{"id":2649,"date":"2018-09-07T03:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T03:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:43:15","slug":"tower-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/07\/tower-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nWooden inch cubes<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">A tray to catch falling towers is helpful but not necessary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re using this activity to focus on a particular color (we were learning about red), you can start your child&nbsp; off sorting out the red cubes from the rest.&nbsp; Once you have a dozen cubes or so, you can encourage your child to stack them, one on top of the other to build a tower. Toddlers have an instinctive need to knock things down, so you can try building your own tower, encouraging him to build his taller than yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Wooden inch cubes A tray to catch falling towers is helpful but not necessary Directions&nbsp; If you\u2019re using this activity to focus on a particular color (we were learning about red), you can start your child&nbsp; off sorting out the red cubes from the rest.&nbsp; Once you have a dozen cubes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/07\/tower-building\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tower Building&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2650,"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-2649","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\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}