{"id":3069,"date":"2018-11-30T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:38:42","slug":"green-window-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/green-window-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Window Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nContact&nbsp; paper<br \/>\nMasking tape<br \/>\nA variety of green lightweight collage materials\u2014short pieces of green yarn, small cut-up pieces of green construction paper, green feathers, green foam pieces, green stickers, green cut-up straws, green tissue paper, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nPull the backing from a piece of contact paper and tape it securely to a flat surface, sticky side up, with the masking tape.&nbsp; We used a window. Set a container of green items in front of your child. &nbsp;Demonstrate that the contact paper is sticky by taking your child\u2019s hand and pressing his\/her fingers on the paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pick up a green item and show your child how to press it on the contact paper.&nbsp; Give your child something green and encourage him\/her to stick it up.&nbsp; It may take a few tries to get the idea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve found that younger children (under 12 mos.) like to pull items off the contact paper as much as they like to put them on!&nbsp; Either way, your child is exercising those fine-motor muscles, practicing skills of persistence and focus, and having fun doing it!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Contact&nbsp; paper Masking tape A variety of green lightweight collage materials\u2014short pieces of green yarn, small cut-up pieces of green construction paper, green feathers, green foam pieces, green stickers, green cut-up straws, green tissue paper, etc. Instructions&nbsp; &nbsp; Pull the backing from a piece of contact paper and tape it securely to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/green-window-collage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Window Collage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3070,"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-3069","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\/3069","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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}