{"id":3568,"date":"2019-05-04T03:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2019-05-06T03:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:39:52","slug":"q-tip-fine-motor-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/04\/q-tip-fine-motor-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Q-tip Fine-Motor Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>A plastic jar with an insert with holes in it<br>Q-tips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions: <\/strong>Present the jar you\u2019ve chosen to your little one. Show him the holes in the insert. (I used a jar that originally had sprinkles in it. Just make sure the holes in the top are big enough to accommodate the Q-tips.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrate how to insert a Q-tip into the jar. Give your child a Q-tip and invite him to try. Encourage him as he focuses on inserting the Q-tip. Give him the time to put all the Q-tips in the jar, but watch for signs that indicate it\u2019s too difficult a task. I offered this activity to a 12-month-old child who loved putting the Q-tips in the jar. Another child, who was 15 months old, found it too complex a task and wanted to mouth the Q-tips. If your child is not interested, wait a few weeks and try again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A plastic jar with an insert with holes in itQ-tips Directions: Present the jar you\u2019ve chosen to your little one. Show him the holes in the insert. (I used a jar that originally had sprinkles in it. Just make sure the holes in the top are big enough to accommodate the Q-tips.) Demonstrate how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/04\/q-tip-fine-motor-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Q-tip Fine-Motor Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3569,"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-3568","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\/3568","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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}