{"id":3112,"date":"2018-12-14T03:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:03:40","slug":"christmas-fine-motor-sorting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/12\/14\/christmas-fine-motor-sorting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Fine-Motor\/Sorting Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nTall, clear plastic bottle<br \/>\nChristmas table scatters (from Hobby Lobby)<br \/>\nTray<br \/>\nRag\/washcloth<br \/>\nWater<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nSet up a tray with a rag or washcloth, a sturdy, clear plastic bottle filled with about 2 inches of water, and the table scatters.&nbsp; Make sure the opening of your bottle is big enough to easily accommodate the size of the scatters!&nbsp; (A Voss water bottle is a good option.)&nbsp; Invite your child to pick up the scatters individually (practicing his pincer grasp, which is important for a number of fine motor tasks as he gets older) and drop it into the bottle.&nbsp; The water in the bottle deadens the sound of the scatter hitting the bottom of the bottle and also adds a very engaging element to the activity.&nbsp; Young children love water!&nbsp; When your child is finished adding the scatter to the bottle, dump out the water in the sink, and the scatter on the washcloth.&nbsp; Invite your child to make piles of the different pieces.&nbsp; We sorted red Christmas trees, green Christmas trees, little pieces of holly, and red gems.&nbsp; Then refill the water and let your child do the activity again.&nbsp; I can guarantee he\u2019ll want to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tall, clear plastic bottle Christmas table scatters (from Hobby Lobby) Tray Rag\/washcloth Water Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Set up a tray with a rag or washcloth, a sturdy, clear plastic bottle filled with about 2 inches of water, and the table scatters.&nbsp; Make sure the opening of your bottle is big enough &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/12\/14\/christmas-fine-motor-sorting-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Fine-Motor\/Sorting Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3113,"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-3112","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\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}