{"id":1943,"date":"2018-02-28T03:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2018-03-02T04:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:09:55","slug":"drawing-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/02\/28\/drawing-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1946 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/Drawing-Stripes-Merrinn-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/Drawing-Stripes-Merrinn-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/Drawing-Stripes-Merrinn-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><br \/>\nWhite paper<br \/>\nCrayons or markers (thick crayons, markers, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crayon-Rocks-Colors-Muslin-Bag\/dp\/B002RBH18Y\/ref=sr_1_1?s=arts-crafts&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1519960553&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=rock+crayons\">crayon rocks<\/a> work best for small hands)<br \/>\nTape<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><br \/>\nSecure the paper with tape onto the work surface. Encourage your toddler to choose a crayon or marker and make lines or stripes down the paper.&nbsp; Introduce the words top and bottom. With toddlers, don&#8217;t be too concerned about the way your child chooses to grip the writing instrument. Encourage preschool age children to hold the marker or crayon using a correct writing grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials White paper Crayons or markers (thick crayons, markers, or crayon rocks work best for small hands) Tape Directions Secure the paper with tape onto the work surface. Encourage your toddler to choose a crayon or marker and make lines or stripes down the paper.&nbsp; Introduce the words top and bottom. With toddlers, don&#8217;t be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/02\/28\/drawing-stripes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drawing Stripes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1944,"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-1943","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\/1943","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=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}