{"id":1681,"date":"2013-08-03T01:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T05:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/08\/03\/its-national-watermelon-day\/"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T05:10:29","slug":"its-national-watermelon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/08\/03\/its-national-watermelon-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s National Watermelon Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRV-sFyg0dUbuBp2FGMNx4dJGS3-20Rxl_p5_gIZYBUGaAbuiU0\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea\"><strong>A Summer Craft Recipe: Watermelon Magnets!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 8px 0px;line-height: 1.8;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea\">Use these on the refrigerator or give them as gifts. Suitable for ages three and older.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #fffdea\">\n<li>In a bowl mix 1\/2 cup flour and 1\/4 cup salt. Add 1\/2 Tablespoon of olive oil, 1\/8 cup warm water and 1\/4 teaspoon red food coloring. Blend well and knead 20 times. If the dough is too sticky, add a bit more flour.<\/li>\n<li>In another bowl mix 1\/3 cup flour and 2 1\/2 tablespoons salt. Add 1 teaspoon olive oil, 3 teaspoons warm water and a few drops of green food coloring. Blend well and knead 20 times, adding more flour if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Mold the red dough into flat circles and roll the green dough into a long snake shape and wrap it around the edges of the red circles. Press the two colors together so that they stick to each other.<\/li>\n<li>Cut each circle in half and press 5 or 6 real watermelon seeds into the red part of the dough.<\/li>\n<li>Bake the finished watermelon slices at 200 degrees for 2 hours. Turn them over and bake for 1-2 hours more until completely dry.<\/li>\n<li>Glue a small magnet to the back of each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,514],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-craft","tag-watermelon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s National Watermelon Day! - Fredericksburg Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s National Watermelon Day! 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