{"id":191,"date":"2018-07-04T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=191"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:28:38","slug":"water-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/07\/04\/water-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-774\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play.jpeg\" alt=\"Water Play\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Materials<\/h4>\n<p>Water in a large tub<br \/>\nMr. Bubble&nbsp;bath soap<br \/>\nPlastic cups, bottles, squeeze bottles<br \/>\nPipettes or basters<br \/>\nFood coloring (optional)<\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play2.jpeg\" alt=\"Water Play\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play2.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/water_play2-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Directions<\/h4>\n<p>Fill large tub with warm soapy water. Add food coloring for interest.&nbsp; Invite your child to pour, squeeze, dump, squirt and explore in the water. &nbsp;Show your child how to pinch a pipetter or eye dropper. This is not an easy concept to learn and took our Acorn children several minutes of practicing with pipettes and basters in order to fill them with water. Once the children understood the concept, they had a blast squirting water into plastic cups, bottles, and even clear plastic ornaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-943\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-942\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2016\/05\/waterplay1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Water in a large tub Mr. Bubble&nbsp;bath soap Plastic cups, bottles, squeeze bottles Pipettes or basters Food coloring (optional) Directions Fill large tub with warm soapy water. Add food coloring for interest.&nbsp; Invite your child to pour, squeeze, dump, squirt and explore in the water. &nbsp;Show your child how to pinch a pipetter or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/07\/04\/water-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Water Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192,"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-191","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\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}