{"id":691,"date":"2024-02-15T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:32:08","slug":"play-dough-love-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/play-dough-love-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Dough Love Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Using the adorable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeyespyclub.com\">Eye Spy Club<\/a> wood love bug play pieces for inspiration, we made some love bug creations of our own.  I quickly pulled together a selection of loose parts, diy heart stamps, play dough, cookie cutters and trays.<\/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\/2024\/02\/IMG_1632-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"love bug play dough play invitation\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1632-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1632-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1632-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1632-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1632-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Loose Parts <\/strong>(all from Dollarama unless otherwise noted)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>cupcake picks (wood picks from Homesense)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>suction toys<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pipe cleaners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>googly eyes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>wood hearts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>heart gems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;O&#8217;s&#8221; from x&#8217;s and o&#8217;s game<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>paper heart straws<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1634-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"play dough love bug\" class=\"wp-image-697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1634-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1634-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1634-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1634-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1634-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=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1639-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"play dough valentine's creation\" class=\"wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1639-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1639-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1639-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1639-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1639-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=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1635-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"play dough cake and bug\" class=\"wp-image-693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1635-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1635-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1635-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1635-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1635-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 came up with some very interesting creations.  I&#8217;m sure there are many other fun loose parts we could have added.  Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the adorable Eye Spy Club wood love bug play pieces for inspiration, we made some love bug creations of our own. I quickly pulled together a selection of loose parts, diy heart stamps, play dough, cookie cutters and trays. Loose Parts (all from Dollarama unless otherwise noted) The kids came up with some very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/play-dough-love-bugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play Dough Love Bugs&#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":[1,117],"tags":[111,114,115,113,112],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sensory-play","tag-kidsvalentines","tag-playdoughideas","tag-playdoughlooseparts","tag-playdoughlovebugs","tag-valentinesplaydough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}