{"id":2456,"date":"2018-06-29T02:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2018-06-29T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:02:03","slug":"nature-cutting-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/06\/29\/nature-cutting-tray\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Cutting Tray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<br \/>\n<\/strong>Blades of grass, leaves, flower petals, etc.<br \/>\nScissors<br \/>\nTray (Melissa and Doug Puzzles storage trays work well)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><br \/>\nInvite your child to snip, cut, and manipulate the different items for cutting purposes.&nbsp; This activity is best done with young children who already have a general grasp on holding scissors, since cutting limp grass and soft petals and turning leaves to cut different angles takes patience, control, and persistence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This activity is also a great sensory experience for your child.&nbsp; Smelling different flowers, mint leaves, and other spices, feeling various textures, and observing the many colors in the tray makes for a rich sensory experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Blades of grass, leaves, flower petals, etc. Scissors Tray (Melissa and Doug Puzzles storage trays work well) Directions Invite your child to snip, cut, and manipulate the different items for cutting purposes.&nbsp; This activity is best done with young children who already have a general grasp on holding scissors, since cutting limp grass and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/06\/29\/nature-cutting-tray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nature Cutting Tray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2457,"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-2456","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\/2456","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=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}