{"id":3604,"date":"2019-05-10T03:09:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T03:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:58:47","slug":"construction-site-in-the-sand-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/10\/construction-site-in-the-sand-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Site in the Sand Table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Large, shallow tub<br>Sand<br>Fist-sized rocks<br>Mini trucks<br>Blocks<br>A scoop\/shovel or two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Opportunities for sand play fascinate and engage young children. Sand lends itself to filling, dumping, molding into shapes (with a little water), measuring, and scooping. We\u2019ve had a generous amount of rain in St. Louis lately, so our outside sandbox has been pretty saturated, which inspired us to bring some of our outside sand exploration inside. We downsized our construction vehicles, added a few \u201cboulders,\u201d a couple of small tree cookies, and let the play begin. It didn\u2019t take long for a bridge to be created, as well as a ramp to get to the bridge.\u00a0Roads were built for the trucks, and some of the trucks even traversed over a pile of boulders! The dump trucks were filled with sand, which was then transported across the sand table. BIG truck sounds were heard! And this activity was as popular with the girls as it was with the boys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We keep a child-size dustpan and brush nearby for easy cleanup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Construction-Site-in-the-sand-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Construction-Site-in-the-sand-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Construction-Site-in-the-sand-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Large, shallow tubSandFist-sized rocksMini trucksBlocksA scoop\/shovel or two Directions:\u00a0\u00a0Opportunities for sand play fascinate and engage young children. Sand lends itself to filling, dumping, molding into shapes (with a little water), measuring, and scooping. We\u2019ve had a generous amount of rain in St. Louis lately, so our outside sandbox has been pretty saturated, which inspired &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/10\/construction-site-in-the-sand-table\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Construction Site in the Sand Table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3605,"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-3604","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\/3604","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=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}