{"id":274,"date":"2018-02-08T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=274"},"modified":"2018-02-09T05:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:40:24","slug":"scissors-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/02\/08\/scissors-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Scissors Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Materials<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-275 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news881856_796007-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scissors Work\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news881856_796007-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news881856_796007.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Wide strip of paper<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dollartree.com\/Kids-Safety-Cut-Scissors-5-\/p2258\/index.pro\">Scissors<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Dollar Store Safety Scissors work well for young children<br \/>\nSharpie Marker<\/p>\n<h3>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-276 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news881856_831966-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news881856_831966-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news881856_831966.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Directions<\/h3>\n<p>Using a Sharpie marker, make simple lines on a wide strip of paper. &nbsp;Invite your child to cut carefully on the lines using a pair of child safety scissors. &nbsp;Help your child place his thumb and the correct finger in the scissor handles and open and close the blades. &nbsp;This is an important skill for strengthening fingers in preparation for learning to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Wide strip of paper Scissors&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Dollar Store Safety Scissors work well for young children Sharpie Marker &nbsp;Directions Using a Sharpie marker, make simple lines on a wide strip of paper. &nbsp;Invite your child to cut carefully on the lines using a pair of child safety scissors. &nbsp;Help your child place his thumb and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/02\/08\/scissors-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scissors Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1854,"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-274","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\/274","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}