{"id":1947,"date":"2009-06-17T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:47:25","slug":"blast-away-boredom-with-a-color-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/blast-away-boredom-with-a-color-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast away Boredom with a Color Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/category\/blast-away-boredom\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/boredombanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Check back every Monday through Thursday for ideas to have more fun all summer long.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Need more ideas? Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/blast-away-bor\u2026th-momstoolboxblast-away-boredom-with-momstoolbox\/\" target=\"_self\">this one<\/a> to get you set for anytime boredom sets in&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On with today&#8217;s idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pick a color of the rainbow and go on a color walk (indoors or out), collecting things of only one color.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How many shades of your color have you found?<\/p>\n<p>What is the lightest item you found? Darkest? Did you find anything that surprised you?<\/p>\n<p>What was the biggest item? Smallest item? How did your items get to be the color they are?<\/p>\n<p>To make it more exciting, you could set a timer and challenge your child to find as many things of one color within a set time limit, going through all the colors of the rainbow 5 minutes at a time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re feeling really crafty, you could take photographs of each color&#8217;s collection, laminate them and turn them into color flash cards for a smaller child.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you have a colorful, fun day without any boredom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; On with today&#8217;s idea&#8230; Pick a color of the rainbow and go on a color walk (indoors or out), collecting things of only one color. [&hellip;]<\/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],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-for-kids","tag-boredom-buster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9761,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}