{"id":11260,"date":"2025-07-26T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:11:01","slug":"fun-sand-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/26\/fun-sand-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Sand Tube!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, Abigail and I were at a street fair in El Cerrito and there was a guy who let us make sand sculptures in bottles and clear tubes. It was so very fun! We made a few pens with colored sand and then we made this work of art for Megan!<\/p>\n<p>Here is our note for Megan<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-11261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-452x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-452x600.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/colorful-tube-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abigail and I put a beautiful amount of work into making that sand flower thing for you. Here&#8217;s the colors we put in it, starting from the top of the flower, going down :-)<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow<br \/>\nTree (black to green)<br \/>\nVolcano (black to reds and yellows)<br \/>\nGeyser (black to blues)<br \/>\nFamily green, orange, purple<br \/>\nRock formations:<br \/>\nSapphire blue<br \/>\nAmethyst<br \/>\nEmerald<br \/>\nDiamond<br \/>\nRose quartz<br \/>\nFamily colors<br \/>\nSulfur for Lassen (black to yellow)<br \/>\nThe oranges and reds of sunset and fire (AKA, our wedding colors!)<br \/>\nFamily colors<br \/>\nAn awesome rainbow<\/p>\n<p>With love,<br \/>\nLee and Abigail<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, Abigail and I were at a street fair in El Cerrito and there was a guy who let us make sand sculptures in bottles and clear tubes. It was so very fun! We made a few pens with colored sand and then we made this work of art for Megan! Here is our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11263,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions\/11263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}