the top of a room. Watch it grow throughout the summer. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t take credit for this one (the idea or the photos). A friend of mine, whose daughter is featured here, shared with me that she and her daughter are on their fourth reading chain at more than 150 books since the beginning of last summer!
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Here’s a shot of one of her chains hanging in her playroom:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Part of the Blast Away Boredom summer-long series on MomsToolbox.com. Check back every Monday through Thursday for ideas to have more fun all summer long. Need more ideas? Try this one to get you set for anytime boredom sets in… On with today’s idea… Reading Chain Make a chain \u2018link\u2019 from construction paper for each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[279,284],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-for-kids","tag-boredom-buster","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}