{"id":1138,"date":"2011-11-24T02:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:31:12","slug":"its-a-c-its-a-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a C, it&#8217;s a Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Snake doesn&#8217;t begin with the letter C but here&#8217;s a learning exercise in revising shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles and circle), counting, fine motor skills and creativity. Very simple and fast to do with kiddo.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I went about it&#8230;..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kiddo was first asked to draw a short line representing a tiny snake and gradually (with adult&#8217;s help) lengthening it into a full circle on a large piece of paper.<\/li>\n<li>Prepared 8 squares and 4 triangles cut from different coloured paper. Got kiddo to make simple cuts e.g. cutting a square into 2 triangles.<\/li>\n<li>Guided kiddo to paste the shapes onto the previously drawn circle. Got kiddo to count the number of squares, triangles as we went along.<\/li>\n<li>Got kiddo to draw in a head+tongue of a snake on one of the squares.<\/li>\n<li>Made a cut where the head of the snake is and cut out the rest of the snake.<\/li>\n<li>Then &#8216;magically&#8217; folded the snake into 1 single square and watched her &#8216;woah&#8217; moment.<\/li>\n<li>Extended it into various length, shapes like &#8216;C&#8217; and the final &#8216;O-sized&#8217; snake that kiddo had previously drawn.<\/li>\n<li>May want to have sticky tapes at the folds so that it does not tear easily from kiddo&#8217;s handling.<\/li>\n<li>Then let kiddo try the fold or simply let the snake hang round their necks.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7031\/6392402191_ffdd70dd39.jpg\" alt=\"Snake1\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7003\/6392402317_a9179f608f.jpg\" alt=\"Snake2\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7174\/6392402455_f4806f7ace.jpg\" alt=\"Snake3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; <a title=\"DIY Toys\" href=\"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?page_id=9\">Back to DIY Toys<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Snake doesn&#8217;t begin with the letter C but here&#8217;s a learning exercise in revising shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles and circle), counting, fine motor skills and creativity. Very simple and fast to do with kiddo. Here&#8217;s how I went about it&#8230;.. Kiddo was first asked to draw a short line representing a tiny snake and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}