{"id":639,"date":"2020-04-21T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/?p=639"},"modified":"2020-04-21T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:23:12","slug":"tools-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/2020\/04\/21\/tools-tuesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love to use everyday tools and materials found around the house to work on fine motor skills.\u00a0 Today we are going to use the classic kitchen tongs to promote hand strength, object manipulation and motor coordination.\u00a0 It is a great activity to prepare our little ones for the use of scissors.\u00a0 Use tongs to pick up pompoms, Legos, small bath toys and put them in or take out of containers.\u00a0 You can even add some water for the bath toys because most kids love to add in the water play!\u00a0 How about cooking up some spaghetti and have your child practice picking up the spaghetti with the tongs and placing it a bowl.\u00a0 They might also want to do some sensory play with spaghetti using their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/pompom-tongs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/pompom-tongs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/pompom-tongs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/water-toy-tongs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/water-toy-tongs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/water-toy-tongs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/spaghetti-tongs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/spaghetti-tongs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/spaghetti-tongs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to use everyday tools and materials found around the house to work on fine motor skills.\u00a0 Today we are going to use the classic kitchen tongs to promote hand strength, object manipulation and motor coordination.\u00a0 It is a great activity to prepare our little ones for the use of scissors.\u00a0 Use tongs to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/2020\/04\/21\/tools-tuesday-2\/\">&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}