{"id":707,"date":"2021-05-20T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:45:45","slug":"painting-with-q-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/2021\/05\/20\/painting-with-q-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Q-tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-708\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/files\/2021\/05\/9ABE26DF-9AE9-418D-8D5A-D3D140778A79-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/files\/2021\/05\/9ABE26DF-9AE9-418D-8D5A-D3D140778A79-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/files\/2021\/05\/9ABE26DF-9AE9-418D-8D5A-D3D140778A79-253x380.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/files\/2021\/05\/9ABE26DF-9AE9-418D-8D5A-D3D140778A79.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week at Strong Start the children have been painting using Q-tips. \u00a0This activity is great at helping children develop their pincer grasp.<\/p>\n<p>The pincer grasp is the coordination of the index finger and the thumb to hold an item. \u00a0The pincer grasp represents further development of fine motor skills. \u00a0These movements require precise \u00a0control of small muscles in the hand.<\/p>\n<p>Fine motor skills are the foundation that \u00a0will later allow a child to write and use a computer mouse.<\/p>\n<p>So let your children paint away with a variety of objects. \u00a0They love the novelty and it\u2019s also great exercise for growing muscles and minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at Strong Start the children have been painting using Q-tips. \u00a0This activity is great at helping children develop their pincer grasp. The pincer grasp is the coordination of the index finger and the thumb to hold an item. \u00a0The pincer grasp represents further development of fine motor skills. \u00a0These movements require precise \u00a0control &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/2021\/05\/20\/painting-with-q-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Painting with Q-tips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/maywood-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}