{"id":1437,"date":"2017-11-28T15:38:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:39:25","slug":"texture-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/11\/28\/texture-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Texture Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Construction paper cut into a simple bear shape<br \/>\nVarious small pieces of materials with interesting textures (i.e. velvet, sandpaper, feathers, bubble wrap, satin ribbon, etc.)<br \/>\nGlue<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Begin by reading a favorite teddy bear book. &nbsp;Then invite your child to glue small pieces of material with various textures all over the bear shape. &nbsp;Talk about the way each one feels as she glues them onto the paper. &nbsp;Introduce words such as rough, bumpy, soft, smooth, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Extensions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a texture walk around your house with your child; identify things that are smooth, bumpy, soft, rough<\/li>\n<li>Sort items according to their textures<\/li>\n<li>Read &#8220;Touch and Feel&#8221; books with your child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Construction paper cut into a simple bear shape Various small pieces of materials with interesting textures (i.e. velvet, sandpaper, feathers, bubble wrap, satin ribbon, etc.) Glue Directions Begin by reading a favorite teddy bear book. &nbsp;Then invite your child to glue small pieces of material with various textures all over the bear shape. &nbsp;Talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/11\/28\/texture-bears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Texture Bears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1438,"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-1437","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\/1437","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=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}