{"id":3709,"date":"2019-09-16T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:14:37","slug":"sand-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/09\/16\/sand-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>Large tub of sand or a sandbox<br>Cardboard tubes of various sizes and circumferences (from toilet paper, paper towels, wrapping paper, etc.)<br>Funnels<br>Large spoons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Place the cardboard tubes upright in the sand. We used serving spoons to spoon sand into the tubes.\u00a0We put a funnel in one of the tubes and encouraged the children to see if that made the process more efficient. Apparently it did, since they put the extra funnels in other tubes.\u00a0When a tube was filled with sand, the children picked up the tube and planted it in another spot to fill again.\u00a0This was such a simple activity to set up, but it engaged the children for quite a while!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/09\/Sand-Towers-Maddox-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3718\" width=\"243\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/09\/Sand-Towers-Maddox-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/09\/Sand-Towers-Maddox-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Large tub of sand or a sandboxCardboard tubes of various sizes and circumferences (from toilet paper, paper towels, wrapping paper, etc.)FunnelsLarge spoons Directions:\u00a0\u00a0Place the cardboard tubes upright in the sand. We used serving spoons to spoon sand into the tubes.\u00a0We put a funnel in one of the tubes and encouraged the children to see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/09\/16\/sand-towers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sand Towers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3710,"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-3709","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\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}