{"id":1781,"date":"2018-01-31T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2018-01-31T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:44:24","slug":"pounding-golf-tees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/01\/31\/pounding-golf-tees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pounding Golf Tees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<\/b><br \/>\nChild&#8217;s play hammer<br \/>\nPackage of golf tees (Black tees for Black and White week)<br \/>\nLarge pieces of styrofoam<br \/>\nSharpie Marker<\/p>\n<div><b>Directions<\/b><br \/>\nPlace the styrofoam, a container of plastic golf tees, and a child\u2019s play hammer onto a hard surface. Invite your child to hammer the \u201cplastic nails\u201d into the styrofoam. Encourage her to hold the tee with her fingers of one hand and use the hammer with the other hand. Your child will have fun pounding the tees into the styrofoam. Count the golf tees.<\/div>\n<div>\nThis activity works on the pincer grasp, which is needed for holding a pencil correctly, eye and hand coordination, and counting.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Child&#8217;s play hammer Package of golf tees (Black tees for Black and White week) Large pieces of styrofoam Sharpie Marker Directions Place the styrofoam, a container of plastic golf tees, and a child\u2019s play hammer onto a hard surface. Invite your child to hammer the \u201cplastic nails\u201d into the styrofoam. Encourage her to hold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/01\/31\/pounding-golf-tees-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pounding Golf Tees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1782,"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-1781","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\/1781","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=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}