{"id":173,"date":"2018-10-11T19:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=173"},"modified":"2018-10-12T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:48:13","slug":"the-power-of-playdough-additional-ideas-for-playing-with-playdough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/11\/the-power-of-playdough-additional-ideas-for-playing-with-playdough\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Playdough\u2014Additional Ideas for Playing with Playdough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/01\/26\/how-to-make-really-good-play-dough\/\">recipe for homemade playdough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roll the playdough into balls, snakes, and snails<\/li>\n<li>Poke and press things into playdough (uncooked spaghetti, feathers, straws, toothpicks, buttons, beads, googly eyes, pipe cleaners)<\/li>\n<li>Make prints in playdough using leaves, shells, lace, and textured rolling pins<\/li>\n<li>Practice cutting skills by using scissors to cut playdough<\/li>\n<li>Make playdough monsters<\/li>\n<li>Practice making&nbsp;letters, numbers, and shapes&nbsp;by rolling the playdough into snakes and then laying the snakes on top of letters, numbers, or shapes drawn on paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderful article explaining why playing with playdough is so important for developing skills in young children.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/families.naeyc.org\/learning-and-development\/music-math-more\/playdough-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playdough Power, from naeyc.org<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See recipe for homemade playdough. Roll the playdough into balls, snakes, and snails Poke and press things into playdough (uncooked spaghetti, feathers, straws, toothpicks, buttons, beads, googly eyes, pipe cleaners) Make prints in playdough using leaves, shells, lace, and textured rolling pins Practice cutting skills by using scissors to cut playdough Make playdough monsters Practice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/11\/the-power-of-playdough-additional-ideas-for-playing-with-playdough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Power of Playdough\u2014Additional Ideas for Playing with Playdough&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities","category-parent_resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}