{"id":310,"date":"2023-12-14T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2023-12-14T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:02:29","slug":"advent-day-13-christmas-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/advent-day-13-christmas-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 13 &#8211; Christmas Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last December, when I was rotating the kids&#8217; toys and looking for our most festive and Christmas themed items, I realized that we didn&#8217;t have any holiday puzzles.  I found a couple on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/bookoutlet.ca\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"bookoutlet.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Book Outlet<\/a> after Christmas last year and put them away for this season.  By the way, Book Outlet is a great place to get bargains on books, puzzles and activities.  I&#8217;m not affiliated, I just find it&#8217;s a great, inexpensive place to find holiday related items to add to our rotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, all to say, the elf (the kids say he&#8217;s an elf) brought a couple new holiday puzzles this year.<\/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_9395-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9395-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9395-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9395-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9395-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9395-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The adorable little sign and mini puzzle is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeyespyclub.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theeyespyclub.com\">Eye Spy Club<\/a>.  I love Meaghan&#8217;s stuff, it&#8217;s all hand-drawn and always has a unique twist.  The mini puzzle was probably my daughter&#8217;s favourite of the three.  A nice, easy and mess-free activity for a busy weekday. Let the puzzles begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, when I was rotating the kids&#8217; toys and looking for our most festive and Christmas themed items, I realized that we didn&#8217;t have any holiday puzzles. I found a couple on sale at Book Outlet after Christmas last year and put them away for this season. By the way, Book Outlet is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/advent-day-13-christmas-puzzles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 13 &#8211; Christmas Puzzles&#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":[18,6],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-kidsadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}