{"id":463,"date":"2014-03-17T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?p=463"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:34:07","slug":"sock-monkeying-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Sock monkeying around!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?attachment_id=464\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-464\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-464\" title=\"sock monkey smaller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sock-monkey-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Check out the adorable sock monkeys that our friends made this past Thursday afternoon\u00a0at the South Walkerville Library as part of our March Break programming!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the program but would still like to make your own sock pal, there are plenty of tutorials and patterns that you can find online.\u00a0\u00a0This one <a title=\"How to make a sock monkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-Make-a-Sock-Monkey-3\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> has plenty\u00a0of photos and step-by-step instructions to help you.\u00a0If you prefer to hand-sew or don&#8217;t have a sewing machine, you might want to look at this one <a title=\"hand sewn sock monkey instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/thestitchsharer.com\/2012\/08\/24\/how-to-make-a-sock-monkey\/#more-1277\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> instead.\u00a0\u00a0Either way,\u00a0though, this is a fairly complicated craft project that should\u00a0probably be done under the supervision of an adult!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to\u00a0recycle a pair of socks that you no longer wear&#8230;just make sure you wash them first:)<\/p>\n<p>For more on sock monkeys and other stuffed\u00a0pals, check out this book from our craft collection titled <a title=\"Wool Toys and Friends\" href=\"http:\/\/windsor.bibliocommons.com\/item\/show\/650676017_wool_toys_amp_friends\" target=\"_blank\">Wool Toys and Friends<\/a> by Laurie Sharp. We also carry\u00a0an adorable picture book titled <a title=\"Oscar\" href=\"http:\/\/windsor.bibliocommons.com\/item\/show\/517935017_oscar\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar: The Big Adventure of a Little Sock Monkey<\/a> by Amy Schwartz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a title=\"Wool Toys and friends\" href=\"http:\/\/windsor.bibliocommons.com\/item\/show\/650676017_wool_toys_amp_friends\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"650676017\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Wool Toys &amp; Friends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781589235069\/MC.GIF&amp;client=519-255-6770&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=\" alt=\"Wool Toys &amp; Friends\" width=\"155\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Oscar\" href=\"http:\/\/windsor.bibliocommons.com\/item\/show\/517935017_oscar\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"517935017\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Oscar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=0060726229\/MC.GIF&amp;client=519-255-6770&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=\" alt=\"Oscar\" width=\"129\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the adorable sock monkeys that our friends made this past Thursday afternoon\u00a0at the South Walkerville Library as part of our March Break programming!\u00a0 If you missed the program but would still like to make your own sock pal, there are plenty of tutorials and patterns that you can find online.\u00a0\u00a0This one here has &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/?p=463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12],"tags":[14,23,25,24,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/kids\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}