{"id":177,"date":"2023-12-04T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:53:46","slug":"advent-day-4-play-christmas-bake-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/advent-day-4-play-christmas-bake-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 4 &#8211; Play Christmas Bake Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the start of a new week and I have organized activities over the next few days that the kids can do in the mornings before school and evenings after school.  Today, the surprise was to play &#8220;Christmas Bake Shop&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9095-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9095-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9095-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9095-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9095-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9095-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the kids came downstairs this morning, the pixy was set up and all ready to sell some delicious goods. The little gift in the advent calendar was a gingerbread man and a gingerbread woman.  I would like to note that only a few of the treats in our bake shop are new to us this year: the Tara Treasures felt goodies in the dark brown basket (from <a href=\"https:\/\/shopmymyandme.ca\">Mymy and Me<\/a>), the 1 gingerbread woman (from <a href=\"http:\/\/sewingseedsplay.com\">Sewing Seeds Play<\/a>), and the 3 Christmas red, green and white chip cookies (from <a href=\"http:\/\/sewingseedsplay.com\">Sewing Seeds Play<\/a>). Everything else we have from previous years and have been put away since last Christmas. I love play activities that have little collections I can add fun additions to each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9101-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9101-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9101-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9101-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9101-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9101-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9116-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9116-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9116-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9116-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9116-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9116-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9120-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9120-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9120-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9120-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9120-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9120-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The kids had a great time piling treats into baskets, carrying them around and selling them.  It was an easy activity for a busy Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, the pixy hasn&#8217;t done much so far.  He mostly hangs out with items related to the day&#8217;s activity.  I think that&#8217;s working okay for us right now.  I&#8217;m hesitant to create any elaborate antics yet, for fear that I won&#8217;t be able to keep up the momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the start of a new week and I have organized activities over the next few days that the kids can do in the mornings before school and evenings after school. Today, the surprise was to play &#8220;Christmas Bake Shop&#8221;. When the kids came downstairs this morning, the pixy was set up and all ready &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/advent-day-4-play-christmas-bake-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 4 &#8211; Play Christmas Bake Shop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20,21],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-christmasplaykitchen","tag-kidsbakeshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}