{"id":1666,"date":"2018-01-12T20:10:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:11:28","slug":"sorting-snowballs-cotton-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/01\/12\/sorting-snowballs-cotton-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting Snowballs (Cotton Balls)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>2-3 plastic containers or small bowls<br \/>\n2-3 different size cotton balls, white pom poms<br \/>\nTongs<br \/>\nTray<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>For todders, use just two sizes of cotton balls &nbsp;or white pom poms. Place two containers or small bowls on a tray with a pair of tongs and the &#8220;snowballs&#8221;. Invite your child to sort the snowballs, using the tongs to put the small ones in one container and the large ones in the other container. &nbsp;Introduce big and small or large and small.<\/p>\n<p>To add a level of difficulty, provide a third container and a third size of cotton balls or white pom poms. &nbsp;Now invite your child to sort the &#8220;snowballs&#8221; by small, medium, and large. This is an excellent way to extend the activity for preschoolers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials 2-3 plastic containers or small bowls 2-3 different size cotton balls, white pom poms Tongs Tray Directions For todders, use just two sizes of cotton balls &nbsp;or white pom poms. Place two containers or small bowls on a tray with a pair of tongs and the &#8220;snowballs&#8221;. Invite your child to sort the snowballs, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/01\/12\/sorting-snowballs-cotton-balls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sorting Snowballs (Cotton Balls)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1667,"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-1666","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\/1666","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}