{"id":2968,"date":"2018-11-06T02:04:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2018-11-06T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:13:13","slug":"coins-in-the-piggy-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/06\/coins-in-the-piggy-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Coins in the Piggy Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nPiggy bank<br \/>\nPlastic coins in a basket<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2971 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Coins-in-the-Piggy-Bank-Caden-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Coins-in-the-Piggy-Bank-Caden-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Coins-in-the-Piggy-Bank-Caden-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><strong>Directions&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nCoins in the Piggy Bank is a captivating way to get babies (12 \u2013 18 months) practicing those fine motor skills that will help them master tasks like zipping, buttoning, writing, etc. when they\u2019re a little older.&nbsp; I had a plastic piggy bank to use, but you could use an oatmeal cylinder box with a plastic lid to achieve the same effect.&nbsp; Just cut a slit big enough for the coins in the lid, put the lid on, and give your child the coins to insert through the slit.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">What was interesting to observe when I did this activity with Baby B. was that he inserted the coins easily if the bank opening ran perpendicular to his body.&nbsp; Then I turned the bank a \u00bc turn.&nbsp; Baby B. continued trying to put the coins in the bank, but could not adjust turning his hand to insert the coins.&nbsp; Baby C., who is 14 months, experienced similar issues.&nbsp; He could insert the coins from one direction only as well.&nbsp; We\u2019ll try this activity again in a few months to see if the babies can compensate for the change of direction needed to insert the coins successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Piggy bank Plastic coins in a basket Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Coins in the Piggy Bank is a captivating way to get babies (12 \u2013 18 months) practicing those fine motor skills that will help them master tasks like zipping, buttoning, writing, etc. when they\u2019re a little older.&nbsp; I had a plastic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/06\/coins-in-the-piggy-bank\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coins in the Piggy Bank&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2969,"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-2968","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\/2968","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=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}