{"id":664,"date":"2017-05-11T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=664"},"modified":"2017-07-13T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:37:52","slug":"stamping-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/05\/11\/stamping-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamping Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Paper<\/p>\n<p>Stamps<\/p>\n<p>Orange Ink Pad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Press rubber stamps onto an orange ink pad and create a simple pattern on the top half of a piece of paper.&nbsp;Ask your child to help you recreate the pattern on the bottom of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>For toddlers, allow them to just explore with the stamps.&nbsp;Once they have had the opportunity to practice the art of stamping, then start with one stamp and ask you toddler to find the stamp that you used, and make a stamp directly underneath the stamp that you made.&nbsp;&nbsp;Add a second stamp and encourage your child to recreate your simple pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Preschool children will enjoy extending your pattern and generating their own.&nbsp;Gradually increase the level of difficulty, working up to creating patterns using 3-4 different shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Paper Stamps Orange Ink Pad &nbsp; Directions Press rubber stamps onto an orange ink pad and create a simple pattern on the top half of a piece of paper.&nbsp;Ask your child to help you recreate the pattern on the bottom of the paper. For toddlers, allow them to just explore with the stamps.&nbsp;Once they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/05\/11\/stamping-patterns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stamping Patterns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}