{"id":3669,"date":"2019-05-19T02:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2019-05-20T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:50:52","slug":"red-white-and-blue-spiral-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/19\/red-white-and-blue-spiral-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, White, and Blue Spiral Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Light table or horizontal mirror<br>Red dry-erase marker<br>Clear, red, and blue floral stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0<\/strong>Draw a large spiral shape on the light table or mirror with the dry-erase marker.\u00a0 Present your child with a small bowl of the floral stones. Show him how to pick up the stones and place them on the spiral. You can work with the concept of patterning, placing a red, then clear, then blue stone on the spiral, repeating the same sequence to create a pattern. Or you can practice eye-hand coordination, letting your child pick up random stones and placing them next to each other on the spiral. We even observed a little boy counting how many stones he\u2019d lined up. You could extend the counting by asking, How many red stones did you place? How many blue? How many clear?\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing this activity on a light table creates a beautiful work of art! If doing this on a mirror, the reflection adds another dimension to explore and observe. This is a fun activity to set aside when interest wanes and come back to on subsequent days. The children are always intrigued by it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Red-white-blue-spiral-activity-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3672\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Light table or horizontal mirrorRed dry-erase markerClear, red, and blue floral stones Directions:\u00a0Draw a large spiral shape on the light table or mirror with the dry-erase marker.\u00a0 Present your child with a small bowl of the floral stones. Show him how to pick up the stones and place them on the spiral. You can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/19\/red-white-and-blue-spiral-activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red, White, and Blue Spiral Activity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3672,"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-3669","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\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}