{"id":2589,"date":"2018-08-05T02:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:47:49","slug":"can-you-catch-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/05\/can-you-catch-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Catch A Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><br \/>\nBag of black beans<br \/>\nContainer or baking pan<br \/>\nSmall baby food jar or container<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roundabout-Crafty-Assortment-Plastic-Buttons\/dp\/B06ZY4RZTX\/ref=sr_1_11_sspa?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1533437189&amp;sr=8-11-spons&amp;keywords=Star+shaped+buttons&amp;psc=1\">Colorful plastic star buttons<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Swity-Home-Silicone-Pancakes-Chocolate\/dp\/B019XOGYH6\/ref=sr_1_4?s=home-garden&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1533437666&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=small+tongs+for+kids\">Tongs<\/a><br \/>\nBook:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Twinkle-Nick-Bland\/dp\/1443100986\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1533437323&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=twinkle+by+nick+bland\"><em>Twinkle<\/em> <\/a>by Nick Bland (optional)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pour black beans into the container or baking pan.&nbsp; Add colorful plastic stars or star buttons.&nbsp; Invite your child to use a pair of small tongs to catch a stars. Drop the stars into a small container like a small bowl or baby food jar. How many stars can your child catch? Can you count the stars? Sort the stars?<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent fine-motor activity for older toddlers and preschoolers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Bag of black beans Container or baking pan Small baby food jar or container Colorful plastic star buttons Tongs Book:&nbsp; Twinkle by Nick Bland (optional) Directions Pour black beans into the container or baking pan.&nbsp; Add colorful plastic stars or star buttons.&nbsp; Invite your child to use a pair of small tongs to catch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/05\/can-you-catch-a-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can You Catch A Star?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2590,"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-2589","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\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}