{"id":3084,"date":"2018-11-30T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:42:37","slug":"cut-strip-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/cut-strip-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper-Strip Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nGreen construction paper<br \/>\nRed construction paper<br \/>\n1-inch square of brown paper for trunk<br \/>\nScissors<br \/>\nRuler<br \/>\nGlue stick<br \/>\nWhite paint (optional)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nThis activity is a fun way to teach your child the concept of shortest to longest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cut 6&nbsp; 1-inch wide strips from the green paper.&nbsp; Make the first strip 6 inches long, the second&nbsp;strip 5 inches long, the third&nbsp;strip 4 inches, the fourth&nbsp;strip 3 inches, the fifth&nbsp;strip 2 inches, and the sixth&nbsp; strip 1 inch long.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have your child put all the strips on the red sheet of paper.&nbsp; For younger children you may want to draw a triangle on the paper as a guide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask your child to find the longest strip of paper and put that at the bottom of the page.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Now find the shortest strip.&nbsp; Put that at the top of the page.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t glue anything down yet!&nbsp; Look at the four strips that are left.&nbsp; Let your child examine them.&nbsp; Can he find the longest strip of the four?&nbsp; Put that strip just above the longest strip he put down originally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now ask him to find the shortest strip of the three remaining pieces. Put that one under the strip at the top.&nbsp; Now there are two pieces left.&nbsp; The longest of the two goes towards the bottom; the remaining piece goes on top.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now you can help your child adjust the strips so it looks more like a Christmas tree.&nbsp; Starting at the top, use the glue stick to affix the strips to the paper.&nbsp; Glue the brown square to the bottom of the longest strip to make the trunk.&nbsp; If your child is interested, he can dip his pointer finger into white paint to create \u201csnow\u201d on his tree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Green construction paper Red construction paper 1-inch square of brown paper for trunk Scissors Ruler Glue stick White paint (optional) Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This activity is a fun way to teach your child the concept of shortest to longest.&nbsp; Cut 6&nbsp; 1-inch wide strips from the green paper.&nbsp; Make the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/30\/cut-strip-christmas-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paper-Strip Christmas Tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3085,"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-3084","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\/3084","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=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}