{"id":3037,"date":"2018-11-19T23:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2018-11-19T23:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:31:47","slug":"exploring-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/19\/exploring-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nTub of pristine freshly fallen snow<br \/>\n4 or 5 simple items for your baby to grab<br \/>\nBath towel for your baby to sit on<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nWe recently had the first snowfall of the season, and the novelty of it inspired me to introduce snow indoors to Baby C., who is 9 months old.&nbsp; I spread out a bath towel on the floor for Baby C. to sit on and to absorb any melting snow.&nbsp; I also put a few colorful plastic geometric shapes, halfway hidden in the snow to pique Baby C.\u2019s interest.&nbsp; She reached out to touch the snow, then patted it, as if she wasn\u2019t too familiar with the stuff.&nbsp; Then she picked up a small amount and it went right to her mouth, which was not surprising.&nbsp; Babies are very sensory creatures and make connections with their world through touching, smelling, examining closely, hearing and of course, mouthing\/tasting. After Baby C. had tasted some of the snow, she went for the half-hidden shapes, and proceeded to pull them out of the tub and put them into her mouth, licking the snow almost like she would from a spoon.&nbsp; I\u2019ll be interested to try this experience again when it snows, and she\u2019s a little older, to see what she does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tub of pristine freshly fallen snow 4 or 5 simple items for your baby to grab Bath towel for your baby to sit on Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We recently had the first snowfall of the season, and the novelty of it inspired me to introduce snow indoors to Baby C., &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/19\/exploring-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploring Snow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3038,"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-3037","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\/3037","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=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}