{"id":1288,"date":"2012-11-07T21:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:57:09","slug":"kindergarten-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery47\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-2 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tighter-lead-shot-brighter-nerod.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tighter-lead-shot-brighter-nerod-600x600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Inspiration image from https:\/\/weecutetreasures.blogspot.ca\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tighter-lead-shot-brighter-nerod-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tighter-lead-shot-brighter-nerod-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tighter-lead-shot-brighter-nerod-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tighter-lead-shot-brighter-nerod.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/finished-mobile-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/finished-mobile-2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"659\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/finished-mobile-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/finished-mobile-2-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/making-of-mobile-copy.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/making-of-mobile-copy-600x600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/making-of-mobile-copy-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/making-of-mobile-copy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mobile-characters-copy.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mobile-characters-copy.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"498\" alt=\"     The main characters of the mobile: bike, writing a book, swing, monkey bars, and rainbow-haired girl petting cat while eating candy apple.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mobile-characters-copy.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mobile-characters-copy-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mobile-characters-copy-1024x340.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>One of the only projects I worked on when my babies were young was making mobiles for them &#8211; you can read about it <a title=\"mobiles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/2007\/10\/30\/mobiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. So it was particularly fun to help my five-year-old with her first real school project &#8211; to make a mobile about herself. If you had a look at the mobiles I made in the past, you&#8217;ll notice very little correlation &#8211; I really wanted her to direct this project.<\/p>\n<p>First, we looked on the internet for an idea, and we found dolls made from old-fashioned clothes pins &#8211; do a search and you will be amazed at the amount of images you find. We were inspired by this <a title=\"clothespin doll on swing\" href=\"http:\/\/weecutetreasures.blogspot.ca\/2009\/03\/new-new-range-of-sitting-clothespin.html\">one<\/a>, because my daughter loves to swing. We decided to make all different dolls doing the things she likes.<\/p>\n<p>We ventured out on a very rainy October day, but could not find any vintage clothespins (despite visiting many dollar stores, I didn&#8217;t find any but about a month later I found some!!). So we used spring-loaded clothespins and styrofoam balls for the heads. We pulled out the box of scrap cloth, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, embroidery floss, and a bunch of ribbons and spent the next two days crafting the mobile. Once we figured out how to use a pipe cleaner to attach the head and function as the arms, she could assemble the dolls herself, and selected all the clothing material. She even made a few of the dresses completely on her own. We used glue to attach the thread hair and eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Today her French Kindergarten peers got to enjoy her project and hear her share about the things she likes to do. And all the students get to have a fun classroom ceiling ornamented in each others&#8217; mobiles all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the only projects I worked on when my babies were young was making mobiles for them &#8211; you can read about it here. So it was particularly fun to help my five-year-old with her first real school project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1288\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[265,285,324,569,640],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-2","tag-childrens-art","tag-clothespin-dolls","tag-crafts","tag-kindergarten","tag-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}