{"id":3301,"date":"2019-02-14T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T05:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:35:32","slug":"pink-and-lavender-rice-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/02\/14\/pink-and-lavender-rice-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink and Lavender Rice Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>A large, shallow plastic container<br>Enough uncooked rice to fill your tub about an inch deep<br>Pink and lavender scoops, cups, and bowls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Children of all ages love to explore rice at the rice table.\u00a0We like to color ours, but it\u2019s not necessary\u2014white rice is fun, too!\u00a0(If you need directions  on how to color the rice, see the blog post \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/02\/14\/hunting-for-hearts\/\">Hunting for Hearts<\/a>\u201d\u00a0in which I&#8217;ve explained how to do it.\u00a0It\u2019s easy!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rice is a wonderful sensory material.\u00a0It\u2019s relatively inexpensive,\u00a0 doesn\u2019t leave residue on children\u2019s hands, is easy to sweep up, is soothing to run one\u2019s fingers\u00a0through, and is calming to work with.\u00a0Children love to scoop it up, fill containers with it, dump it out, and do it again.\u00a0They make connections with and explore concepts of weight and volume.\u00a0And it can be used over and over again.\u00a0Store your rice in a plastic container with a tight-fitting lid.\u00a0 It will keep for years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A large, shallow plastic containerEnough uncooked rice to fill your tub about an inch deepPink and lavender scoops, cups, and bowls Directions:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Children of all ages love to explore rice at the rice table.\u00a0We like to color ours, but it\u2019s not necessary\u2014white rice is fun, too!\u00a0(If you need directions on how to color the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/02\/14\/pink-and-lavender-rice-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pink and Lavender Rice Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3302,"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-3301","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\/3301","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=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}