{"id":2580,"date":"2018-08-05T02:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:46:58","slug":"star-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/05\/star-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><br \/>\nLarge tub of water<br \/>\nScoops<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SourceTon-Flexible-Reusable-Chocolate-Homemade\/dp\/B07B481H4F\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1533434769&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=star+shaped+ice+cube+trays\">Star-shaped ice cube molds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<br \/>\n<\/strong>Freeze colored water in the star-shaped ice cube molds for several hours.&nbsp; Place them in a large plastic tub filled with water (or use in the bath tub!).<\/p>\n<p>Provide various scoops and invite your child to scoop up as many stars as they can.&nbsp; Allow your child to explore the water and stars.&nbsp; Talk about how they float on top of the water.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Older children can count how many they catch in the scoop.&nbsp; Try again and count.&nbsp; Did they get more or less the second time?&nbsp; How many more or how many less?&nbsp; Catch you catch just the yellow stars?<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun activity to do outside on a warm summer day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Large tub of water Scoops Star-shaped ice cube molds Directions Freeze colored water in the star-shaped ice cube molds for several hours.&nbsp; Place them in a large plastic tub filled with water (or use in the bath tub!). Provide various scoops and invite your child to scoop up as many stars as they can.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/05\/star-soup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Soup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2581,"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-2580","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\/2580","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=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}