{"id":2186,"date":"2018-04-05T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2018-04-05T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:49:07","slug":"pastel-beads-on-a-wooden-skewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/04\/05\/pastel-beads-on-a-wooden-skewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastel Beads on a Wooden Skewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>1 wooden skewer<br \/>\n1 piece of floral styrofoam&nbsp;<br \/>\nPlastic pastel beads in a small container (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/BEADTIN-Pastel-Pearl-9x6mm-Barrel\/dp\/B06XJ8TZDL\/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522957609&amp;sr=8-14&amp;keywords=pastel+plastic+beads\">pony beads<\/a> work well)<br \/>\nDice<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Place the wooden skewer into the piece of styrofoam. &nbsp;Invite your child to place beads onto the skewer. &nbsp;For an added challenge, provide 1-2 dice. &nbsp;The child rolls the dice, counts the number of dots, and places that corresponding number of beads on the skewer.&nbsp; Older children may also be encouraged to create repeating bead patterns as they are placed on the skewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials 1 wooden skewer 1 piece of floral styrofoam&nbsp; Plastic pastel beads in a small container (pony beads work well) Dice Directions Place the wooden skewer into the piece of styrofoam. &nbsp;Invite your child to place beads onto the skewer. &nbsp;For an added challenge, provide 1-2 dice. &nbsp;The child rolls the dice, counts the number &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/04\/05\/pastel-beads-on-a-wooden-skewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pastel Beads on a Wooden Skewer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2187,"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-2186","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\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}