{"id":2732,"date":"2018-09-21T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:44:08","slug":"ice-cube-splash-and-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/21\/ice-cube-splash-and-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube Splash and Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nPlastic sheet (a Dollar Store picnic tablecloth works great!)<br \/>\nBath towel for your baby to lay on<br \/>\nShallow 9\u201d x 13\u201d baking dish or similar-size plastic tub<br \/>\n3\u20134 different colored frozen ice cubes<br \/>\nFood coloring<br \/>\nWater<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nSpread the plastic sheet out on the kitchen floor. Lay the bath towel on top. The night before, fill a few very small plastic containers with water, add a few drops of food coloring (a different color in each container), and freeze.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">To do the activity, fill the shallow baking dish with an inch of water and set it in front of your baby.&nbsp; Add the colored ice cubes, and watch as your baby tries to catch them. He or she will get wet, so have a dry shirt ready! Your baby will be delighted by trying to grab the ice cubes and splashing in the water!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plastic sheet (a Dollar Store picnic tablecloth works great!) Bath towel for your baby to lay on Shallow 9\u201d x 13\u201d baking dish or similar-size plastic tub 3\u20134 different colored frozen ice cubes Food coloring Water Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Spread the plastic sheet out on the kitchen floor. Lay the bath towel on top. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/21\/ice-cube-splash-and-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ice Cube Splash and Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2733,"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-2732","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\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}