{"id":1525,"date":"2017-12-14T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T16:04:37","slug":"icicle-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/12\/14\/icicle-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Icicle Ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Pony beads&nbsp;<br \/>\nSparkly pipe cleaners &#8211; cut in half<br \/>\nPencil or marker<br \/>\nThread<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Place pony beads in a small container. &nbsp;Invite your child to thread pony beads onto a pipe cleaner. &nbsp;They can be close together or spread apart. &nbsp;Once the desired number of pony beads are on the pipe cleaner, have your child wrap the pipe cleaner around a pencil of marker to give it a spiral effect. &nbsp;Tie a thread to the top of the pipe cleaner and hang on the Christmas tree. &nbsp;Observe how the sparkly pipe cleaner twinkles as the lights shine upon it making it look like an icicle. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesson Extension:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourage 2-3 year olds to count the number of beads on the pipe cleaner.<\/li>\n<li>4-6 year olds can be encouraged to make a pattern as the beads are placed onto the pipe cleaner.<\/li>\n<li>Children may also enjoy making wreaths, candy canes, or other creative shapes by bending the pipe cleaners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have fun decorating your tree and packages with these colorful ornaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Pony beads&nbsp; Sparkly pipe cleaners &#8211; cut in half Pencil or marker Thread Directions Place pony beads in a small container. &nbsp;Invite your child to thread pony beads onto a pipe cleaner. &nbsp;They can be close together or spread apart. &nbsp;Once the desired number of pony beads are on the pipe cleaner, have your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/12\/14\/icicle-ornaments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Icicle Ornaments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1526,"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-1525","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\/1525","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=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}