{"id":128,"date":"2016-05-07T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:54:49","slug":"using-a-hole-puncher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/using-a-hole-puncher\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Hole Puncher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Strips of purple construction paper approximately an inch wide and 5-6 inches in length<br \/>\nHole puncher<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Place strips of purple paper in a basket or on a small tray with a hole puncher.&nbsp; Encourage your child to punch holes along a strip of paper, starting from the left side and moving across the paper towards the right end of the strip.<\/p>\n<p>This simple fine motor activity is excellent for developing eye and hand coordination and strengthening the child&#8217;s fingers and hands.&nbsp; It&nbsp;also supports learning to manipulate scissors and will&nbsp;aid in naturally guiding your child to move from left to right across the paper, an important&nbsp;skill needed for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Strips of purple construction paper approximately an inch wide and 5-6 inches in length Hole puncher Directions Place strips of purple paper in a basket or on a small tray with a hole puncher.&nbsp; Encourage your child to punch holes along a strip of paper, starting from the left side and moving across the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/using-a-hole-puncher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using a Hole Puncher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}