{"id":3006,"date":"2018-11-10T20:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2018-11-10T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:05:17","slug":"beaded-pipe-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/10\/beaded-pipe-cleaners\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaded Pipe Cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nCookie sheet<br \/>\n3-10 white pipe cleaners<br \/>\nA few dozen black beads in a small bowl<br \/>\nMagnetic numbers 1 through 9<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nPlace the magnetic numbers on your cookie sheet in order.&nbsp; You may choose to only count to 3 (or 5 or 8, depending on how familiar your child is with number symbols and quantities.)&nbsp; Locate the magnetic number 1.&nbsp; Show your child 1 finger.&nbsp; Have him show you 1 finger.&nbsp; Ask him to pick up 1 bead.&nbsp; Let him thread it onto a pipe cleaner and lay it on the cookie sheet by the number 1 magnet.&nbsp; Repeat with 2 fingers.&nbsp; Locate the magnetic number 2.&nbsp; Pick out 2 beads from the dish and thread them on the next pipe cleaner.&nbsp; Challenge him to find number 3.&nbsp; Pick out 3 beads from the dish and thread them on another pipe cleaner.&nbsp; Continue the game until interest wanes.&nbsp; You can continue on another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cookie sheet 3-10 white pipe cleaners A few dozen black beads in a small bowl Magnetic numbers 1 through 9 Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Place the magnetic numbers on your cookie sheet in order.&nbsp; You may choose to only count to 3 (or 5 or 8, depending on how familiar your child &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/10\/beaded-pipe-cleaners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beaded Pipe Cleaners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3007,"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-3006","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\/3006","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=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}