{"id":1309,"date":"2017-10-26T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:27:30","slug":"pounding-golf-tees-into-a-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/26\/pounding-golf-tees-into-a-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pounding Golf Tees into a Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<\/b><br \/>\nSmall pumpkin<br \/>\nChild&#8217;s play hammer<br \/>\nPackage of golf tees<br \/>\nGallon size Ziploc bag for storing the activity<br \/>\nSharpie Marker<\/p>\n<div><b>Directions<\/b><br \/>\nPlace the small pumpkin, a container of plastic golf tees, and a child\u2019s play hammer onto a hard surface. Invite your child to hammer the \u201cplastic nails\u201d into the pumpkin. Encourage her to hold the tee with her fingers of one hand and use the hammer with the other hand. Your child will have fun pounding the tees into the pumpkin. Count the number of golf tees hammered into the pumpkin.<\/div>\n<div>\nThis activity works on the pincer grasp, which is needed for holding a pencil correctly, eye and hand coordination, and counting.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Small pumpkin Child&#8217;s play hammer Package of golf tees Gallon size Ziploc bag for storing the activity Sharpie Marker Directions Place the small pumpkin, a container of plastic golf tees, and a child\u2019s play hammer onto a hard surface. Invite your child to hammer the \u201cplastic nails\u201d into the pumpkin. Encourage her to hold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/26\/pounding-golf-tees-into-a-pumpkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pounding Golf Tees into a Pumpkin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1310,"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-1309","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\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}