{"id":3040,"date":"2018-11-19T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:38:17","slug":"spaghetti-threading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/19\/spaghetti-threading\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaghetti Threading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nBall of brown play dough<br \/>\nA few pieces of uncooked spaghetti<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3043 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Spaghetti-Threading-Beckett-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Spaghetti-Threading-Beckett-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Spaghetti-Threading-Beckett-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nChocolate Cheerios<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nMake a ball of brown play dough to act as a base for the spaghetti.&nbsp; Insert the spaghetti pieces securely into the play dough.&nbsp; You can break the spaghetti so that some pieces are shorter than others.&nbsp; Show your child how to thread a piece of the cereal onto the spaghetti and push it down to the bottom.&nbsp; Our rule is that if you come across a piece of broken cereal, you have to eat it!&nbsp; (But plenty will get consumed even without the rule!)<\/p>\n<p>This is a great fine-motor skill, and requires both hands to be successful.&nbsp; And using the chocolate cereal makes it a fulfilling activity for your child!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ball of brown play dough A few pieces of uncooked spaghetti Chocolate Cheerios Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Make a ball of brown play dough to act as a base for the spaghetti.&nbsp; Insert the spaghetti pieces securely into the play dough.&nbsp; You can break the spaghetti so that some pieces are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/19\/spaghetti-threading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spaghetti Threading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3041,"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-3040","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\/3040","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=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}