{"id":3465,"date":"2019-03-30T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:52:14","slug":"threading-practice-pastels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/03\/30\/threading-practice-pastels\/","title":{"rendered":"Threading Practice\u2014Pastels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>Pastel-colored plastic or wooden lacing beads<br>Three bamboo skewers<br>Small block of Styrofoam or floral foam<br>Small tray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions: <\/strong>Push the three skewers into your foam block and set the block on a tray. The skewers don\u2019t have to be the same length. Set a small bowl of beads in front of your child, and invite her to thread beads onto the skewers. Your child is practicing her pincer grip each time she picks up a bead. (The pincer grip is instrumental to other small motor tasks like holding a pencil or zipping a zipper.) This activity also helps develop eye-hand coordination. Our eyes generally direct our hands in the completion of a task. This is a skill children come by naturally, but it takes practice to develop accuracy. That\u2019s why small children know instinctively to hold out their arms to catch a ball, for instance, but they need practice to coordinate their movements to actually catch the ball. Similarly, it takes practice and focus to thread a bead on a skewer.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pastel-colored plastic or wooden lacing beadsThree bamboo skewersSmall block of Styrofoam or floral foamSmall tray Directions: Push the three skewers into your foam block and set the block on a tray. The skewers don\u2019t have to be the same length. Set a small bowl of beads in front of your child, and invite her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/03\/30\/threading-practice-pastels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Threading Practice\u2014Pastels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3466,"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-3465","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\/3465","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=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}