{"id":3075,"date":"2018-11-30T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:47:09","slug":"pipettes-and-green-water-in-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/pipettes-and-green-water-in-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipettes and Green Water in Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nLarge plastic tub to hold the snow<br \/>\nPristine snow<br \/>\nPipettes, or eye droppers<br \/>\nA small, plastic jar for the green water<br \/>\nGreen food coloring<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nSoon after it snows in your area, collect some clean, untouched snow for your plastic tub.&nbsp; If you can\u2019t or don\u2019t want to do this activity right away, you can save the snow in your freezer for later.&nbsp; Fill your small jar with water and mix a few drops of food coloring into the water until it\u2019s green.&nbsp; Put 1 or 2 pipettes in the jar of green water.&nbsp; Show your child how to pinch the bulb of the pipette so that it fills the shaft with green water, and then release it.&nbsp; Then demonstrate picking up the pipette and pinching the bulb again, squeezing the green water into the snow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Using pipettes takes a lot of practice to be successful, and it may take quite a few tries to make it work.&nbsp; Your child is practicing the pincer grip when he pinches the bulb of the pipette.&nbsp; The pincer grip improves his ability to pick up a small object with the thumb and forefinger.&nbsp; The development of a good pincer grip helps your child button, zip, hold a pencil or crayon, or snap a snap on his clothing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Large plastic tub to hold the snow Pristine snow Pipettes, or eye droppers A small, plastic jar for the green water Green food coloring Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Soon after it snows in your area, collect some clean, untouched snow for your plastic tub.&nbsp; If you can\u2019t or don\u2019t want to do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/pipettes-and-green-water-in-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pipettes and Green Water in Snow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3076,"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-3075","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\/3075","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=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}