{"id":1382,"date":"2017-11-16T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:59:45","slug":"playdough-and-cheerios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/11\/16\/playdough-and-cheerios\/","title":{"rendered":"Playdough and Cheerios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Ball of playdough (we used brown chocolate scented playdough for Brown Week)<br \/>\nLong pieces of uncooked spaghetti<br \/>\nCheerios<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Place balls of playdough on a hard surface. Provide uncooked spaghetti and Cheerios. Invite your child to explore with the materials, placing the spaghetti into the playdough and threading Cheerios onto it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a great activity for practicing eye\/hand coordination and strengthening the pincer grasp, which is a fine motor skill needed for writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Ball of playdough (we used brown chocolate scented playdough for Brown Week) Long pieces of uncooked spaghetti Cheerios Directions Place balls of playdough on a hard surface. Provide uncooked spaghetti and Cheerios. Invite your child to explore with the materials, placing the spaghetti into the playdough and threading Cheerios onto it. &nbsp; This is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/11\/16\/playdough-and-cheerios\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playdough and Cheerios&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1383,"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-1382","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\/1382","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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}