{"id":433,"date":"2008-09-15T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=433"},"modified":"2008-10-01T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T15:16:36","slug":"the-creative-family-by-amanda-soule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-creative-family-by-amanda-soule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creative Family by Amanda Soule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-creative-family.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-928 alignleft\" title=\"the-creative-family\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-creative-family.jpg?resize=224%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-creative-family.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-creative-family.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Although it&#8217;s stated purpose is to give you ideas for play and creativity with your children, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn156902381&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">The Creative Family<\/a><\/strong><\/em> also functions as a gentle parenting guide with projects that are designed to encourage active participation for child and parent together. Emphasis is on the handmade and imperfect; the goal here is shared experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Although a wide variety of projects are given here (drawing and painting, sewing and embroidering, putting on a play, making music) you&#8217;re encouraged to be spontaneous, have fun, explore the world around you.<\/p>\n<p>Included are ideas for celebrating family holidays and events, creating rituals, preserving memories with photos, transforming children&#8217;s art into personal displays for your home, and exploring the natural world season by season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s stated purpose is to give you ideas for play and creativity with your children, The Creative Family also functions as a gentle parenting guide with projects that are designed to encourage active participation for child and parent together. Emphasis is on the handmade and imperfect; the goal here<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-creative-family-by-amanda-soule\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[83,155,162],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-crafts","tag-family","tag-play"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}