{"id":170,"date":"2016-05-12T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=170"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:48:35","slug":"sensory-exploration-with-purple-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/12\/sensory-exploration-with-purple-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensory Exploration with Purple Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Dyed purple rice<br \/>\nLarge container<br \/>\nCups, spoons, plastic bottles, funnels, scoops<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Pour dyed purple rice in a large plastic open container.&nbsp; Place a variety of cups, bottles, scoops, spoons, and funnels into the container.&nbsp; Invite child to explore by scooping, measuring, pouring, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sensory play is an important part of the scientific process, as children investigate, question, discover, and problem solve.&nbsp;&nbsp;It builds&nbsp;language,&nbsp;social, and&nbsp;dramatic play&nbsp;skills as the children negotiate&nbsp;with one another&nbsp;to share tools, create stories, and build dialogues.&nbsp; Both small and large&nbsp;motor skills&nbsp;get a boost as well, as the children manipulate the&nbsp;medium and tools.<\/p>\n<p>Store rice in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Dyed purple rice Large container Cups, spoons, plastic bottles, funnels, scoops Directions Pour dyed purple rice in a large plastic open container.&nbsp; Place a variety of cups, bottles, scoops, spoons, and funnels into the container.&nbsp; Invite child to explore by scooping, measuring, pouring, etc.&nbsp; Sensory play is an important part of the scientific process, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/12\/sensory-exploration-with-purple-rice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sensory Exploration with Purple Rice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"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-170","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\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}