{"id":3636,"date":"2010-07-15T20:11:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T02:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2010-07-15T20:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T02:11:29","slug":"ice-smashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/ice-smashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Smashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of writing one big long Tot School post, I&#8217;m going to start highlighting some individual activities that The Littlest Apple has enjoyed.\u00c2\u00a0 This ice hammering activity was a HUGE hit at our house, perfect for those hot summer afternoons.\u00c2\u00a0 The Littlest Apple has asked for it many times since we first tried this a few days ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Just freeze some small trinkets overnight in a bowl full of water.\u00c2\u00a0 I used gold coins and fish leftover from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/10\/sensory-bin-extravaganza\/\">sensory bins<\/a>, cookie cutters and other playdough accessories, and a few little vehicles.\u00c2\u00a0 Then just pop the big ice block out, give your kiddo a hammer (a REAL one!) and let them try to &#8220;rescue&#8221; the trinkets from the ice.\u00c2\u00a0 What kid doesn&#8217;t love smashing things?!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be doing this activity again soon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3637\" title=\"Ice Hammer 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-1.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3638\" title=\"Ice Hammer 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-2.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Ice-Hammer-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/ice-smashing\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of writing one big long Tot School post, I&#8217;m going to start highlighting some individual activities that The Littlest Apple has enjoyed.\u00c2\u00a0 This ice hammering activity was a HUGE hit at our house, perfect for those hot summer afternoons.\u00c2\u00a0 The Littlest Apple has asked for it many times since we first tried this a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,49,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-motherhood","category-tot-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}