{"id":2719,"date":"2018-09-20T23:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:48:22","slug":"clothespin-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/20\/clothespin-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothespin Pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong><br \/>\nSmall plastic container or box (like a child\u2019s shoe box)<br \/>\nYellow sticker dots<br \/>\nYellow spring-type clothespins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><br \/>\nPlace the yellow sticker dots about 2\u201d apart around the top edge of your box. If you have yellow clothespins, great! If not, use the regular wooden ones. If you want to, you can use a yellow highlighter to color the tips of your clothespins.<\/p>\n<p>Show your toddler or preschooler how to pinch the clothespin to open it up; then pinch it to one of the yellow dots on your box. Continue until interest wanes. This is a great activity to practice the pincer grip, which is important for when your child is learning how to hold a pencil properly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials: Small plastic container or box (like a child\u2019s shoe box) Yellow sticker dots Yellow spring-type clothespins Directions: Place the yellow sticker dots about 2\u201d apart around the top edge of your box. If you have yellow clothespins, great! If not, use the regular wooden ones. If you want to, you can use a yellow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/20\/clothespin-pinch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clothespin Pinch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2720,"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-2719","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\/2719","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=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}