{"id":977,"date":"2018-08-28T21:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=977"},"modified":"2018-08-30T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:23:31","slug":"beads-on-a-wooden-skewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/28\/beads-on-a-wooden-skewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Beads on a Wooden Skewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/09\/skewer2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-979\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/09\/skewer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/09\/skewer2.jpg 221w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/09\/skewer2-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Great fine motor work &#8211; practicing eye\/hand coordination and strengthening the pincer grasp!<\/p>\n<h4>Materials<\/h4>\n<p>1 wooden skewer<br \/>\n1 piece of floral styrofoam&nbsp;<br \/>\nPlastic beads in a small container<br \/>\nDice<\/p>\n<h4>Directions<\/h4>\n<p>Place the wooden skewer into the piece of styrofoam. &nbsp;Invite your child to place beads onto the skewer. &nbsp;For an added challenge, provide 1-2 dice. &nbsp;The child rolls the dice, counts the number of dots, and places that corresponding number of beads on the skewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great fine motor work &#8211; practicing eye\/hand coordination and strengthening the pincer grasp! Materials 1 wooden skewer 1 piece of floral styrofoam&nbsp; Plastic beads in a small container Dice Directions Place the wooden skewer into the piece of styrofoam. &nbsp;Invite your child to place beads onto the skewer. &nbsp;For an added challenge, provide 1-2 dice. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/08\/28\/beads-on-a-wooden-skewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beads on a Wooden Skewer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":978,"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-977","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\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}