{"id":49,"date":"2015-02-12T20:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2015-04-03T20:17:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:17:59","slug":"valentines-paper-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Paper Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day just wouldn\u2019t be the same without a craft, so I invited my friend Lydia over to make a heart paper chain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7314\/16468440522_65745ae517.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIf you want to make your own chain you will need a few colors of paper. I chose red, pink and white because they are the official Valentine\u2019s Day colors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7343\/16281703318_16059c88e0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nFirst cut the paper into thin strips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7450\/15846886574_1da0d80c5e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nNext fold one paper strip in half. Then use your fingers to gently curl the cut ends in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7394\/16281716198_541ac85d60.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThen add a little glue to the end of the strip, bend it in and attach the other end of the strip to form a heart.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7289\/16468460382_0eb08707ee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLydia and each made a heart in our favorite color.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8580\/16469400725_b7ae3aeab4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAfter you have two hearts connect them with a third heart to start forming a chain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7419\/16283159389_75fd237bf6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nContinue to add links until the chain is the length you want.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7344\/16478592622_b431170182.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAs we held the chain up to admire our work, Cricket broke the \u201cno cats on the table\u201d rule to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do to celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day just wouldn\u2019t be the same without a craft, so I invited my friend Lydia over to make a heart paper chain. If you want to make your own chain you will need a few colors of paper. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}