{"id":2820,"date":"2018-10-05T02:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2018-10-05T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:39:13","slug":"water-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/water-play-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nA water table (a large, shallow plastic container placed on the floor or on a low table)<br \/>\n3\u20134 inches of water<br \/>\nSmall plastic cups, measuring cups, funnels, basters, large spoons, jars, sieves, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Towels<br \/>\nAdult supervision<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nWater play for preschoolers is great fun\u2014ask any three-year-old!&nbsp; But in addition to being fun, it\u2019s a great way for children to improve hand-eye coordination, dexterity, precision; experiment with basic math concepts, including volume, fractions, (half-full, quarter-full) more\/less; science concepts, as they determine why some things sink while other things float; social skills as they talk with others about what they\u2019re experiencing and learn to share the water toys.<\/p>\n<p>For blue week, we tried adding blue food coloring to the water.&nbsp; We used only blue cups, funnels, etc.&nbsp; We even used a blue water table!&nbsp; Children love experiencing water play, and the benefits of such an activity are far-reaching, and well worth the occasional spills!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A water table (a large, shallow plastic container placed on the floor or on a low table) 3\u20134 inches of water Small plastic cups, measuring cups, funnels, basters, large spoons, jars, sieves, etc. Towels Adult supervision Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Water play for preschoolers is great fun\u2014ask any three-year-old!&nbsp; But in addition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/water-play-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Water Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2821,"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-2820","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\/2820","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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}