{"id":2002,"date":"2018-03-16T03:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T03:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2018-03-16T03:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T03:31:16","slug":"matching-color-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/16\/matching-color-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching Color Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<br \/>\n<\/strong><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Avery-Removable-Coding-Labels-Inches\/dp\/B000BMBU9C\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497218554&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=avery+dot+sticker&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=busytodd0a-20&amp;linkId=df805e960fd27492a4b73f9dec192a25\">Dot stickers<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crayola-12-Ct-Washable-Markers\/dp\/B00006IFJ4\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497218597&amp;sr=8-1-spons&amp;keywords=crayola+markers&amp;psc=1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=busytodd0a-20&amp;linkId=cd233878f26eb02fc869a50bd51faa36\">Markers<br \/>\n<\/a>Empty paper towel tube<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Color six red dots, six blue dots, six yellow dots, and six green dots on an empty paper towel cardboard tube. Give your child a sheet of dot stickers and invite her to place dot stickers on the matching color dots on the tube.&nbsp; Reinforce the names of the colors.&nbsp; Find and count all the red dots, blue dots, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great take-along activity for the car, airplane, or restaurant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Children are practicing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Fine motor skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Matching colors (sorting)<\/li>\n<li>Identification of colors<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Counting&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Dot stickers Markers Empty paper towel tube Directions Color six red dots, six blue dots, six yellow dots, and six green dots on an empty paper towel cardboard tube. Give your child a sheet of dot stickers and invite her to place dot stickers on the matching color dots on the tube.&nbsp; Reinforce the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/16\/matching-color-dots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matching Color Dots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2003,"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-2002","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\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}