{"id":438,"date":"2009-05-08T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-05-08T15:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T23:33:47","slug":"beads-and-clay-art-playgroup-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/beads-and-clay-art-playgroup-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Beads and Clay &#8211; Art Playgroup Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/belladia.typepad.com\/crafty_crow\/2009\/05\/joan-miro-pinch-bowl.html\">this idea for pushing beads into clay<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/belladia.typepad.com\/\">The Crafty Crow<\/a> and we had to try it for our art playgroup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4053-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Beads\" title=\"Beads\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4053-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4053.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First we got a pound of random glass beads, I&#8217;m sure they are all rejects from some bead factory, but who cares if they have holes we aren&#8217;t going to be stringing them anyway.  Rebecca and I started the day sorting them by color.  I thought we would do a couple and get bored, but we made it through almost all of them, sorting glass beads is a lot of fun!  Um, maybe I&#8217;m compulsive or something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4054-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Working\" title=\"Working\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4054-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4054.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t try to make bowls, we spent the whole time mashing beads into the clay and pulling them out, smooshing beady clay up, picking it apart&#8230; It was great.  They stuck with it much longer than most of the things we&#8217;ve done recently, usually somebody breaks for the tricycles and then it&#8217;s all over.  So two thumbs up.  Smooshy tactile salt-flour clay and pretty glass beads make a good combo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4057-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Beaded Clay\" title=\"Beaded Clay\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4057-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_4057.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then we had naked running through the sprinklers in the back yard &#8211; but no pictures of that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this idea for pushing beads into clay at The Crafty Crow and we had to try it for our art playgroup. First we got a pound of random glass beads, I&#8217;m sure they are all rejects from some bead factory, but who cares if they have holes we aren&#8217;t going to be stringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[38,12,213,37],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-playgroup","tag-beads","tag-clay","tag-crafty","tag-toddler-fun","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-74","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}