{"id":18363,"date":"2011-08-10T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2015-02-25T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T13:28:27","slug":"toddler-activities-sponge-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/toddler-activities-sponge-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler Activities: Sponge Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping to resume my toddler activity series this fall. If nothing else because I need to find activities to occupy little Miss Cora during our school day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26310\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/sponge-tower-time.jpg\" alt=\"sponge tower blocks\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/sponge-tower-time.jpg 427w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/sponge-tower-time-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cora is my most active toddler and I need a long list of activities to keep her out of trouble this year.<\/p>\n<p>I found this awesome idea on <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/happy1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> (of course).<\/p>\n<h3><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/toddlerapproved.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/sponge-tower-time.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sponge Blocks<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/sponge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18365 alignleft\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/sponge.jpg\" alt=\"sponge blocks\" width=\"216\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a> This is truly a genius idea! You can find out how to make them on <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/toddlerapproved.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/sponge-tower-time.html\">Toddler Approved! <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like these blocks because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If your toddler throws them nothing will break.<\/li>\n<li>They are quiet when they fall.<\/li>\n<li>They are super cheap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your toddler is still putting everything in their mouth you might want to wait until they outgrow that phase before making these sponge blocks. They could choke on a piece of the sponge if they bit a piece off.<\/p>\n<p>I plan on making these for Cora this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping to resume my toddler activity series this fall. If nothing else because I need to find activities to occupy little Miss Cora during our school day. Cora is my most active toddler and I need a long list of activities to keep her out of trouble this year. I found this awesome idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-helps","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26311,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions\/26311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}