{"id":3015,"date":"2018-11-10T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2018-11-10T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:29:06","slug":"pompom-filled-wsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/10\/pompom-filled-wsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompom-Filled Whisk (for babies 7-12 months)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nKitchen whisk<br \/>\nPompoms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nStuff a regular kitchen whisk with pompoms.&nbsp; Show your baby how to pull a pompom out of the whisk.&nbsp; Hand the whisk to your baby and let him try to get the pompoms out.&nbsp; When I did this exercise with Baby T, 7 months, he happily took the whisk from me, looked at it and waved it around.&nbsp; A couple of pompoms fell out.&nbsp; He hit his leg inadvertently with the whisk and a few more fell out.&nbsp; He dropped it at one point, and one or two more fell out.&nbsp; He waved the whisk around, holding it by the wire end and all the rest fell out except for two jumbo pompoms.&nbsp; He did not attempt to pull them out.&nbsp; He just continued waving the whisk around, occasionally mouthing the handle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">I\u2019ll be interested to try this activity with Baby T in a few months.&nbsp; As his fine motor coordination develops, I anticipate that he\u2019ll be more inclined to actually pull the pompoms out of the whisk.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kitchen whisk Pompoms Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Stuff a regular kitchen whisk with pompoms.&nbsp; Show your baby how to pull a pompom out of the whisk.&nbsp; Hand the whisk to your baby and let him try to get the pompoms out.&nbsp; When I did this exercise with Baby T, 7 months, he happily &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/10\/pompom-filled-wsd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pompom-Filled Whisk (for babies 7-12 months)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3016,"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-3015","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\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}